Damocles

Damocles['dæməkli:z]

• n.【希腊、罗马民间传说】达摩克利斯(叙拉古暴君迪奥尼修斯的诌臣，常领颂国王多福，受国王之命坐在一丝头发或细线悬挂的剑下饮酒，使他领略帝王之福的危险实质)
• 短语:
  • a(或the)sword of Damocles 达摩克利斯剑(喻指临头的危险，传说叙拉古暴君迪奥尼修斯邀达摩克利斯饮宴时在其头顶用细线悬一出鞘之剑，以表示大权在握者常朝不保夕，正如达摩克利斯当时之处境)[见sword]

• deferred sentence
• geostrategy
• opium den
• elfishness
• re-traced
• libertarianisms
• opacimeter
• inoxidizable
• adrenalectomies
• yel
• get round sth
• personal pronoun
• intromits
• aristophaness
• ballet slipper
• dextroglucose
• lie at someone's heart
• bass response
• equiangular polygon
• silverer
• carbon number
• rawalpindis
• bid whist
• accusatories
• femininenesses
• chippies
• postage-stamp
• expense accounts
• invertase
• not give sth a second glance / look
• clamantly
• economizeer
• market orders
• poor farm
• hypnodrama
• donicker
• dharmsalas
• eusporangiate
• Hamill, Dorothy
• southern house mosquito
• meliorater
• unbolted
• rotational quantum number
• eat the bread of affliction
• dilapidator
• leachability
• Nipponese
• interpreter
• hypericum
• Real Gases
• onion-dome
• lank
• greennesses
• register breadth
• pheresis
• switch sth↔over
• principle （或law）of parsimony
• dupable
• be made for
• metatonic
• edifications
• cross-modal
• deckle strap
• organismic sensing
• quietuses
• extratheistic
• dress-ups
• primordias
• causativeness
• greenhead
• Great White Way
• cosiness
• decimalized
• minas
• make good cheer
• Coleps
• short of (doing) sth
• forehand
• fused electrolyte
• oklahomans
• dadoing
• preorgasmic
• make (one's) peace
• grave-goods
• monosymptomatic
• chyme
• give the battle
• afford promise
• at a time
• stoop crop
• legioned
• photosensitivities
• bunk off
• compilatory
• bowerwomen
• Pacific province
• hydrogenized
• forbidder
• stenoky
• toggeries