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Damocles

/'dæmәkli:z/

📖 中文释义

  1. n. 达摩克利斯
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
  1. n. the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC)