Damocles
US'dæmək'li:z
معنی فارسی
داموکلس
معنی کامل و مثالها
/dam´ǝ klēz´/
● (اسطورهی یونان و روم) داموکلس (شخص عیاشی که او را بر صندلی نشاندند و شمشیری را که بر مویی آویخته بود بالای سرش قرار دادند)
* sword of Damocles
خطر قریبالوقوع
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
From the story of Damocles in Greek mythology, who was forced to sit under a sword suspended by a single hair to understand the constant fear in which his king lived.
مثال
- He lived like Damocles, with the threat of investigation hanging over him.
- The Damocles of debt hangs over many households.
- The threat of nuclear war is a Damocles that hangs over the world.
ترکیبهای رایج
Damocles of debt Damocles of war Damocles of climate change
تعریف انگلیسی
noun
- 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)