PHRASE 达摩克利斯之剑;随时可能发生的危险 If you say that someone has the Sword of Damocles hanging over their head, you mean that they are in a situation in which something very bad could happen to them at any time.
As a Grand Prix driver, you have the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head at every moment. 作为国际汽车大奖赛的车手,随时都有可能发生事故。
As a Grand Prix driver, you have the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head at every moment. 作为国际汽车大奖赛的车手,随时都有可能发生事故。
The threat, hanging like the sword of Damocles over the head of the members, was meant to get their attention. 评级下调威胁就如同达摩克利斯之剑悬在成员国的头顶,意在引起相关国家的注意。
The students 'next goal is to be enrolled in a university. The college entrance examination is like a sword of Damocles. 这些学生的下一个目标便是考上大学。高考就像是一把达摩克里斯的利剑高悬的这些学生头上。
It is a sword of Damocles hanging over our heads and it is a fantastic handicap against our only competitor [ Boeing] in commercial aircraft. 这是悬在我们头上的达摩克利斯之剑,面对商用飞机方面的唯一竞争对手(波音),这是一大障碍。
Damocles loved wealth and pleasure and envied the life of his master. 他沉湎酒色.醉心财富,妒忌其主人的生活。
A senior French official said the plan, which has backing from the European Commission in Brussels as well as several other eurozone countries, was a way of "removing the Damocles sword of default" while keeping pressure on Athens to reform. 一位法国高官表示,该方案得到了布鲁塞尔欧盟委员会(europeancommission)和其他几个欧元区国家的支持,是一条“取下违约的达摩克利斯之剑”、同时对希腊保持改革压力的途径。
The possibility of being made redundant has been a sword of Damocles hanging over me for several months now. 裁员的可能性好几个月来一直使我大难临头的危险。
And so, the next day, Damocles was led into the palace, and all the servants were bidden to treat him as their master. 于是第二天,达摩克里斯就被带进了宫殿。所有的仆人都遵照命令,把他当作主人看待。
Unemployment, like the sword of Damocles, was always accompanying the workers. 失业犹如达摩克里斯剑,随时都在威胁着工人。
The newspaper reported that the army was very discontent and that this was a sword of Damocles hanging over the government. 报纸上报道说军队有不满情绪,因此这是一把悬在政府头上的达摩克里斯剑。
The Latin American debt, overhanging American banks like the sword of Damocles ( Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.) 拉丁美洲的债务,犹如达摩克利斯剑一样威胁着美国诸银行(孝瑟M.施莱辛格)
Bertram: It is. I've had the sword of Damocles hanging over me for months, and now I can finally relax. 伯群:没错,我已经提心吊胆好几个月了,现在终于可以放轻松了。
These bills now hang over people like the Sword of Damocles. 现在这些债务就像达摩克利斯之剑一样悬在人们头上。
The likelihood of lay-offs has been a sword of Damocles over the department for months. 部门可能要裁员的消息让这几个月来每个人都提心吊胆。
Today, peace and development have become the prevailing trend, but the world is far from tranquil. War is the sword of Damocles that still hangs over mankind. 今天,和平与发展已经成为时代主题,但世界仍很不太平,战争的达摩克利斯之剑依然悬在人类头上。
Article 306 of criminal law indicates restrictions of the right to criminal defense and discriminations to the defense so that it has been likened to the Damocles Sword which threatens to the defending lawyers at any moment. 刑法第306条是对刑事辩护权的限制和对律师职业的歧视,它被形象地称为悬在辩护律师头上的一把达摩克利斯之剑。
In addition, the 306 item of "crime arising from the vindicator, lawsuits agent's participation in fraudulence of evidences" defined in the state's criminal law has become the "sword of Damocles" over the head of lawyer. 而刑法第306条规定的“辩护人、诉讼代理人帮助伪造证据罪”更是悬在律师头上的“达摩克利斯之剑”。
Perjury, the Sword of Damocles, put China's lawyers in a dilemma 对于像律师这样的聪明人来说,绕开职业陷阱也并非易事,伪证这个悬在头顶上的达摩克利斯之剑让转轨时期的中国律师行业面临两难
As the most serious threat in the human society, nuclear war is just like a Damocles Sword always hanging above the earth. 作为人类社会面临的最大威胁,核战争犹如达摩克利斯之剑始终悬于地球之上。
However, video-sharing websites are faced with copyright problems since the inception. The copyright issues have become "Sword of Damocles" to the websites developments. 然而,白视频分享网站诞生以来,就一直面临版权问题的困扰,版权问题成为伴随其发展的达摩克利斯之剑。
The magic of the assessment of student academic achievement makes the assessment become the sword of Damocles to schools, teachers, students and parents. 为什么需要促进学习的课堂评价结果处理?学生学业成就评价的魔力,就像悬挂在学校、教师、学生和家长头上的达摩克利斯之剑。
The Damocles sword of science and technology brought tremendous pleasure in giving the material life to the people, while brought the pople innumerable affliction from the serious deformities constrain to the unbridled development. 从严重畸形地被压抑到放肆地发展,科学技术这柄达摩克里斯剑在给人们物质生活带来无限快感的同时,也给人们带来了无尽的痛苦。
The current imbalance of economic interests in China, is not only the obstacle to economic development, but also is "the sword of Damocles", as a treatment to social harmony and stability. 当前我国经济利益关系失衡,不仅是生产力提升和经济发展的阻碍,而且是一柄威胁着社会和谐稳定的达摩克利斯之剑。