Damocles
英 ['dæməkli:z]
美
- n. 达摩克利斯（叙拉古暴君迪奥尼修斯的诌臣）
英英释意
- 1. 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)