Scylla and Charybdis如何读

英：[ˌsɪlə ənd kəˈrɪbdɪs]

美：[ˈsɪlə ənd kəˈrɪbdɪs]

Scylla and Charybdis是什么意思

n.

（前面与between连用）腹背受敌，进退两难

Scylla and Charybdis英英释义

noun

in Homer's Odyssey, two monsters threatening to sailors, later identified as a rock and a whirlpool in the sea off the coast of Sicily.

Scylla and Charybdis 例句

1 He between Scylla and Charybdis, for his company had betrayed him.

他的同伴背叛了他,至使他腹背受敌.

2 Pete would have preferred to be on good terms with both his wife and his mother, but the effort of pleasing one without offending the other was like steering between Scylla and Charybdis.

彼得何尝不想跟妻子和母亲都和睦相处呢，可是他试图讨得一方欢心而不致触怒另一方的努力就像在拉岩石礁和卡律布狄斯大旋涡之间行舟一样，真是左也不得，右也不行。

Scylla and Charybdis 同义词

1 进退两难

quandary between a rock and a hard place caught between a rock and a hard place on the horns of a dilemma stuck between a rock and a hard place

2 进退维谷

on the horns of a dilemma

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