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词组 sword of Damocles
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sword of Damocles an imminent danger.

☞ When the courtier Damocles described Dionysius I, ruler of Syracuse (405–367bc), as the happiest of men, Dionysius gave him a graphic demonstration of the fragility of his happiness: he invited Damocles to a banquet, in the middle of which he looked up to see a naked sword suspended over his head by a single hair.

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