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Pandora’s box潘多拉的盒子
Zeus wanted to take revenge on Prometheus, so he sent Pandora as a gift to Epimetheus. Pandora opened a box, which Prometheus had warned Epimetheus to keep closed. All the miseries and evils flew out to plague mankind.
Today, it refers to the origin if evil. And opening Pandora’s box means to create evil that cannot be undone.
Charon’s boat/ferry卡戎的船
Crossing the river Styx god, Charon is saying in the river Styx, is responsible for ferrying the souls of the dead across the water to the farther bank, where stands the adamantine gate to Tartarus. Charon will receive into his boat only the souls of those under whose tongue the passage money- a coin- was placed when they died and who were duly buried.
The Elysian Fields 乐土
Elysium ruled over by Cronus. It is a happy land of perpetual day, without cold or snow, where games, music, and revels never cease, and where the inhabitants may elect to be reborn on earth whenever they please.
It means a very comfortable place or paradise that virtuous people will go after death.
Midas’/Ass’s ears驴耳朵
One day, Pan and Apollo compared their music. Midas was a faithful follower of Pan. So everybody agreed with the result of Apollo won except Midas. Apollo was very angry and let Midas’ ears transform to ass’s ears.
It means making improper or horrible comments.
The Golden Touch 点石成金
King Midas helped Bacchus’ old schoolmaster and foster-father, Silenus. Midas asked a reward that whatever he might touch should be changed into gold. Later, he was starving to death as all food he touched also turned into gold. Finally, he begged Bacchus to remove his power.
Today, it refers to be able to perform wonders or make a lot of money quickly.
Cut the Gordian Knot 快刀斩乱麻
King Gordius dedicated his wagon to the oracle and tied it up in its place with a fast knot. It was said that whoever should untie should become lord of all Asia. No one succeeded but Alexander who drew his sword and cut the knot. At last he succeeded in subjecting all Asia.
Today, it refers to solve a complicated difficulty by quick and drastic action; to end a difficult by using a vigorous or violent method; to solve a problem by force.
Pygmalion 皮革马利翁
Pygmalion was a sculptor, he had made with wonderful skill a statue of ivory and fell in love with the counterfeit creation. With the help of Aphrodite the statue become alive and married Pygmalion.
Today, when a teacher is considered as Pygmalion in class, it means the students have great space to improve their intelligence. The more expectation the teacher have, the more clever students are.
The Apple of Discord 不和的苹果
Eris, the only goddess who was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. She burst in and threw among the guests the apple of discord, inscribed “for the fairest”. This apple was claimed by three goddesses, Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite and they can’t reach an agreement only after the judgment of Paris.
It means the root of the trouble.
Achilles’ heel 阿喀琉斯的脚踵
Achilles’ mother, Thetis, had wanted to make her son immortal, and when he was a baby she had taken him down into the Underworld and dipped him into the waters of the River Styx; this made his body impervious to injury, except for the heel by which she held him, and it was here that the arrow struck.
Today, it refers to the fatal weakness or vulnerable point.

The Trojan Horse 特洛伊战争
In the Trojan War, the Greek pretended to retreat, leaving a huge wooden horse. A party of the boldest Greeks climbed into it and rest hide on a island to waited. Trojan drag the great horse within their walls, pulling down their fortification in order to do so after hearing the story of Sinon’s. At night, Greeks sacked Troy and gained a great success finally.
Today, it refers to be cautions of the gift from enemy or a laying ambush. Learn to combine the forces inside and outside to stroke enemy.
Oedipus Complex 恋母情结
Oedipus was abandoned by his natural parents when he was an infant because his father was warned by an oracle that there was danger to the throne and life if he grow up. After many years, he killed his father and married his mother. When he know the truth, he tore out his eyes and wandered away from Thebes.
Today, it refers to boys who rely on and love their mothers and hate their fathers before six years old.
Riddle of Sphinx 斯芬克斯之谜
Sphinx was a monster that had the body of lion and the upper part of a woman. It lay crouched on the top of a rock, and arrested all travelers who came that way, proposing to them a riddle, with the condition that those who could solve it should pass safe, but those who failed should be killed. No one succeed except Oedipus. The Sphinx was so mortified at the solving of her riddle that she cast herself dawn from the rock and perished.
Today, it refers to the complex and mysterious problem that difficult to solve.
Electra Complex 恋父情结
Clytemnestra was the wife of Agamemnon, she loved another man, Aigisthus. And then, she killed her husband. Her children