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pandora's box

潘多拉的盒子,潘多拉魔盒,潘多拉之盒,潘多拉的箱子

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a source of extensive but unforeseen troubles or problems: The senate investigation turned out to be a Pandora's box for the administration.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • “A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.

  • “Personal hotspots can get speeds of up to 60 Mb/s down, whereas hotel Wi-Fi can be as slow as 1.5 Mb/s,” Sesar said.

  • In response to the screen quota cut, South Korea established a “cinema tax” on the box office.

  • He goes into some detail into what it took to persuade voters to pass marriage equality at the ballot box in four states in 2012.

  • How to Train Your Dragon 2, the tenth highest grossing movie in 2014 America, made $22 million at the Korean box office.

  • Beside her was a box of bonbons, which she held out at intervals to Madame Ratignolle.

  • Now and then the boy who had bought Squinty, and who was taking him home, would look around at his pet in the slatted box.

  • The little pig in the box felt himself being lifted out of the wagon.

  • Mrs. Newbolt was cutting splints for her new sun-bonnet out of a pasteboard box.

  • With a hammer the boy knocked off some of the slats of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey.