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
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- : a source of extensive but unforeseen troubles or problems: The senate investigation turned out to be a Pandora's box for the administration.
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“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.