scylla / ˈsɪl ə /
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scylla 的定义
n. 名词 noun- Modern name Scilla. a rock in the Strait of Messina off the S coast of Italy.
- Classical Mythology. a sea nymph who was transformed into a sea monster: later identified with the rock Scylla.Compare Charybdis.
更多scylla例句
- “Bernanke was actually an exception,” says Richard Scylla, the eminent New York University financial historian.
- Meanwhile many ordinary Egyptians will find themselves back at square one, caught between Scylla and Charybdis.
- Yes; and rather easy in avoiding Scylla to fall into Charybdis.
- But escaping Scylla she fell into Charybdis; her uncanny practices came to the ears of the authorities, and she was apprehended.
- It is the part of fools to fall upon Scylla in striving to avoid Charybdis.
- The ancients would have represented it as a sea-monster with open jaws, more terrible than Scylla and Charybdis.
- The channel remains to-day just as it ever did, with Scylla and Charybdis presiding over their rocks as of old.