scylla

/sil-uh/US // ˈsɪl ə //UK // (ˈsɪlə) //

镰刀,镰刀鱼,镰刀型,镰刀形

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : 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.

“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.