希腊习语(Greek idioms)

希腊习语（

Greek idioms

）

Idioms and allusions from Greek mythology

1. Achilles' heel's only fatal weakness

Achilles

is

usually

translated

as

is

a

famous

Greek

epic

(legend

for

the

Greek

poet

Homa)

mainly

Greek

hero.

Achilles young girl by his mother Sitis (Thetis) upside down

in

the

river

Styx

(Styx)

in

water

soaked

body,

invulnerability,

but its heel (Heel) for the hand, not soaked with water, and

thus

became

the

only

back

to

the

injured

and

even

fatal

weakness.

Troy Achilles war, heroic, invincible. However, the sun god

Appollo

(Apollo)

knew

the

weakness

of

Achilles

and

revealed

it

to Prince Troy, Paris. Paris aligned Achilles heel shot a

poisoned arrows, Achilles eventually because of wounded and

died.

According to the story,

as

Achilles Heel.

Examples:

The,

girl,

is,

a,

good,

student,

but,

pronunciation,

is, her, Achilles, heel.

The girl is a good student, but pronunciation is his only

weakness.

His, Achilles, heel, was, his, pride, he, would, get, very,

angry,, if, anyone, criticized, work.., his

His only fatal weakness was pride; he was angry at anyone who

criticized his work.

A, misbehaving, minister, is, as, a, government, s, Achilles,

regarded, heel, and, is,, expected, to, resign.

A

badly behaved

minister was seen

as a

government fatal,

so

he

was asked to resign

2., Horn, of, plenty/abundance (Amalthea, s, Horn / horn, of,

plenty), horn of abundance: symbol of abundance

In allusion to the ancient Greek mythology. Jose (Zeus) after

birth, the mother Rhea (Rhea) was afraid of his father Cronus

(Cronus/Cronos)

are

swallowed,

and

hid

him

in

a

cave

in

Crete,

and entrusted to the Amar tayohya (Amalthea) support. Al Mart

milk he used to support Asia (Monday al Mart Asia my mother is

a

goat,

she

used

her

milk

feeding

Jose).

The

goat

broke

a

corner,

she was in the corner filled with flowers and fruit for Jose.

Later

Jose

overthrew

his

father's

reign,

become

the

king

of

the

gods, Amar offers and the horns to heaven this is a treasure.

Horns,

who

owns

it,

to

what

to

what,

it

is

regarded

as

the

symbol

of wealth and inexhaustible fertility. It is called

sometimes also for Amalthea.

Example:

Nature,

very,

oddly,

when,

the,

horn,

of,

plenty,

is,

quite,

empty,

babies.,

always,

fills,

it,

with,

strange

to

say,

when nature does not give enough grain, it often leaves more

babies

3.,

Midas,

touch,

the

ability

to

make

a

lot

of

money;

the

ability

to make money everywhere

In allusion to the ancient Greek legend. There is a country

called West Central Asia Minor Phrygian (Phrygia), King Midas

(Midas) covet wealth, wanted to become the richest man in the

world. Dionysus (Dionysus) grateful to Midas for his former

teacher's

help,

Midas

all

promised

to

meet

a

Midas

request.

Pray

for

God

to

grant

him

the

golden

point

of

the

spell.

After

that,

he fulfilled the alchemy everywhere he appeared in gold, all

things into gold. However, not only stones into gold, flowers

and house furnishings, even food and drink, and even his most

beloved

daughter

became

gold.

Finally,

he

had

to

ask

God

to

lift

his touch. Dionysus then let him to Parker TORO J (Pactolus)

River

to

take

a

bath,

in

order

to

recover

his

magic,

everything

is back to normal. According to this story, people The Midas

touch refers to the ability to make big money and the ability

to

make

money

everywhere.

The

phrase

is

often

used

with

the

verb

例：鲍伯是一个商人银行家和真的有点石成金的。

鲍博是一位商业银行家，很懂得生财之道。

他所有的公司都是非常有利的。他有点石成金的本领。

他所有的公司盈利甚丰。他有赚大钱的本领。

4

。在奥萨难上加难山堆，高了又高

典出希腊神话。

海神波塞东

（波塞冬）

有两个孙子

（一说孪生儿子）

，

名叫鄂托斯

（

OT U

）

和俄菲阿尔特斯

（

ephialthes

）

，

合 称阿洛伊代

（阿

洛伊代）

。他们身材十 分高大，自幼力大无比。为了登上天堂向天后

赫拉（

Hera< /p>

）和狩猎女神阿尔特密斯（

Artemis

）求爱，他们试图把

伯利翁山（山）垒到奥萨山（

Ossa< /p>

）上。可是未等他俩动手，他们便

被太阳神阿波罗杀掉了，

计划终未实现。

后人用山堆在奥萨一语表示”

难上加难”或”高了又高”。此语亦作堆山

Ossa

。

例：要求我管理部门和教满工作量的课程是 在

Ossa

山堆。要求我管

理这个系， 并教满工作量的课程，这是难上加难。

5

。“一刀切”逼人就范之物；讲求一致的制度（或政策等）

典出古希腊神话。相传在雅典附近有一个著名大盗名叫< /p>

Procrustes

（普罗克拉斯提斯）

。他身材高大，凶残异常。他在路旁开设黑店，

拦截过往行人。他特制了两张床，一长 一短，强迫劫来的旅客躺在铁

床上，腿短者睡长床，拔之使与床齐长，体长者睡短床，以 利斧截其

下肢，故人称之为”铁床匪”。后来，希腊英雄忒修斯（特修斯）奉