the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC)
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The college entrance examination is like a sword of Damocles.高考就像是一把达摩克里斯的利剑高悬的这些学生头上。
