| 单词 | pandora's box |
| 释义 | Pandora's boxSEE SYNONYMS FOR Pandora's box ON THESAURUS.COM nouna source of extensive but unforeseen troubles or problems: The senate investigation turned out to be a Pandora's box for the administration. Origin of Pandora's boxFirst recorded in 1570–80 Words nearby Pandora's boxpandit, P. and L., P & O, pandora, Pandorae Fretum, Pandora's box, pandora shell, pandore, pandour, pandowdy, p & p Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Idioms and Phrases with Pandora's boxPandora's box A source of unforeseen trouble, as in Revising the tax code is opening a Pandora's box. This equivalent for the modern can of worms comes from the Greek legend in which Pandora, entrusted with a box containing the world's ills, is overcome by curiosity and opens it, thereby releasing them. [Late 1500s] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Cultural definitions for Pandora's boxPandora's box In classical mythology, a box that Zeus gave to Pandora, the first woman, with strict instructions that she not open it. Pandora's curiosity soon got the better of her, and she opened the box. All the evils and miseries of the world flew out to afflict mankind. notes for Pandora's boxTo “open a Pandora's box” is to create an uncontrollable situation that will cause great grief. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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