Accumulation of famous foreign allusions

Sword of Damocles? ，? The mystery of the sphinx? ，? Achilles' Heel These are allusions commonly used in our writing process. Below I have compiled more famous allusions for you. Let's read them together. 1. Pandora's box: Pandora is the first earthly woman in Greek mythology. After Prometheus stole skyfire from the world, Zeus, the Lord God, ordered God to make a beautiful young girl out of clay and named her? Pandora? , meaning? A woman with all the gifts? . And gave her a gift box, and then betrothed her to Prometheus' brother Epimetheus (meaning? After knowing? )。 Epimetheus took the gift box regardless of taboos, and Pandora took the opportunity to open it, so all kinds of bad habits, disasters and diseases immediately flew out of it. There is only one beautiful thing left in the box: hope. But before hope could fly out, Pandora closed the box forever. ? Pandora's box? It is used as a metaphor for the root cause of disasters.

2. Sword of Damocles: Damocles is a favorite of the tyrant Dionis Theseus in Greek mythology. He often says that emperors are blessed to please them. On one occasion, Dionis Hughes let him sit on the throne of the emperor, with a sword tied with only a horsehair hanging on his head, to tell him that although he is on the throne, the sword may fall at any time, and the emperor is not blessed, but there is always worry. People often use this allusion to describe a potential crisis that may occur at any time.

3. Muse: Muse is the general name of nine goddesses of literature and science in Greek mythology. They are all daughters of the Lord and the goddess of memory. They are headed by Apollo, the god of music and poetry, and are in charge of history, tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, dance, epic, love poetry, ode and astronomy respectively. Poets and singers in ancient Greece called to the Muse for inspiration. Later, people often use it? Muse? It is a metaphor for literature, writing and inspiration.

4. Mystery of the Sphinx: The Sphinx is a monster in Greek mythology that harms people with hidden mysteries, and he is the largest sphinx before pyramid of khufu in Egypt. The question he asked Oedipus was: What walks on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon and three feet at night? Oedipus replied: it is a person. In the morning of life, he was a child, crawling on two legs and two hands; At the noon of his life, he became a mature man and walked with only two legs; In the evening of his life, he was old and weak, and had to walk with crutches, so he was called three feet. Oedipus got it right. Sphinx fell off a cliff in shame and died. ? The mystery of the sphinx? It is often used as a metaphor for complex, mysterious and incomprehensible problems.

5. Pygmalion: Pygmalion is the king of Cyprus in Greek mythology. He hated women and decided never to get married. He carved a beautiful ivory statue with magical skills and fell in love with her. He caressed her like his wife, dressed her up, and begged God to let her be his wife. Aphrodite, the god of love, was moved by him, gave life to the statue and married them. ? Pygmalion effect? Later it was used in educational psychology, also known as? Expectation effect? Or? Rosenthal effect? It is a metaphor that teachers have different expectations for students, different methods are applied to them, and students are affected differently.

6. Judas' Kiss: Judas is one of the 12 disciples of Jesus Christ's cronies in the Bible. Although Jesus preached the new way, it was supported by the people, but it aroused the hatred of the Jewish elders and priests. They bought Judas with 3 silver coins and asked him to help identify Jesus. When they went to Kemani Garden to catch Jesus, Judas pretended to greet him, hugged and kissed him. Jesus was immediately arrested and later crucified. People use it? Judas' kiss? Metaphor is shameful betrayal.

7. Noah's Ark: From the Bible. God was very sad about the sins committed by mankind and decided to destroy mankind with floods. Noah was an upright man, and God told him to build a ship to avoid disaster. After 4 days and nights of floods, all other creatures except Noah's family and some animals were swallowed up by the floods. Later used as a metaphor for a refuge or savior in a disaster.

8. Eden: from the Bible. God opened a garden in a fertile plain in the east, with fruit trees and all kinds of birds and animals. God asked Adam to watch the garden. To relieve his loneliness, God took a rib from Adam and made a woman? Eve came to accompany him. They live a carefree life. People use the Garden of Eden as a metaphor for a paradise on earth.

9. forbidden fruit: from the bible. Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden, and God allowed them to eat the fruits of the garden, except? Know the tree of good and evil? The fruit on the table is inedible. The cunning snake lured them to eat the forbidden fruit. From then on, they learned good and evil, distinguished the true from the false, and felt ashamed. God therefore expelled them from the Garden of Eden. Forbidden fruit is a metaphor for what is forbidden and desired.

1. Dominoes, a western game. Many rectangular dominoes are arranged vertically in a row. When the first card is gently pushed down, the other dominoes will fall down one after another. When used figuratively, Domino effect? Often refers to a series of chain reactions, that is? Pull one hair and move the whole body? .

11. The ivory tower comes from the letter "To veerman" written by the 19th century French poet and literary critic Saint Pevey Charlie Augustine. Augustine criticized the pessimism and negativity in the works of the contemporary French writer Winnie the Pooh, and advocated that the writer should break away from the vulgar bourgeois reality and enter an artistic world of subjective fantasy? The ivory tower. ? Ivory tower? It is used to describe the dreamland of isolation.

12. Utopia, which originated from Greek ou (nothing) and topos (place), means? Utopia? . In his book Utopia, British utopian socialist Moore described a beautiful society he longed for, where all the means of production are owned by the whole people, daily necessities are distributed according to work, everyone is engaged in productive labor, and there is plenty of time for scientific research and entertainment. There are no hotels, brothels, depravity and sin. Utopia is used to describe an unattainable ideal or a utopian society.

13. Platonic love, also known as Platonic love, is a kind of spiritual love named after Plato, a western philosopher, who pursues spiritual communication and rejects sensuality. Rational, spiritually pure love. Plato thought:? When the mind abandons the body and yearns for the truth, then the thought is the best. When the soul is infected by the sin of the body, people's desire to pursue truth will not be satisfied. When human beings have no strong demand for carnal desire, their mood is peaceful. Carnal desire is the expression of animal nature in human nature and the nature of every organism. People are so-called higher animals because human nature is stronger than animal nature, and spiritual communication is beautiful and moral. ?