But one of the most famous is the Greek story of Scylla and Charybdis.
其中最著名的就是希腊神话中的" 锡拉与卡律布狄斯" 。
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" I am between Scylla and Charybdis, " he wrote.
“我介于锡拉和卡律布狄斯之间,”他写道。
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Scylla is the personification -- the human representation of a non-human thing -- of sharp rocks and other objects along the coast. Scylla destroyed ships that came too close.
In Greek mythology, Scylla (/ˈsɪlə/SIL-ə; Greek: Σκύλλα, pronounced[skýl̚la], Skylla) was a monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite its counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait were within an arrow's range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too close to Scylla and vice versa.
(Greek mythology) a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait; drowned and devoured sailors who tried to escape Charybdis (a whirlpool) on the other side of the strait