Charybdis
基本解釋
- n.[希神]卡律布迪斯（希臘神話中該亞與波塞冬的女兒，荷馬史詩中的女妖）
英漢例句
- Pete would have preferred to be on good terms with both his wife and his mother, but the effort of pleasing one without offending the other was like steering between Scylla and Charybdis.
彼得何嘗不想跟妻子和母親都和睦相處呢，可是他試圖討得一方歡心而不致觸怒另一方的努力就像在拉巖石礁和卡律布狄斯大旋渦之間行舟一樣，真是左也不得，右也不行。