【字面理解】達蒙和皮西厄斯 true friendship
【中文解析】莫逆之交,生死之交
【典型例句】① It is only through hardship and disasters that a friendship of Damon and Pythias can manifest itself.只有 經(jīng)過困苦和災(zāi)難,一種生死不移的友情才能表現(xiàn)出來。
② The Damon and Pythias of the establishment were Damon and Pythias no longer. They were ifeady to fly each at the other’s throat.
—The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope
這家公司的兩位生死之交已經(jīng)再也稱不上莫逆了,他 們已經(jīng)成了不共戴天的仇人了。
——安東尼?特羅洛普《三個辦事員》
【注釋】達蒙(Damon)和皮西厄斯(Pythias)是好朋友, 皮西厄斯出了事被判死刑,為了使他回家探視親人, 達蒙留在監(jiān)牢里做人質(zhì),如果皮西厄斯不按時返回, 就處死達蒙。結(jié)果當(dāng)限期已到,臨行刑之前,皮西厄 斯及時趕回。國王深受感動,將兩個人全部釋放。后 來,Damon and Pythias被用來表示“生死之交”。