| 单词 | achilles heel |
| 释义 | Achilles heelor Achilles' heelSEE SYNONYMS FOR Achilles heel ON THESAURUS.COM nouna portion, spot, area, or the like, that is especially or solely vulnerable: His Achilles heel is his quick temper. Origin of Achilles heelFirst recorded in 1800–10 Words nearby Achilles heelachilary, Achill, achillea, Achilles, Achilles bursa, Achilles heel, Achilles jerk, Achilles reflex, Achilles tendon, Achilles tendon reflex, Achill Island Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for Achilles heelAchilles heel nouna small but fatal weakness Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with Achilles heelAchilles' heel A fatal weakness, a vulnerable area, as in This division, which is rarely profitable, is the company's Achilles' heel. The term alludes to the Greek legend about the heroic warrior Achilles whose mother tried to make him immortal by holding the infant by his heel and dipping him into the River Styx. Eventually he was killed by an arrow shot into his undipped heel. [c. 1800] 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 Achilles heelAchilles' heel [ (uh-kil-eez) ] A point of vulnerability. (See Achilles.) 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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