Scylla

常见例句

A whirlpool off the Sicilian coast, personified as a ship-devouring sea monster and located opposite the cave of Scylla.
卡律佈狄斯漩渦西西裡海岸附近的一個漩渦，位於希拉洞穴的對麪，被擬人化爲一個吞噬船衹的海怪
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処呢，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佈狄斯大鏇渦之間行舟一樣，真是左也不得，右也不行。