Achilles heel

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /əˌkɪl.iːz ˈhiːl/    美 /əˌkɪl.iːz ˈhiːl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A vulnerability in an otherwise strong situation.
    — A good all-round golfer, playing out of bunkers is my Achilles heel.
  2. The Achilles tendon, the tendo Achillis.

词形变化

Achilles heels plural Achilles' heel alternative

词源

From the Greek hero Achilles, whom according to legend his mother held by the heel when she dipped him in the River Styx, making him invulnerable everywhere except on his heel. He was later killed by an arrow wound to the heel. Although the legend is ancient, the phrase only entered English in the 19th century. It is used as a metaphor for vulnerability, as in the earliest citation, an essay by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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