cross the Styx

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To die. humorous,intransitive,literary
    — The following day Nigel apologized for what he described as an unhappy domestic interlude. “Marietta tells me that you are going to come over every day until . . . I cross the Styx.” I heard him chuckle. “Jolly nice of you, old boy.”

词形变化

crosses the Styx present,singular,third-person crossing the Styx participle,present crossed the Styx participle,past crossed the Styx past

词源

From Greek mythology, after Styx, a river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld, over which the ferryman Charon transports the souls of the newly dead. See Styx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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