Achilles Heel 阿奇里斯的脚跟
Best fighter of the Greeks besieging Troy in the Trojan War. When the hero Odysseus journeyed to the Underworld to seek the advice of the dead prophet Teiresias, he encountered the shade of Achilles. This hero had slain the Trojan hero Hector in single combat and had himself been brought down only by the connivance of Apollo. The god guided the arrow of Hectors brother Paris to the only vulnerable spot on Achilles body - his heel.
Achilles would not have been vulnerable even in this part of his body had his mother, the sea-goddess Thetis, been allowed to protect him as she intended. When he was an infant, she rubbed him each day with godly ambrosia, and each night she laid him upon the hearth fire. Unfortunately, Achilles father was unaware that this procedure would make his son immortal. And when he unexpectedly came home one night to find his wife holding their baby in the flames, he cried out in alarm. Thetis was offended and returned to her father, the Old Man of the Sea, leaving Achilles to his mortal fate.
Another version of the myth has Thetis attempting to protect her infant by dipping him in the river Styx. The infernal waters indeed rendered Achilles skin impervious to the likes of any mere Trojan arrow. But Thetis forgot that she was holding him by the heel during the dipping process, so that part was unprotected.
希腊神话里有一位鼎鼎有名的人物,名为阿奇里斯。这位希腊英雄骁勇善战,最厉害的是全身刀枪不入,只有脚跟是他的唯一弱点.阿奇里斯的父母,就是《是非之果》里的珀琉斯和忒提斯。阿奇里斯在襁褓中的时候,被母亲倒提着放进地府的冥河里,浸出了一身铜皮铁骨,不过脚跟因为被母亲抓在手里,浸不到河水,於是成为他的死穴。
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