hercules's choice是什么意思

Hercules' choice：转译为宁可吃苦,不愿享乐 toil and duty chosen in preference to ease and pleasure—from a famous story in Xenophon's Memorabilia The Choice of Hercules," invented by the sophist Prodicus (ca. 400 B.C.E.), Hercules was visited by two nymphs - Pleasure and Virtu...

hercules task在英语里来比喻非常艰难的任务。以make herculean efforts 来形容巨大的努力。hercules' choice 现在英语指代永垂不朽。原因是他在VIRTUE美德之神和 PLEASURE欢愉之神之间,选择了美德,美德之神保证他能永生,最后通过hercules的努力,他永生了,成了天上的武夫星座。Achilles' heel 中文为阿基利斯脚踵。英语用来...