潘多拉的盒子
pān​duō​lā​de​hé​zi

Pandora's box

  • created sense approved 潘多拉的盒子 · pān​duō​lā​de​hé​zi · Pandora's box — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    潘多拉的盒子

    pān​duō​lā​de​hé​zi

    Pandora's box

    a source of many unforeseen and unexpected troubles; a process that once begun generates many complicated problems

    潘多拉 (phonetic) → 潘多拉 · pān​duō​lā · Pandora 的 (bound) → 的 · de · [possessive/attributive] 盒子 (literal) → 盒子 · hé​zi · box

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense