源自莎士比亞作品的10個(gè)常用短語(yǔ)

9. Dogs of War: 戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的恐懼之處

How Shakespeare used it:

In Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1, a grief-stricken Mark Antony predicts that the instability following Caesar's murder will result in civil war: "Cry 'havoc!' And let slip the dogs of war!"

("Cry havoc" was the military order for soldiers to seize plunder from an enemy.)

莎士比亞原文：在《凱撒大帝》第3幕第1場(chǎng)中，悲傷過(guò)度的馬克?安東尼預(yù)言稱，凱撒大帝被謀殺后的不穩(wěn)定局勢(shì)會(huì)導(dǎo)致內(nèi)戰(zhàn)：“下令搶劫！讓戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的恐懼溜走吧！”（Cry havoc是軍隊(duì)中的命令用語(yǔ)，指下令讓士兵從敵人手中搶掠。）

現(xiàn)代例句：

"If you doubt that Obama is about to let slip the dogs of war, you need only look back at what he said as a long-shot presidential hopeful in a controversial August 2007 foreign policy speech." — James Gordon Meek, New York Daily News, May 10, 2010