因此 “Pandora’s box”指的就是“装满各种灾难的盒子”。现在这个词的意思已经演变为 “a source of extensive but usually unforeseen troubles or difficulties”，英语中这种用法最早出现在16世纪后期。例如，近期的《纽约时报》中有这样一句话：The return of professional figure skaters to Olympic competition has exposed a Pandora’s box of problems that the sport’s antiquated system of categorizing and judging skaters cannot handle.
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