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Could you tell me something about 'Pandora'?
2008년 12월 5일 오전 2:35
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Pandora's box > is an idiom to describe that doing a certain action will cause lots of random problems. e.g. america going to war with iraq is basically opening pandora's box. actually america went to war with iraq 2 times and so the 1st time it may have been pandoras box but the 2nd time they knew exactly what to expect. Idioms like this are useful to know because they describe many things in 2 words.
2008년 12월 5일
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Pandora's box and idiom and so on all come from an ancient Greek legend. Prometeus and Epimeteus were two brother half-gods; the first had the skill of foresight (his name means "the one who knows before"), while the second was actually a bit stupid and vaguely understood things only later after they were happened (his name means "the ones who knows after"). Prometeus protected humans and had given them fire, so that they could develop their society, cheating Ephestus/Volcano (the god of fire) and – what's most serious – the supreme god Zeus/Jupiter. To get revenged of him and the whole human kind, Zeus ordered the goddesses to create a woman so much beautiful and charming as much curious and silly; she was named Pandora ("all made of gifts") and she was given a ceramics closed box containing all humans cares, pains, worries, sorrows, calamities and so on. Then she was sent to Epimeteus, who immediately fell in love with her and took her as his wife. Now imagine a curious silly woman with a mysterious closed box and only stupid Epimeteus to look after her. Obviously after some days she opened the box, and suddenly all the calamities inside came out and quickly invaded the world of humans... luckily clever Prometeus had felt such a trick and came just in time to close the box and leave the hope alone in. The conclusion has been differently interpreted through times: some say it means humans got all calamities and were deprived of hope, other say hope is the only thing humans conserved.
2008년 12월 6일
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Pandora is the 1st woman to the world...Pandora' box is what can bring disaster 2 us~
2008년 12월 5일
Do you mean the internet music station? I don't think that it works outside of the US
2008년 12월 5일
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