Greek Tantalos, king of Phrygia, perhaps literally "the Bearer" or "the Sufferer," by dissimilation from *tal-talos, a reduplication of PIE root *tele- "to bear, carry, support" (see extol), in reference to his long endurance, but Watkins finds this "unlikely." Compare tantalize.
实用例句
1. Descended from Tantalus , Agamemnon inherited the curse of the gods on the family.
作为坦塔洛斯的后人,阿伽门农不得不承受众神加诸这个家族的惩罚.
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2. What say you to that torture of Tantalus as applied to a mother?
