因此 “Pandora’s box”指的就是“裝滿各種災難的盒子”。現在這個詞的意思已經演變為 “a source of extensive but usually unforeseen troubles or difficulties”，英語中這種用法最早出現在16世紀后期。例如，近期的《紐約時報》中有這樣一句話：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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