英语词汇cut the gordian knot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cut the Gordian knot. The workman Gordius of old was chosen king of Phrygia when he fulfilled an oracle’s prophecy that the first man to approach the temple of Jupiter driving a wagon would rule the land. King Gordius dedicated his wagon to the god and tied it to a temple beam with a knot of cornel bark so baffling that another oracle declared that the man who untied it would become lord of all Asia. Enter Alexander the Great, whose hopes lie in that direction. “Well then it is thus I perform the task,” says the Conqueror, drawing his sword, and he simply cuts the knot in two. The whole tale is improbable, scholars say, although Gordium, ancient Phrygia’s capital, had been named for Gordius, the father of King Midas. But a Gord- ian knot remains an intricate problem and to cut the Gordian knot still means “to solve a baffling problem by a single bold and incisive act.”

词汇	cut the gordian knot
词源	cut the Gordian knot. The workman Gordius of old was chosen king of Phrygia when he fulfilled an oracle’s prophecy that the first man to approach the temple of Jupiter driving a wagon would rule the land. King Gordius dedicated his wagon to the god and tied it to a temple beam with a knot of cornel bark so baffling that another oracle declared that the man who untied it would become lord of all Asia. Enter Alexander the Great, whose hopes lie in that direction. “Well then it is thus I perform the task,” says the Conqueror, drawing his sword, and he simply cuts the knot in two. The whole tale is improbable, scholars say, although Gordium, ancient Phrygia’s capital, had been named for Gordius, the father of King Midas. But a Gord- ian knot remains an intricate problem and to cut the Gordian knot still means “to solve a baffling problem by a single bold and incisive act.”
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