英语词汇as mad as ajax的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	as mad as ajax
词源	as mad as Ajax. The words allude to the old story that Ajax, a hero of the Trojan War, disappointed at being awarded only Achilles’ armor, went mad and attacked a flock of sheep, which he mistook for a hostile army. Both Sophocles and much later Shakespeare wrote of the tragedy.
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