icarus

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A proper noun from Greek mythology referring to the son of Daedalus who, while escaping from Crete with his father using wings made of wax and feathers, flew too close to the sun, causing the wax to melt, and fell into the Aegean Sea where he drowned.

• 🇨🇳希腊神话中的人物，代达罗斯之子；他与父亲用蜡和羽毛制成的翅膀逃离克里特岛时，因飞得离太阳太近，蜡翼融化，坠入爱琴海溺亡。常象征狂妄自大、过分冒险而招致失败。

1. Mythological figure B2 formal

   In Greek mythology, the son of the master craftsman Daedalus. He escaped from Crete using wings made of feathers and wax, but flew too close to the sun, causing the wax to melt, and he fell into the sea and drowned.

   • The story of Icarus serves as a warning against overambition.
   • Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high or too low.
   • Icarus ignored his father's advice and plummeted into the Aegean Sea.

   🇨🇳伊卡洛斯

2. Symbol of overambition C1 informal

   A person who is destroyed by their own excessive ambition or recklessness.

   • The entrepreneur was an Icarus, flying too high on risky investments.
   • He became an Icarus of the tech world, crashing after his hubris.
   • The novel's protagonist is a modern Icarus, doomed by his own pride.

   🇨🇳过度野心的象征

• icaruses plural form
• icaruses' possessive plural form
• icarus's possessive singular form