潘多拉的盒子“涌多拉”是希腊神话中的第一个女性。普罗米修斯盗火给人类后,主神宙斯为了报复,就命令火神用黏土做成美女潘多拉,送给普罗米修斯的兄弟厄庇墨透斯做妻子。潘多拉貌美性诈,私自打开宙斯让她带给厄庇墨透斯的一只盒子,盒子里装的疾病、疯狂、罪恶、嫉妒等祸患一齐飞了出来,只有希望留在盒底,使人间从此充满了各种灾祸。后来,人们在写文章时就常用“潘多拉的盒子”这一典故比喻灾祸的来源。 Pandora’s box “Gyong Dora” is the first woman in Greek mythology. After Prometheus threw fire to humans, Zeus, the Lord God, commanded Vulcan to make the beautiful Pandora with clay, and the brother of Prometheus, Epimetheus, as his wife in order to retaliate. Pandora beautifully swindled and secretly opened a box that Zeus had asked her to bring to Epimetheus. The illnesses, madness, sins, blasphemy and other scourges that came out of the box flew out. They only wished to remain at the bottom of the box. Since then, it has been filled with various kinds of disasters. Later, when people wrote articles, they used the “Pandora’s box” as a metaphor for the source of disaster.