A female sea monster who devoured sailors when they tried to navigate the narrow channel between her cave and the whirlpool Charybdis. In later legend Scylla was a dangerous rock, located on the Italian side of the Strait of Messina.
Used to refer to a situation involving two dangers in which an attempt to avoid one increases the risk from the other.
斯库拉和卡律布狄斯（指处于两种危险的境遇，想要避免一种危险，另一种危险就会增加）；进退维谷
the difficulty is to navigate between the Scylla of authoritarian taste and the Charybdis of slop
Example sentencesExamples
Racing down the straight, under the railway bridge, knocking my shins against Scylla and Charybdis, I make it to the end.
Ah, the joys of being a late Boomer in middle-age, caught between Scylla and Charybdis.
With software that asked voters to confirm their choices, the new machinery, it was thought, would avoid the Scylla and Charybdis of over-votes and under-votes.
Sceptics about musical meaning tend to regard these alternatives under the sign of Scylla and Charybdis, as formidable dangers nearly impossible to avoid.
So most US voters think things are going really well, when in fact the CPA is piloting between Scylla and Charybdis.
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Definition of Scylla in US English:
Scylla
proper nounˈsɪləˈsilə
Greek Mythology
A female sea monster who devoured sailors when they tried to navigate the narrow channel between her cave and the whirlpool Charybdis. In later legend Scylla was a dangerous rock, located on the Italian side of the Strait of Messina.
Used to refer to a situation involving two dangers in which an attempt to avoid one increases the risk from the other.
斯库拉和卡律布狄斯（指处于两种危险的境遇，想要避免一种危险，另一种危险就会增加）；进退维谷
Example sentencesExamples
Racing down the straight, under the railway bridge, knocking my shins against Scylla and Charybdis, I make it to the end.
With software that asked voters to confirm their choices, the new machinery, it was thought, would avoid the Scylla and Charybdis of over-votes and under-votes.
Ah, the joys of being a late Boomer in middle-age, caught between Scylla and Charybdis.
Sceptics about musical meaning tend to regard these alternatives under the sign of Scylla and Charybdis, as formidable dangers nearly impossible to avoid.
So most US voters think things are going really well, when in fact the CPA is piloting between Scylla and Charybdis.