Styx

[stiks]

(noun.) (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls.

编辑:斯坦利--From WordNet

(n.) The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.

手打:洛伊斯

The terrors and horrors of Cocytus and Styx, ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarean nomenclature, must vanish. 柏拉图. 理想国.
Down the sable flood we glided, I thought of the Styx, and of Charon rowing some solitary soul to the Land of Shades. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
Strange, and desolate above all things, like disembarking from the Styx into the desolated underworld, was this landing at night. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

手打:兰斯洛特