a famous battle in 480 BC; a Greek army under Leonidas was annihilated by the Persians who were trying to conquer Greece
Thermopylae 例句
英汉例句
The first of the two ships to reach Java after the face had begun was the Thermopylae but on the Indian Ocean, the Cutty Sark took the lead.
比赛开始后,「塞姆皮雷号」率先抵达爪哇岛,但在印度洋上,「卡蒂萨克号」驶到了前面。
This may be true, but the anecdote looks suspiciously like Herodotus' s story of Ephialtes, who showed the Persian king Xerxes a road to circumvent Thermopylae in 480.