古希腊人为了夺回被特洛伊王子帕里斯带走的海伦，率领大军把特洛伊城整整围困了十年，却怎么也攻不下这座城墙坚固的城市。眼看强攻无望，足智多谋的奥德修斯想出了一条妙计：造一匹巨大的木马，让士兵藏在里面，然后佯装撤军离开，把木马留在城外当作"献给特洛伊的礼物"。

To reclaim Helen, who had been taken away by the Trojan prince Paris, the ancient Greeks besieged the city of Troy for ten long years, yet could never break through its formidable walls. With brute force clearly hopeless, the resourceful Odysseus devised a clever scheme: build a giant wooden horse, hide soldiers inside it, then pretend to retreat and leave the horse outside the city as a "gift to Troy."

特洛伊人为这份"礼物"欢呼雀跃，不顾祭司拉奥孔"小心希腊人的礼物"的警告，硬是把木马拖进了城墙之内。当夜，藏在木马里的希腊士兵悄悄爬出，打开城门，城外的大军一拥而入。从此，"特洛伊木马"这个说法流传至今，用来形容那些看起来人畜无害、实则暗藏危险的东西——就连今天电脑里的"木马病毒"，名字也是从这里来的。

The Trojans celebrated this "gift," ignoring the priest Laocoön's warning to "beware of Greeks bearing gifts," and hauled the wooden horse inside the city walls. That night, the Greek soldiers hidden inside quietly climbed out, opened the gates, and the waiting army poured in. Ever since, the phrase "Trojan horse" has been used to describe something that looks harmless but secretly conceals danger — even today's computer "Trojan virus" takes its name from this very story.

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