He would have preferred to be on good term with both his wife and his mother, but the effort of pleasing one without offending the other was like steering between Scylla and Charybdis.

• （他本愿和妻子与母亲都处好关系，但要讨好一方而不得罪另一方简直就如同驾船在斯库拉和卡律布狄斯之间航行，两面为难。）