Pyrrhic
英 ['p?r?k]
美 ['p?r?k]
- n. 抑抑格；出征舞
- adj. 抑抑格的；出征舞的；付出極大代價(jià)而獲得的
英文詞源
- Pyrrhic (adj.)
- 1885 (usually in phrase Pyrrhic victory), from Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, who defeated Roman armies at Asculum, 280 B.C.E., but at such cost to his own troops that he was unable to follow up and attack Rome itself, and is said to have remarked, "one more such victory and we are lost."
- pyrrhic (n.)
- "dance in armor" (1590s), also a type of metrical foot (1620s), from Latin pyrrhicha, from Greek pyrrikhe orkhesis, the war-dance of ancient Greece, traditionally named for its inventor, Pyrrikhos. The name means "reddish," from pyrros "flame-colored," from pyr "fire," from PIE root *pa?wr- "fire" (see fire (n.)). As an adjective from 1749.
雙語例句
- 1. My only point is that it has been a Pyrrhic victory.
- 我惟一的想法是,他們?yōu)榇烁冻隽藨K重的代價(jià),未免得不償失.
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- 2. I know , just because it was a Pyrrhic victory for them.
- 這次勝利對(duì)他們而言實(shí)在是得不償失.
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- 3. Sadly, it was a pyrrhic victory.
- 不過, 這次勝利代價(jià)不斐.
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