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,未免得不償失。
Those who defeated the senate ' s immigration bill won a pyrrhic victory 那些使參院提案失敗的人勝利是得不償失的。
Gretchen ' s unexpected win over the tournament ' s top player proved a pyrrhic victory ; in the effort , she reinjured her shoulder 戈瑞特在頂級選手巡回賽出人意料的勝利被證明是得不償失的,在比賽中,她的肩部再次受傷。
He proved his point by exposing malpractices by the directors , but it was a pyrrhic victory because they made him redundant immediately afterwards 他以揭露董事們利用私權(quán)職權(quán)營私舞弊的行為證明他的論點,不過那是付出極在代價而得到的勝利,因為后來他們很快就裁減了他。
Mr murdoch has , however , paid a high price for dow jones ? at least $ 1 billion , and perhaps $ 2 billion , more than appears justified by the fundamentals of the business ? so news corporation ' s shareholders may come to regard his victory as pyrrhic 不過,默多克先生為收購道瓊斯支付了高價? ?比商業(yè)基本準則認為的合理價格至少高出10億美元,或許是20億美元? ?因此,新聞集團的股東們或許會將此視作代價慘重的勝利。
英文解釋
an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare
a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables 同義詞:dibrach,
of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans); "a Pyrrhic victory"
of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables; "pyrrhic verses"
of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece; "pyrrhic dance movements"
百科解釋
A pyrrhic is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. It consists of two unaccented, short syllables.