Pyrrhic victory

Word family adjectivePyrrhicnounPyrrhic victory

Pyr·rhic vic·to·ry /ˌpɪrɪk ˈvɪktəri/ noun [countableC]

SUFFERWINa victory in which the person who wins suffers so much that the victory was hardly worth winning 以极大代价换取的胜利，得不偿失的胜利

Examples from the Corpus

Pyrrhic victory• It may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory.• The triumph of postmodernism, at least in the west, has been a Pyrrhic victory.• This was indeed a Pyrrhic victory, because West Indies cricket was assuredly the loser.• I raised a stink about it and got my seat back, but it was a Pyrrhic victory.• My only regret is that he didn't turn up at court to watch his Pyrrhic victory.

Origin Pyrrhic victory

(1800-1900) Pyrrhus (312?-272BC), Greek king whose army defeated the Romans but had very many killed and wounded

单词	Pyrrhic victory
释义	Pyrrhic victory Word family adjectivePyrrhicnounPyrrhic victory Pyr·rhic vic·to·ry /ˌpɪrɪk ˈvɪktəri/ noun [countableC] SUFFERWINa victory in which the person who wins suffers so much that the victory was hardly worth winning 以极大代价换取的胜利，得不偿失的胜利 Examples from the Corpus Pyrrhic victory• It may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory.• The triumph of postmodernism, at least in the west, has been a Pyrrhic victory.• This was indeed a Pyrrhic victory, because West Indies cricket was assuredly the loser.• I raised a stink about it and got my seat back, but it was a Pyrrhic victory.• My only regret is that he didn't turn up at court to watch his Pyrrhic victory. Origin Pyrrhic victory (1800-1900) Pyrrhus (312?-272BC), Greek king whose army defeated the Romans but had very many killed and wounded
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