Pyrrhic怎么读
音标：英 ['pɪrɪk]
美['pɪrɪk]
Pyrrhic是什么意思
- n. 抑抑格；出征舞
- adj. 抑抑格的；出征舞的；付出极大代价而获得的
英文词源
- 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 *paəwr- "fire" (see fire (n.)). As an adjective from 1749.
Pyrrhic的双语例句
- 1. My only point is that it has been a Pyrrhic victory.
- 我惟一的想法是,他们为此付出了惨重的代价,未免得不偿失.
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- 2. I know , just because it was a Pyrrhic victory for them.
- 这次胜利对他们而言实在是得不偿失.
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- 3. Sadly, it was a pyrrhic victory.
- 不过, 这次胜利代价不斐.
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