Pyrrhicの意味・使い方・発音

Pyrrhic

英 ['pɪrɪk] 美 ['pɪrɪk]

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.

1. My only point is that it has been a Pyrrhic victory.: 私の唯一の考えは、彼らがそのために多大な代価を払っていることであり、得も得も得もしないということだ。

2.I know,just because it was a Pyrrhic victory for them.: この勝利は彼らにとって本当に得られたものではない。