pyrrhic / ˈpɪr ɪk /

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pyrrhic2 个定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. consisting of two short or unaccented syllables.
  2. composed of or pertaining to pyrrhics.
n. 名词 noun
  1. Also called dibrach. a pyrrhic foot.

更多pyrrhic例句

  1. However, considering how acrimonious the road to the resolution was, the settlement raises the question of who actually won the pyrrhic victory and what does that mean for the future of connected TV distribution deals.
  2. It's a pyrrhic symbolic victory that could actually be causing extra environmental damage.
  3. This will be a war of attrition and a Pyrrhic and Camdean Victory for myself.
  4. Legislators are no longer thinking ahead even as far as the next election; all their focus is on the next Pyrrhic victory.
  5. But Howard Kurtz says it could prove a pyrrhic victory that could threaten his second-term agenda.
  6. However, if that is all that isaccomplished, it will be a Pyrrhic victory.
  7. Pyrrhic, pir′ik, n. a kind of war-dance among the ancient Greeks: a poetical foot consisting of two short syllables.
  8. The weak feet are those which have the most short syllables or end in a short syllable; as the Pyrrhic, the Trochee, the Tribrach.
  9. Here the measure and melody are perfect; the period closing with three Iambics, preceded by a Pyrrhic.
  10. Do not be so imbecile as to believe that your garden will be hailed upon, if you have missed dancing the pyrrhic or the cordax.
  11. The figures of our losses made the Somme a Pyrrhic victory, and there was troubled wonder where the new drafts were to be found.