From the headline of this article at the Japan Times.
上記の文で、pyrrhic victory の意味は?
In the sentence above, what does "pyrrhic victory" mean?
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解答
意味:英辞郎によると、
犠牲が多くて引き合わない勝利◆エピラス(Epirus)のピュロス(Pyrrhus)王がローマ軍と戦った。なお、下記英語の説明にあるようにpyrrhic自体に形容詞として「犠牲が多くて引き合わない」の意味があります。
Answer
According to Merriam-Webster:a victory that is not worth winning because so much is lost to achieve itIt should be noted that pyrrhic can be used with a similar meaning by itself. According to Merriam-Webster:
- achieved at excessive cost
- also: costly to the point of negating or outweighing expected benefits
Etymology/語源
Online Etymology Dictionaryによると、1885年から。紀元前280年にエピラス(Epirus)のピュロス(Pyrrhus)王がローマ軍と戦って勝利したが、自軍の犠牲があまりにも大きくその後にローマを攻めることが不可能となったことから。
According to Online Etymology Dictionary:
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....
Examples
- It's a pyrrhic symbolic victory that could actually be causing extra environmental damage.
- This will be a war of attrition and a Pyrrhic and Camdean Victory for myself.
- Legislators are no longer thinking ahead even as far as the next election; all their focus is on the next Pyrrhicvictory.
- But Howard Kurtz says it could prove a pyrrhic victory that could threaten his second-term agenda.
- However, if that is all that is accomplished, it will be a Pyrrhic victory.
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