Pyrrhic

['pɪrɪk]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare.

(noun.) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables.

(adj.) of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans); 'a Pyrrhic victory' .

(adj.) of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables; 'pyrrhic verses' .

(adj.) of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece; 'pyrrhic dance movements' .

手打:特伦斯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pyrrhic, or to pyrrhics; containing pyrrhic; as, a pyrrhic verse.

(n.) An ancient Greek martial dance, to the accompaniment of the flute, its time being very quick.

(n.) A foot consisting of two short syllables.

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解釋/意思:

n. a kind of war-dance among the ancient Greeks: a poetical foot consisting of two short syllables.—adj. pertaining to the dance or to the poetical foot.—n. Pyr′rhicist one who dances the pyrrhic.

adj. of or pertaining to Pyrrhus king of Epirus (318-272 B.C.).—Pyrrhic victory a victory gained at too great a cost in allusion to Pyrrhus's exclamation after his victory of Asculum (279) 'Another such victory and we are lost!'

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