英语词汇pyrrhic victory的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Pyrrhic victory. After he defeated the Romans at the battle of Asculum in 279 b.c., losing the flower of his army in the ac- tion, King Pyrrhus remarked, “One more such victory and we are lost.” Other versions of his immortal words are, “One more victory and I am undone,” and “Another such victory and I must return to Epirus alone.” Pyrrhus had come to Italy with 25,000 troops two years before when Tarentum asked him to help organize resistance against the Romans, but after Ascu- lum and several other battles he returned to the kingdom of Epirus in northwest Greece with only 8,000 men. The great warrior, a second cousin of Alexander the Great, never did live to revive the conqueror’s empire as he had hoped. He died in 272 b.c., aged 46, during a night skirmish in a street in Argos—fatally struck by a tile that fell from a roof—his name only commemorated by the phrase Pyrrhic victory, a victory in which the losses are so ruinous that it is no victory at all.

词汇	pyrrhic victory
词源	Pyrrhic victory. After he defeated the Romans at the battle of Asculum in 279 b.c., losing the flower of his army in the ac- tion, King Pyrrhus remarked, “One more such victory and we are lost.” Other versions of his immortal words are, “One more victory and I am undone,” and “Another such victory and I must return to Epirus alone.” Pyrrhus had come to Italy with 25,000 troops two years before when Tarentum asked him to help organize resistance against the Romans, but after Ascu- lum and several other battles he returned to the kingdom of Epirus in northwest Greece with only 8,000 men. The great warrior, a second cousin of Alexander the Great, never did live to revive the conqueror’s empire as he had hoped. He died in 272 b.c., aged 46, during a night skirmish in a street in Argos—fatally struck by a tile that fell from a roof—his name only commemorated by the phrase Pyrrhic victory, a victory in which the losses are so ruinous that it is no victory at all.
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