pyrrhic victory
US /ˈpɪrɪk ˈvɪktəri/
・UK /ˈpɪrɪk ˈvɪktəri/
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n.名詞大きな犠牲を伴う勝利
They won the battle, but it was a pyrrhic victory due to heavy losses.
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- Um, it's some sort of a Pyrrhic victory, as one of my colleagues, uh, uh, put it, because every time the regime manages to, to, to crush a re-resistance and uprising, the cost is higher.
その通りです。
- It's some sort of a Pyrrhic victory, as one of my colleagues put it, because every time the regime manages to crush a resistance and uprising, the cost is higher, it's discredited, the number of casualties grow, the tools of repression are there, but
同僚の一人が言ったように、それは一種の犠牲を伴う勝利です。なぜなら、政権が抵抗や蜂起を鎮圧するたびに、その代償は高くなり、信用は失われ、犠牲者の数は増え、弾圧の手段は存在するからです。