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pyrrhic 音标拼音: [p'ɪrɪk] n. 出征舞,抑抑格
a. 出征舞的,抑抑格的 出征舞,抑抑格出征舞的,抑抑格的 pyrrhic adj 1: of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece; " pyrrhic dance movements" 2: of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables; " pyrrhic verses" 3: of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits ( especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans); " a Pyrrhic victory" n 1: a metrical unit with unstressed- unstressed syllables [ synonym: { pyrrhic}, { dibrach}] 2: an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfarePyrrhic \ Pyr" rhic\, n. 1. [ Gr. ?: cf. F. pyrrhique, fem.] An ancient Greek martial dance, to the accompaniment of the flute, its time being very quick. [ 1913 Webster] 2. [ L. pyrrhichius ( sc. pes), Gr. ? ( sc. ?): cf. F. pyrrhique, masc.] ( Pros.) A foot consisting of two short syllables. [ 1913 Webster]
Pyrrhic \ Pyr" rhic\, a. [ L. pyrrhichius, Gr. ? belonging to the ? ( sc. ?) a kind of war dance.] 1. Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance. " ye have the pyrrhic dance as yet." -- Byron. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Pros.) Of or pertaining to a pyrrhic, or to pyrrhics; containing pyrrhic; as, a pyrrhic verse. [ 1913 Webster] { Pyrrhic victory} [ From Pyrrhus, king of Epirus.], ( a) a victory in which the winning side sustains very heavy losses. ( b) any act supposedly benefitting the actor, for which the costs outweight the benefits. [ PJC] 87 Moby Thesaurus words for " pyrrhic": Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, antispastic, arsis, bacchius, beat, cadence, cadenced, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, feminine caesura, foot, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jingle, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, measured, meter, metric, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period, proceleusmatic, prosodic, quantity, rhythm, rhythmic, scanning, spondaic, spondee, sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochaic, trochee
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