pyrrhic

['pirik]

adj. 付出极大代价而获得的
n. 二短音步

例句与用法：

So it looks as it the politicians have won. My only point is that it has been a Pyrrhic victory. In no country in the world are politicians held in greater or more open division than they are here.

因此，看起来政治家们取得了胜利。我惟一的想法是，他们为此付出了惨重的代价，未免得不偿失。世界上其他任何一个国家的政治家之间的分歧都没有这里的政治家之间的分歧那么大，那么公开。