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Pyrrhic victory 惨胜

Well, in short, all three of these victories we'd probably do better without.

Here are two media examples of Pyrrhic victory.

1. In short, the Hong Kong government might have won this particular battle against the speculators, just as the Malaysians reckon they have done. But with both administrations' credibility hugely damaged as a result, these are Pyrrhic victories that they may come to rue.

- "Market intervention: Fashionable", The Economist, September 5, 1998.

2. After intense and wearying discussions that came close to breakdown on more than one occasion, European leaders, thanks mainly to the efforts of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Luxemburg's Jean-Claude Juncker, snatched victory from the jaws of defeat to reach agreement over a reform treaty in the early hours of June 23.

But it was a pyrrhic victory. The document that emerged from Brussels appeared to reject the ideals of a strong and unified European Union as envisioned by statesmen like Francois Mitterrand or Helmut Kohl and was instead a watered down, dismembered, and completely illegible version of the defunct EU constitutional project.