英语词汇“lose/win the battle, win/lose the war”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

lose/win the battle, win/lose the war

or to lose the battle but win the war

phrase

If you say that someone has lost the battle, but won the war, you mean that although they have been defeated in a small conflict they have won a larger, more important one of which it was a part. If you say that someone has won the battle but lost the war, you mean that they have won the small conflict but lost the larger one.

The strikers may have won the battle, but they lost the war.

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单词	lose/win the battle, win/lose the war
释义	lose/win the battle, win/lose the war or to lose the battle but win the war phrase If you say that someone has lost the battle, but won the war, you mean that although they have been defeated in a small conflict they have won a larger, more important one of which it was a part. If you say that someone has won the battle but lost the war, you mean that they have won the small conflict but lost the larger one. The strikers may have won the battle, but they lost the war. See full dictionary entry for battle
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