moral victory

The fact that South Africa won the legal battle was a huge moral victory in the broader fight to make life-saving drugs more affordable.

而南非打赢了官司，在广泛争取提高救命药物的可负担程度方面取得了巨大的道义胜利。

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Showing greater respect for human life than he ever did would have represented a rare moral victory for Iraq's occupiers.

倘若能免他一死，便可让伊拉克的占领者难得地占据道德的高地。

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I very much doubt if the glory of moral victory would last more than five minutes in the teeth of practical defeat.

我非常怀疑，面对实质上的失败，道德胜利的光辉能否持续5分钟以上。

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I intended to go home with it -- a small moral victory.

我本打算拿着这些钱 掉头 回家,这也算是精神上的小小胜利.

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It feels like a real moral victory, says one unbiased observer who had a ringside seat on the weekend deal that, if completed, will set Mr Ma free.

接近上周末谈判的一位中立观察人士表示：感觉上这是一场真正的道德上的胜利。这笔交易如果完成，马云将重获自由。

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She said her party had won a moral victory

她说她的党派虽败犹荣。

《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

We stood up to the West, and that's a moral victory.

我们勇敢反抗了西方强权，这是一种精神上的胜利。

《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

It has become ever clearer to me that danger is far from disaster, that defeat may be the forerunner of final victory, and that, in the last analysis, all achievement is perilously fragile unless based on enduring principles of moral conduct.

我也更清楚地意识到，危险远非灾难，而失败也许就是最终胜利的先行者。因此，归根结底，一切成就如果不经受道会脆弱不堪，危机重重。

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Through Joan of Arc, France won a great moral victory.

因为圣女贞德,法国在道义上赢得了重大的胜利。

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I generally feel like I've won a moral victory when something refuses to wear out.

我一般觉得,当衣服鞋子穿不破的时候,我就在道德上赢得了胜利.

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As some protesters declared a moral victory and went home, others refused to budge.

当一些抗议人士宣告赢得精神上的胜利回家后，其它人却仍无动于衷。

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De Gaulle did win a moral victory over his rival, but hereafter dimmed the prospect of cooperation between the two countries in the war and bubbled his strategic proposition of contending with Britain by means of America.

尽管戴高乐在这一冲突中赢得了道义上的胜利，但却因此而使自由法国与美国在战争中合作的前景遭到破坏，并使他利用美国来抗衡英国的外交战略构想化为泡影。

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