【每日一词】zero-sum - /ˈzir-(ˌ)ō-ˈsəm ˈzē-(ˌ)rō-/ adj. 零和的 ； of, relating to, or being a situation
(such as a game or relationship) in which a gain for one side entails a corresponding loss for
the other side dividing up the budget is a zero-sum game
zero-sum
短语
zero-sum game: 零和博弈；零和博奕；零和游戏
non-zero-sum game: 非零和博弈；非零和对策；非零和游戏
zero sum: 零和；零和的
Zero-Sum Competition: 零和竞争；零和比赛
two person zero sum game: 二人零和对策
Non-Zero-Sum: 非零和
a zero-sum game: 零和博弈；游戏；毕竟在公民看来；零和游戏
zero-sum game: [经]零和博弈；零和比赛；零和对策
双语例句
They believe they're playing a zero-sum game, where both must compete for the same resources.
他们认为他们在玩一场零和游戏，双方必须争夺同样的资源。
This was no longer a zero-sum game.
这不再是一场零和博弈。
Science is not a zero-sum game.
科学并非零和游戏。
First of all, happiness is a positive sum game it's not a zero sum game.
首先，快乐是正和博弈不是零和博弈。
Examples of zero-sum in a Sentence
But this isn’t a zero-sum game; renaming something is not an attack on anyone.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 June 2024
Addressing crime should not be a zero-sum equation.
—Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 10 June 2024
The intransigence of such zero-sum disputes is a reminder of why win-win fantasies are so attractive in the first place.
—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 8 June 2024
Its foreign policy would become less principled, more zero-sum.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2024
Empathy exists in no small supply, and suffering is not zero-sum.
—Julia Jassey, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2024
Budgeting is at best a zero-sum game this year, and Beckham acknowledged that most or all of the additional money would come from the $150 million in enhanced education funding that was negotiated last year and scheduled to become available on July 1, the start of the next fiscal year.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 1 Feb. 2024
If the divisions opened up by the protests were litigated in an endless back-and-forth of Title VI complaints, fought in the zero-sum realm of the law, then the school would fail at one of the oldest concepts in education: the moral development of its students.
—Charles Homans Gabra Zackman Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 29 May 2024
Liberty and justice teach that politics should not be a zero-sum game, i.e., what one side gains the other side loses.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2024
