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Triumph Greek Traɪʌmf N.大成功 Conquest Outer Space Greatest

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Pron ['traɪʌmf]
Back 【triumph】
n.大成功
The conquest of outer space is one of the greatest triumphs of modern science.
外太空的征服是现代科学最伟大的成就之一。
Vocab
triumpha successful ending of a struggle or contest

A triumph is a well-earned victory. It'll make you pump your fist and yell "Hurrah!"

Triumph can be a noun or a verb, so you can have a triumph after the big game when you triumph over your opponents. Either way, it's a way to rejoice and a reason to whoop it up. The word comes from the Latin triumphus which is an "achievement, success, procession for a victorious general or admiral." The jury's still out on whether it comes from the Greek thriambos, as a "hymn to Dionysus," but it's fun to imagine that a triumph is a song to the Greek god of party animals. Fittingly, a Triumph is also the name of a motorcycle, a cool car, and a hard rockin' band from Canada.

All forms of 'triumph' will appear on average once every 80 pages.
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