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英语单词 trump
英美音标 英 [trʌmp] 美 [trʌmp]
中文释义 n.王牌;法宝
v.打出王牌;胜过;吹喇叭
英语例句 (1) Hearts are trumps.
(2) I was lucky to have drawn a trump.
(3) He took my ace with a low trump.
(4) This defender's ability to score vital goals has often proved a trump card.
(5) He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.
(6) Our team must trump them in the game.
中文例句 (1) 红桃是王牌。
(2) 我运气好,抽到张王牌。
(3) 他用一张小的王牌吃了我的A牌。
(4) 这名防守队员在关键时刻进球得分的能力常常成了整个队的制胜法宝。
(5) 他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
(6) 我们的队伍一定会在竞赛中胜过他们。
vocabulary简明 To trump is to outrank or defeat someone or something, often in a highly public way. Safety might trump appearance when you're buying a car, or your desires may trump your brother's when it comes to making weekend plans.
vocabulary扩展 In the card game bridge, the trump card is the most powerful card in a particular round and defeats all the others — sort of like when your needs or wishes trump someone else's. Originally trump implied a deceptive form of victory involving cheating, but that sense has been largely lost, though it's still around in the term trumped up, meaning something that's been falsely made up. A politician may face trumped up charges that could ruin his career.
柯林斯解释
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[N-UNCOUNT-COLL 不可数集合名词](牌戏中的)王牌,主牌 In a game of cards, trumps is the suit which is chosen to have the highest value in one particular game.
  • Hearts are trumps.

    红桃是主。

  • …the ace of trumps.

    主牌 A

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[N-COUNT 可数名词](一张)王牌,主牌 In a game of cards, a trump is a playing card which belongs to the suit which has been chosen as trumps.
  • He played a trump.

    他吊主。

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[VERB 动词]胜过;压过 If you trump what someone has said or done, you beat it by saying or doing something else that seems better.
  [V n]
  • The Socialists tried to trump this with their slogan...

    社会党党员设法用他们的口号把它压过去。

  • The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank has trumped Lloyds by raising its offer.

    汇丰银行通过提高报价击败了劳埃德保险公司。

4
[PHRASE 短语]王牌;绝招;杀手锏 Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
  [poss PHR]
  • In the end, the Ten took their appeal to the Supreme Court; this, they had believed from the outset, would be their trump card...

    最后,10 个人上诉到最高法院:他们从一开始就认为这一招是他们的王牌。

  • She could threaten to play her trump card, an autobiography of embarrassing disclosures.

    她可能会威胁要拿出她的杀手锏:出自传来爆料糗事。

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[PHRASE 短语]意外地胜利;意外地成功 If you say that someone came up trumps, you mean that they did something successfully, often when they were not expected to.
  [V inflects]
  [BRIT 英]
  • Dwayne has come up trumps with a goal worthy of winning any match.

    德韦恩意外地蒙进了一个可以拿下任何比赛的球。

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