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 trump [trʌmp]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 王牌, 法宝, 喇叭

vt. 打出王牌赢, 胜过

vi. 出王牌, 吹喇叭




    trump
    [ noun ]
    1. a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps

    2. <noun.artifact>
      the ace of trumps is a sure winner
    3. (card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand

    4. <noun.artifact>
      clubs were declared trumps
      a trump can take a trick even when a card of a different suit is led
    5. a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

    6. <noun.artifact>
    [ verb ]
    1. produce a sound as if from a trumpet

    2. <verb.perception>
    3. get the better of

    4. <verb.competition> best outdo outflank scoop
      the goal was to best the competition
    5. play a trump

    6. <verb.competition>
      ruff
    7. proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare

    8. <verb.communication>
      trump out


    Trump \Trump\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trumped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Trumping}.]
    To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.


    Trump \Trump\, v. t.
    To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she
    trumped the first trick.


    Trump \Trump\, n. [OE. trumpe, trompe, F. trompe; probably fr.
    L. triumphare to triumph, to exult, hence, probably, to make
    a joyous sound or noise. See {Triumph}, v. i. & n., and cf.
    {Trombone}, {Tromp}, {Trump} at cards, {Trumpery}, {Trumpet},
    {Trunk} a proboscis.]
    A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet;
    -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.

    We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling
    of an eye, at the last trump. --1 Cor. xv.
    51, 52.

    The wakeful trump of doom. --Milton.


    Trump \Trump\, v. t. [F. tromper to deceive, in OF., to blow a
    trumpet, se tromper de to mock. See {Trump} a trumpet.]
    1. To trick, or impose on; to deceive. [Obs.] ``To trick or
    trump mankind.'' --B. Jonson.

    2. To impose unfairly; to palm off.

    Authors have been trumped upon us. --C. Leslie.

    {To trump up}, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to
    fabricate; as, to trump up a charge.


    Trump \Trump\, v. i. [Cf. OF. tromper. See {Trump} a trumpet.]
    To blow a trumpet. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Matt. vi. 2).


    Trump \Trump\, n. [A corruption of triumph, F. triomphe. See
    {Triumph}, and cf. {Trump} a trumpet.]
    1. A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually
    determined by chance for each deal) any card of which
    takes any card of the other suits.

    2. An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; --
    called also {ruff}. --Decker.

    3. A good fellow; an excellent person. [Slang]

    Alfred is a trump, I think you say. --Thackeray.

    {To put to one's trumps}, or {To put on one's trumps}, to
    force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion.

    But when kings come so low as to fawn upon
    philosophy, which before they neither valued nor
    understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are
    then put to their last trump. --Milton.

    Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate
    them. --W. Irving.

    1. But Europe's diversity is also a trump card.
    2. But GE's ready to trump all bids with a $74-a-share offer of its own."
    3. Now, another strong performance could be the trump card Republicans need to win over doubters and lift the presidential ticket to where it can't be caught before November.
    4. But Iraq, so long as it lived by the ceasefire, was deprived of its military trump card: a technologically superior air force capable of significantly damaging Iranian oil facilities.
    5. Military force is the trump suit in the game of nations, and the wise player wishes to see as many of these cards in his own hand as possible.
    6. It is not plausible to talk about the need for glasnost and at the same time try to trump our bourgeois liberties with their socialist success in the social and economic spheres.
    7. "The veto will be the only trump card," he said.
    8. The West would be fatally inhibited in using its trump card of technology, while the Soviets would have free use of their advantage of mobilizing huge military manpower through something close to slave labor.
    9. Here is a qualitative argument posing as a quantitative trump.
    10. What are the PCB's economic trump cards?
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