troika

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɹɔɪ.kə/    美 /ˈtɹɔɪ.kə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
    — A great writer of the last epoch, comparing Russia to a swift troika galloping to an unknown goal, exclaims 'Oh, troika, birdlike troika, who invented thee!' and adds, in proud ecstasy, that all the peoples of the world stand aside respectfully to make way for the recklessly galloping troika to pass.
  2. A party or group of three, especially a ruling council of three people in Soviet or Russian contexts.
    — The investigator suspected the poor dead bastards were just a vodka troika that had cheerily frozen to death.

词形变化

troikas plural troiki plural

词汇关系

近义词
triad

词源

From Russian тро́йка (trójka, “a group of three”).
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