trump

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
    — Diamonds were declared trump(s).
  2. Synonym of Jew's harp. dated
  3. A trumpet. archaic
    — In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible
  4. A playing card of that suit.
    — He played an even higher trump.
  5. A fart. UK,colloquial
  6. The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
  7. Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve. figuratively
    — VVere Iacke Strawe a liue againe, And I in as good poſſibility as euer I was, I would lay a ſurer trumpe, Ere I would loſe ſo faire a tricke.
  8. An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg. archaic,colloquial
    — [W]e permitted no hostile foot to pass over or desecrate his resting place; shall be that which to learn the last trump shall awaken our WASHINGTON.
  9. An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
    — There be many one that breaketh this carde,[…]and playeth there with oftentimes at the blinde trompe, wherby they be no winners but great losers
  10. A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
动词 v.
  1. To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump. transitive
    — He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.
  2. To blow a trumpet.
  3. To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump. intransitive
  4. To fart. UK,colloquial,intransitive
    — And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.
  5. To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor. transitive
    — to trick or trump mankind
  6. To impose unfairly; to palm off. dated,transitive
    — Authors have been trumped upon us.
  7. To supersede. transitive
    — In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
  8. To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to. transitive

词形变化

trumps plural trumps present,singular,third-person trumping participle,present trumped participle,past trumped past trumps plural trumps present,singular,third-person trumping participle,present trumped participle,past trumped past trumps plural

词汇关系

近义词
ruff clown cheat
衍生词
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并列词
underruff overruff

词源

词源 1
Possibly from French triomphe (“triumph”) or Old French triumphe. If so, it is a doublet of triumph and thriambus. Compare German Trumpf.
词源 2
From Middle English trumpe, trompe (“trumpet”), from Old French trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa (“trumpet”), from a common Germanic word of imitative origin. Doublet of tulumba and tromp.
Akin to Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”). More at trumpet, drum.
词源 3
Ellipsis of Jew's-trump, which may be from French jeu-trompe (literally “toy trumpet”).
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