每日单词：trump

trump /trʌmp/

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外刊例句

The government has thus fulfilled the unionists' promise in the 2014 referendum that Britain would be Scotland's protector in hard times. Yet the appetite for separation has rarely been so high. The threat of a hard border between England and Scotland after divorce has been the unionists' trump card.

政府实现了统一派在2014年公投中做出的承诺，即英国将在困难时期成为苏格兰的保护者。然而，分离的意愿愈加强烈。对于统一派来说，英格兰和苏格兰在分开后面临硬边界的威胁，这一直是他们的王牌。

——《经济学人》

基本释义

trump：Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone. If you trump what someone has said or done, you beat it by saying or doing something else that seems better.

n. 王牌；v. 胜过

追根溯源

在古罗马时代，当打了胜仗的将军回到罗马城时，就会举行隆重的凯旋仪式，这个仪式在拉丁语里被称为triumphus，英语单词triumph（成就、胜利）就来自这里。

单词trump是从triumph变化而来，16世纪20年代起开始用来表示某些纸牌游戏中的“王牌、主牌”，可以用trump card，复数trumps则可以表示“王牌花色、主牌花色”，即该花色下的所有牌为王牌。做动词时表示出王牌赢别人，引申为胜过、打败。

影视例句

在美剧《生活大爆炸》中，Penny在安慰Sheldon时，就用到了今天的单词：

Penny: Okay, let me put it this way. If you're really Leonard's friend, you will.

Sheldon: Wait a minute. Why am I doing all the giving here? If Leonard's really my friend, why doesn't he have to support me for my hate of Leslie Winkle?

Penny: Because love trumps hate.

Sheldon: Oh, now you're just making stuff up.

-好，这么说吧。如果你真是Leonard的哥们，无论他和谁在一起你都会支持他的。

-等一下，为什么总是我支持他？如果Leonard真的是我的哥们，他怎么就不支持一下我对Leslie Winkle的厌恶之情？

-因为爱胜过厌恶。

-噢，你现在是和事佬了。