核心畫面

You can picture a card game where one suit is crowned the boss: any card of that suit beats any card of the ordinary suits. That 'beats everything else' power is the seed of every other use.

可以想成一場牌局裡,有一門花色被立為老大:這門花色的任何一張牌,都能吃掉其他普通花色的牌。這個「壓過其他一切」的力量更多收起可以想成一場牌局裡,有一門花色被立為老大:這門花色的任何一張牌,都能吃掉其他普通花色的牌。這個「壓過其他一切」的力量,就是所有用法的種子。

From the picture

壓過一切(牌桌外的引申)

把牌桌上「王牌吃普通牌」的畫面整個搬到真實世界:誰、什麼東西更強、更重要,就像那張壓過全場的王牌。

outdo/surpass · verb · C1

To do better than someone else, or to be more important or powerful than something else.

勝過/壓過

Also in this word

trump suit · noun · B2

In a card game, the suit of cards that is chosen to beat all the other suits.

王牌花色

a trump card · noun · B2

A single card from the suit chosen to beat all the other suits in a card game.

王牌(單張)

beat with a trump · verb · C1

To beat someone else's card by playing a card from the trump suit.

出王牌吃牌

原始詞典資料22 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Trumpname/tɹʌmp/

  • 1

    A surname from English or German.

    • The house at which he was to lodge had been selected with considerable judgment. It was kept by a tidy old widow known as Mrs. Trump; but those who knew any thing of Hamworth affairs were well aware that Mrs. Trump had been left without a shilling, and could not have taken that snug little house in Paradise Row and furnished it completely out of her own means.
  • 2

    A surname from English or German.

    • During their interview, Shahidi asked Clinton about the uncomfortable second presidential debate, during which Trump stalked her around the stage.
  • 3

    A ghost town in Park County, Colorado, United States.

  • 4

    An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.

trumpnoun詞源 1/tɹʌmp/

  • 1

    card-gamesgamesThe suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.

    • Diamonds were declared trump(s).
    • And now her Heart with Pleasure jumps, She scarce remembers what is Trumps.
  • 2

    card-gamesgamesA playing card of that suit.

    • He played an even higher trump.
  • 3

    Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.

    • 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.
  • 4

    archaicAn excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.

    • [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.
    • All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump; the captain begged his pardon.
  • 5

    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
    • Trionfo,[…]also a trump at cards, or the play called trump or ruff.
  • 6

    A card of the major arcana of the tarot.

trumpverb詞源 1/tɹʌmp/

  • 1

    card-gamesgamesTo play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.

    • He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.
    • He lost his money at whist after dinner, and actually trumped his partner’s highest spade.
  • 2

    card-gamesgamesTo play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.

  • 3

    To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.

    • to trick or trump mankind
    • Wren, who had hoped to make his name with his discovery, immediately put De Corpore aside, hoping that in silence his failure would disappear. He was forced to think again about his future and resolved to seek new territory within the New Philosophy which he could call his own, rather than face the embarrassment of being trumped for a second time.
  • 4

    datedTo impose unfairly; to palm off.

    • Authors have been trumped upon us.
  • 5

    To supersede.

    • In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
    • The phrase was, and remains, a double-edged sword: a testament to the hard-working and hard-living citizens of the Crescent City and an indicator of the “ah, whatever” shrug hanging over its corrupt politics, its ramshackle infrastructure and its belief that partying trumps all.
  • 6

    To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.

trumpnoun詞源 2/tɹʌmp/

  • 1

    archaicA trumpet.

    • 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
    • Sound, sound the trump of fame,
  • 2

    A fart.

  • 3

    The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.

trumpverb詞源 2/tɹʌmp/

  • 1

    To blow a trumpet.

  • 2

    To fart.

    • And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.
    • Who trumped?

trumpnoun詞源 3/tɹʌmp/

  • 1

    datedentertainmentlifestylemusicSynonym of Jew's harp.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。