trophy
trophy 英 [ˈtrəʊfi] 美 [ˈtroʊfi]
n. 奖品；战利品；纪念品 vt. 用战利品装饰 adj. 显示身份的；有威望的
名词复数:trophies
- A trophy is a prize given for winning a competition. Often made of metal (or plastic meant to look like metal), a trophy may not have much monetary value, but the pride it gives the person who receives it can be priceless.
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- n. 奖品；战利品；纪念品
- vt. 用战利品装饰
- adj. 显示身份的；有威望的
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1. They took the printer away, of course, and displayed it like a trophy for the newsies.
他们当然取走了打印机，像一件战利品般的在记者面前进行展示。
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2. In this article, Hao Xin reports on the criticism and support for this high-priced 'trophy hunt'.
郝忻在这篇文章中报道了对这种高价“寻求战利品”方式的批评和支持意见。
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3. And yet, it was Lou who was brandishing the whip above the heads of Nietzsche and R ée in the famous picture, which she often displayed as her trophy.
其实，反倒是莎乐美在尼采和保罗•李头上挥舞着鞭子，正如在那幅经常被她当作战利品炫耀的画中所画的那样。
- trophy (n.) 1510s, "a spoil or prize of war," from Middle French trophée (15c.) from Latin trophaeum "a sign of victory, monument," originally tropaeum, from Greek tropaion "monument of an enemy's defeat," noun use of neuter of adjective tropaios "of defeat, causing a rout," from trope "a rout," originally "a turning" (of the enemy); from PIE root *trep- "to turn." In ancient Greece, spoils or arms taken in battle and set up on the field and dedicated to a god. Figurative extension to any token or memorial of victory is first recorded 1560s. As "a symbolic representation of a classical trophy" from 1630s. Trophy wife attested by 1984.
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