trump
trump 英 [trʌmp] 美 [trʌmp]
n. 王牌；法宝；喇叭 vt. 胜过；打出王牌赢 vi. 出王牌；吹喇叭
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- To trump is to outrank or defeat someone or something, often in a highly public way. Safety might trump appearance when you're buying a car, or your desires may trump your brother's when it comes to making weekend plans.
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- n. 王牌；法宝；喇叭
- vt. 胜过；打出王牌赢
- vi. 出王牌；吹喇叭
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1. In addition, as we learn more about the world, our knowledge and beliefs trump our powers of scientific reasoning.
另外，当我们对世界了解的更多，我们的知识和信仰就胜过了我们科学论证的能力 。
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2. While politics and economics typically go hand-in-hand when the economy heads south, the correlation is weaker in a healthy economy, where other issues can trump economics.
虽然政治和经济往往肩并肩出现，但是在一个健康的经济中，这种相关关系较为微弱，而其他议题可以胜过经济。
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3. But why should a culture of health trump one of pleasure or at least comfort?
但是，为什么一种健康的文化要打出欢乐或最起码要舒适的王牌？
- trump (n.1) "playing card of a suit ranking above others," 1520s, alteration of triumph (n.), which also was the name of a card game.
- trump (n.2) "trumpet," c. 1300, from Old French trompe "long, tube-like musical wind instrument" (12c.), cognate with Provençal tromba, Italian tromba, all probably from a Germanic source (compare Old High German trumpa, Old Norse trumba "trumpet"), of imitative origin.
- trump (v.1) "surpass, beat," 1580s, from trump (n.). Related: Trumped; trumping.
- trump (v.2) "fabricate, devise," 1690s, from trump "deceive, cheat" (1510s), from Middle English trumpen (late 14c.), from Old French tromper "to deceive," of uncertain origin. Apparently from se tromper de "to mock," from Old French tromper "to blow a trumpet." Brachet explains this as "to play the horn, alluding to quacks and mountebanks, who attracted the public by blowing a horn, and then cheated them into buying ...." The Hindley Old French dictionary has baillier la trompe "blow the trumpet" as "act the fool," and Donkin connects it rather to trombe "waterspout," on the notion of turning (someone) around. Connection with triumph also has been proposed. Related: Trumped; trumping. Trumped up "false, concocted" first recorded 1728.
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