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小词详解 | coup
coup 英 [kuː] 美 [kuː]
“It was the intelligence coup of the century,” crowed a CIA report. “Foreign governments were paying good money…for the privilege of having their most secret communications read.”
“这是本世纪情报工作非常难得的成就,”美国中央情报局的报告中洋洋自得地写道,“外国政府花重金……把自己最机密的通信开放给他人。”
——《经济学人》Throughout the weekend, most of the conversations I had were with friends and family debating the probability of a coup.
整个周末,我和亲朋的大部分对话都是在讨论政变的可能性。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 政变
总统在军事政变中被赶下台。
The president was ousted in a military coup.我的死敌在一场董事会突变中失去了职位。
My nemesis lost her position in a boardroom coup.
要不是他们从对手那儿抢到了合同,他们早就破产了。这对他们来说真是成功的一着。
They'd have gone bust if they hadn't snagged that contract from their rivals. It was quite a coup for them.我说服了沉默内向的第一夫人来参加聚会,实属意外之得。
I got the reticent and reserved first lady to come to a party, which was something of a coup.
"The coup has been smooth and virtually silent," said Lupin. "The official version of Scrimgeour's murder is that he resigned; he has been replaced by Pius Thicknesse, who is under the Imperius Curse."
“政变很平稳,几乎无声无息,”卢平说,“斯克林杰遇害的官方说法是他辞职了,接替他的是皮尔斯·辛克尼斯,被施了夺魂咒。”
overthrow: a removal from power; a defeat or downfall takeover: an act of assuming control of something, especially the buying out of one company by another deposition: the action of deposing someone, especially a monarch