trophy
trophy 英 [ˈtrəʊfi] 美 [ˈtroʊfi]
n. 奖品；战利品
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
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1. trophy cup
奖杯
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2. The cup is a cherished trophy of the company.
那只奖杯是该公司很珍惜的奖品。
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3. The team regained the trophy.
该队赢回了奖杯。
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4. All these lies just to win a trophy?
搞这些把戏就是为了那个奖杯吗？
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5. In thanks for that, they gave me a trophy.
作为感谢，他们给了我一个奖杯。
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6. trophy wife
花瓶妻子
- 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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