trophy

英 ['tr??f?] 美

TEM4IELTSCET6+GRE中低頻詞擴展詞匯

復數:?trophies;

1. 希臘根詞 trope "turn" (轉向，轉動) => trophy.
2. 同源詞：trophy, trope, tropic, tropics.

trophy 紀念品，戰利品，獎杯，獎品

來自拉丁語 trophaeum,勝利標志，紀念碑，紀念品，來自希臘語 trope,潰敗，打敗，戰爭的轉折，來自 PIE*trep,轉，來自 PIE*ter,轉，詞源同 turn,trope.后引申詞義戰利品，獎品等。

trophy: trophy: [16] A trophy is etymologically something awarded to commemorate the enemy’s ‘turning round’ and running away. The word comes via French trophée and Latin trophaeum from Greek trópaion ‘monument to the enemy’s defeat’. This was a noun use of the adjective tropaíos ‘of turning’, a derivative of tropé ‘turning’, hence ‘turning back the enemy’ (source also of English tropic).
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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); see trope. 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.

1. The silver trophy was donated by a Leicester businessman.: 銀制獎杯是由一個萊斯特的商人捐贈的。