GRE课程
近期，美国进行了第一次总统大选辩论，现任总统特朗普与前副总统拜登展开了激烈的唇枪舌战。特朗普三番屡次打断拜登，场面一度非常混乱。
在辩论中，新冠疫情、经济疲弱、种族争议等均成为重点主题。
中秋节当天，特朗普被爆出诊断患上新冠肺炎，昨日又匆匆出院。这一系列应接不暇地新闻给吃瓜群众带来不少茶余饭后的谈资。
还在备考GRE的同学们最近是否也有些松懈了呢，今天我们就给大家带来一个趣味单词科普。让大家在娱乐的同时，不知不觉学会单词的用法。
很多同学都不知道GRE单词中也有“特朗普”，现在就让我们来学习一下这个单词的用法吧。
用法一
【释义】胜过;压过
If you trump what someone has said or done, you beat it by saying or doing something else that seems better.
【例句】The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank has trumped Lloyds by raising its offer.
汇丰银行通过提高报价击败了劳埃德保险公司。
【同义词】：outbalance, outweigh, overbear, overshadow, best, conquer, defeat, overcome, triumph (over)
【释义】 意外地胜利;意外地成功
If you say that someone came up trumps, you mean that they did something successfully, often when they were not expected to.
【例句】Dwayne has come up trumps with a goal worthy of winning any match.
德韦恩意外地蒙进了一个可以拿下任何比赛的球。
同义词填空例题
Although his original mission was a failure, Russian botanist Michael Friedrich Adams achieved an unexpected _____ when he found, by chance, the carcass of a woolly mammoth.
A. conclusion
B. upheaval
C. triumph
D. bombshell
E. success
F. venture
