trumping

1. N-UNCOUNT-COLL (牌戏中的)王牌，主牌
   In a game of cards, trumps is the suit which is chosen to have the highest value in one particular game.
   1. Hearts are trumps.
      红桃是主。
   2. …the ace of trumps.
      主牌 A
2. N-COUNT (一张)王牌，主牌
   In a game of cards, a trump is a playing card which belongs to the suit which has been chosen as trumps.
   1. He played a trump.
      他吊主。
3. VERB 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.
   1. The Socialists tried to trump this with their slogan...
      社会党党员设法用他们的口号把它压过去。
   2. 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。
4. PHRASE 王牌;绝招;杀手锏
   Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
   1. In the end, the Ten took their appeal to the Supreme Court; this, they had believed from the outset, would be their trump card...
      最后，10 个人上诉到最高法院：他们从一开始就认为这一招是他们的王牌。
   2. She could threaten to play her trump card, an autobiography of embarrassing disclosures.
      她可能会威胁要拿出她的杀手锏：出自传来爆料糗事。
5. PHRASE 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.
   1. 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。

1. Single guys worked the hardest around the house, trumping all age groups of married men.
   单身男性最勤快，他们做家务的时间超过了各个年龄段的已婚男性。
2. Google published some data on Tuesday showing that Olympics-related searches over mobile phone increased 10-fold in the first week of the games, and mobile is trumping any other technology at key moments.
   谷歌（Google）周二发布的一些数据显示，奥运会开幕第一周，手机端有关奥运会信息的搜索量以10倍的速度增长，而且在一些关键时点，手机端的搜索量超过了其他所有方式。
3. However, even Maradona, who led Argentina to victory over West Germany in the 1986 World Cup final, was forced to concede the 27-year-old Messi is trumping him in the goal scoring stakes.
   然而，即使马拉多纳曾于1986年带领阿根廷打败西德成为世界杯冠军，他不得不承认，27岁的梅西在进球上正在超越自己。
4. Trumping a talent less villain might seem all in a day's work for three ingenious orphans.
   战胜无能的恶棍对三个机灵孤儿来说看上去就像经过了一整天的疲累。
5. I've heard that SolarWorld and the Western solar industry is just trumping up data because they can't compete with the Chinese.
   我听说太阳能世界和其他西方的太阳能开发公司因为无法与中国人竞争而提高数据标准。
6. Indeed, software is already trumping physical design as the source of competitive advantage in mobile phones.
   实际上，软件正取代实体设计，成为手机竞争优势的来源。
7. Their rapidly again population will crush their medical services and the trumping up of their currency will bite them in their Szechuan one day soon.
   他们的快速增加的人口，会粉碎他们的医疗服务，他们伪造的货币不久后的一天会把他们咬回四川。
8. Whatever bullshit charges he's trumping up.
   他想捏造的任何指控。
9. Reality has a way of trumping art, and human-induced climate change is very real indeed.
   现实总有它的王牌艺术，受人类影响的气候变化的确成了事实。

noun

1. (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit

   Synonym:    ruff