triumph: [14] Triumph comes via Old French triumphe from Latin triumphus, which denoted a ‘public celebration to welcome home a victorious general’. It was an alteration of Old Latin triumpus, which was probably borrowed from Greek thríambos ‘hymn to Bacchus’. The cards term trump is an alteration of triumph. => trump
triumph (n.)
late 14c., "success in battle, conquest," also "spiritual victory" and "a procession celebrating victory in war," from Old French triumphe (12c., Modern French triomphe), from Latin triumphus "an achievement, a success; celebratory procession for a victorious general or admiral," from Old Latin triumpus, probably via Etruscan from Greek thriambos "hymn to Dionysus," a loan-word from a pre-Hellenic language.
triumph (v.)
mid-15c., from Old French triumpher (13c.), from Latin triumphare, from triumphus (see triumph (n.)). Related: Triumphed; triumphing.
雙語例句
1. Even the quality papers agreed that it was a triumph.
即使是內容嚴肅的報紙也認為這是一次勝利。
來自柯林斯例句
2. What price a glorious repeat of last week's triumph?
還有可能再次上演上周的輝煌勝利嗎？
來自柯林斯例句
3. His triumph was overshadowed by an uneasy sense of foreboding.
他的勝利因為一種令人不安的不祥預感蒙上了陰影。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The fin-ancial markets gave a muted response to the Democrats' triumph.