And then the dancers came out to try to make that trophy their own. Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2020 The museum ultimately decided to remove 120 human remains, including the tsantsas, Naga trophy heads and an Egyptian mummy of a child. Danica Kirka, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020 The economics are similar to owning a blue chip investment bank, even if the social cachet is on another level (arch-rival Christie’s is owned by the Pinaults, no strangers to trophy assets). Chris Hughes | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 18 June 2019 Fishermen are catching good to excellent numbers of silvery and post-spawn steelhead trout on the Rocky, Chagrin and Cuyahoga rivers, from young skippers to trophy trout.cleveland.com, 13 Apr. 2018 What other sport can boast so many all-time superstars who never once got to hoist a trophy? Jon Tayler, SI.com, 2 Nov. 2017 No area teams brought home trophies, but South Milwaukee finished third in Division 1 and Port Washington third in Division 2..Middleton (76) and Stevens Point (177) finished ahead of South Milwaukee (191) in Division 1. Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2017 The Chargers get to keep the Battle for the Bell trophy, though. David Carrillo Peñaloza, Daily Pilot, 27 Oct. 2017 There are still many trophy wives, princesses and doting mothers in denial about all the blood on the hands of their sons and husbands. Malcolm Beith, Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2017 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle French trophee, from Medieval Latin tropheum, from Latin tropaeum, trophaeum, from Greek tropaion, from neuter of tropaios of a turning, of a rout, from tropē turn, rout, from trepein to turn
Noun combining form
New Latin -trophia, from Greek, from -trophos nourishing, from trephein
ADJECTIVE | VERB + TROPHY | TROPHY + NOUN | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤coveted, prestigious人人都渴慕的獎杯;享有盛名的大賽獎杯▸➤major (especially BrE) 重大的勝利➤winning (especially BrE) 勝利的獎杯▸➤sporting, sports (especially NAmE) 體育獎杯➤basketball, bowling, football, etc.籃球、保齡球、足球等獎杯➤domestic (BrE) 國內獎杯VERB + TROPHY➤lift, pick up, receive, take, win捧起獎杯;獲得獎杯;贏得獎杯◇Britain has not lifted the trophy since it last hosted the event.自從上次主辦這一賽事以來,英國還沒有捧起過此獎杯。➤hold持有獎杯◇Europe currently holds the trophy.歐洲目前擁有這座獎杯。➤award, present授予/頒發獎杯▸➤defend保住獎杯◇Portugal will be defending the trophy they won last year.葡萄牙將力圖衞冕他們去年贏得的獎杯。TROPHY + NOUN➤cabinet, case (especially NAmE) 獎杯陳列櫃▸➤room獎杯室▸➤winner獎杯得主➤wife (informal, disapproving) 花瓶太太(指嫁給闊佬的貌美女子)PREPOSITION➤trophy for因⋯獲的獎◇He picked up a trophy for best news editor.他獲得了最佳新聞編輯獎。