coups

英 [kuː]

美 [kuz]

n.  政变; 努力办到难办的事
coup的复数

柯林斯词典

• 政变
  When there is acoup, a group of people seize power in a country.
  1. ...a military coup...
     军事政变
  2. They were sentenced to death for their part in April's coup attempt.
     他们因参与了4月份的政变而被判处死刑。
• 了不起的成就;成功之举
  Acoupis an achievement which is thought to be especially good because it was very difficult.
  1. The sale is a big coup for the auction house...
     这笔交易是该拍卖行的一大成功之举。
  2. Regency Opera have scored something of a coup by persuading her to undertake the role.
     雷根希歌剧院说服她扮演这一角色从而取得了巨大成功。

双语例句

• Fiji has coups, the Solomons has scandals, and almost all have struggling economies.
  斐济发生政变，所罗门群岛出现丑闻，而且这些国家的经济形势几乎都是举步维艰。
• There have been previous attempts at coups. We regard such methods as entirely unacceptable
  以前也有人试图发动政变。我们绝对不能接受这种做法。
• He felt comfortable amid Atlanta's historically black colleges and restaurants, far away from a succession of military coups and botched elections in Nigeria.
  他在亚特兰大历来以黑人为主的大学和餐馆如鱼得水，远离了尼日利亚一连串的军事政变和流产选举。
• During its32 years of independence, Comoros has experienced several attempted secessions and more than a dozen coups or attempted coups, some of them led by foreign mercenaries.
  科摩罗在32年独立期间经历了几次预谋分离和大约10几次政变以及预谋政变，有些政变是外国雇佣军领导的。
• Should it be bankrolling coups in Latin America?
  美国是否应该资助拉美的政变？
• Military coups in Thailand happen almost as often as American presidential elections.
  泰国的军事政变就像美国的总统大选一样频繁。
• That is why public-company shareholders put a lot of effort into monitoring managers and boards, who, even then, can be hard to control without resorting to boardroom coups and confrontation.
  即便如此，这些管理者和董事如不通过会务策略和对抗手段是难以管制的。
• For 63 years, through 10 successful coups, 16 constitutions and 27 prime ministers, he has remained the one neutral figure.
  阿杜德在位的63年里一直保持中立，期间经历了10次成功的政变，16部宪法和27位总理。
• Guinea Bissau has a history of coups and coup attempts.
  几内亚比绍历来有政变和企图政变的传统。
• Finally, regular and credible elections are one of Latin America's greatest recent achievements, given its history of military coups.
  最后，鉴于拉丁美洲军事政变的历史，有公信力的定期选举，是该地区近来最大的成就之一。