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

• 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。
• The country's apparently troubled political history of serial coups and quick-vanishing constitutions, say its many admirers, is not as bad as it appears.
  仰慕者表示，连续的政变和稍现即逝的宪法让这个国家的政治史显得问题重重，但实际上并不像看起来那么糟糕。
• 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。
• Beginning in1960 a series of coups d'etat were attempted, and in reaction his rule became increasingly despotic.
  在1960年开始了一系列的政变企图是，在他统治的反应变得越来越专制。
• We will make history and there will be no more coups in Thailand.
  我们将创造历史，泰国将不再发生政变。
• 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。
• 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。
• Unlike Thailand, presently under military rule, it is not prone to coups.
  与目前处于军事统治下的泰国不同，马来西亚很少发生政变。
• But there is every chance that his years of good living could prove a more imminent threat to the regime than internal coups and bombers.
  但相对于国内政变和爆炸袭击，他多年锦衣玉食的生活可能是对朝鲜政权更直接的威胁。
• This is despite the fact that it has adopted 17 constitutions and suffered umpteen coups in its 76-year history as a constitutional monarchy.
  尽管在其76年的君主立宪制历史中，它已颁布了17部宪法，经历过无数次政变。