2IMPRESSan achievement that is extremely impressive because it was very difficult 〔克服很大困难的〕成功之举,漂亮之举
Beating Arsenal was a major coup for the club.
击败阿森纳队是该俱乐部的一次重大胜利。
nCOLLOCATIONS
adjectives
a military/army coup
He seized power in a military coup in 1977.
an attempted/abortive/failed coup (=one that did not succeed)
There was an attempted coup against Togo’s military dictator.
a successful/unsuccessful coup
The armed forces are too weak to mount a successful coup.
a bloody/bloodless coup (=with or without killing and violence)
In 1974, the regime was overthrown in a bloodless coup.
a presidential coup (=in which power is taken from a president)
The new leader returned the country to democratic rule following his presidential coup.
verbs
plan/plot a coup
They were arrested and accused of plotting a coup against the government.
stage/mount/launch a coup (=attempt one)
Later that year, the rebels staged an unsuccessful coup.
foil/crush a coup (=stop it from being successful)
The government foiled an armed coup by rebel soldiers.
be deposed/overthrown in a coup (=lose power in a coup)
The prime minister was deposed in a coup by the armed forces.
coup + NOUN
a coup attempt
There have been repeated coup attempts against the government.
the coup leader
The coup leaders escaped when the rest of the men were arrested.
a coup plot
He was imprisoned for his part in a coup plot against the regime.
Examples from the Corpus
coup• There they argued inconclusively, and the students prepared to stage a coup in Jakarta.• Getting to host the race was a coup for the Santa Cruz YachtClub.• S.-backed coup which overthrew a democratically elected government.• The next morning, a week after his coup, senior army officers told him his time had run out.• For Stewart, the Athensdispatches were a journalistic coup of the first rank.• Ben Bella was overthrown in a militarycoup in 1965.• But the coup the youngest daughter most wanted was to reconcile with her father in a big way.
failed coup• President Gamul Abdel Nasser had dissolved the organization after a failed coup attempt in Alexandria in which he claimed it was involved.• It was the worstviolence Moscow had seen since the failed coup of August 1991.
1 ( coup d'état) violent change of government政變ADJECTIVE | VERB + COUP | COUP + NOUN | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤abortive, attempted, failed, unsuccessful流產的政變;未遂的政變;失敗的政變▸➤successful成功的政變▸➤bloody流血政變▸➤bloodless不流血的政變▸➤army, military軍隊/軍事政變▸➤palace宮廷政變◇He deposed his father in a palace coup in 1970.他在 1970 年的一次宮廷政變中廢黜了父親的王位。➤communist, right-wing, etc.共產黨人、右翼分子等的政變▸➤boardroom董事會人事突變◇She lost her position in a boardroom coup (= a sudden change of power in a company).她在董事會的人事突變中失去了職位。VERB + COUP➤launch, mount, stage發動政變▸➤foil, put down挫敗/鎮壓政變◇The coup was immediately put down and the plotters were shot.政變立即被鎮壓下去,密謀者被擊斃。➤engineer, foment, orchestrate, plan, plot策劃/煽動/精心策劃/計劃/密謀政變▸➤lead領導政變▸➤come to power in, seize power in在政變中掌權;在政變中奪取權力◇He seized power in a military coup.他在一場軍事政變中掌了權。COUP + NOUN➤attempt, plot政變圖謀/陰謀▸➤leader, plotter政變頭領/策劃者PREPOSITION➤coup against針對⋯的政變◇a coup against the president企圖推翻總統的政變coup
noun²
2achievement成就ADJECTIVE | VERB + COUPADJECTIVE➤big, great, major, real, spectacular (especially BrE) 巨大的成就;輝煌的成就◇Winning that contract was her greatest coup.贏得那份合同是她最大的成就。➤diplomatic, intelligence, marketing, propaganda, publicity外交上的成功之舉;漂亮的情報戰;漂亮的營銷戰;宣傳上的巨大成功;巧妙的公關宣傳VERB + COUP➤pull off, score贏得成功◇He managed to pull off a major diplomatic coup.他設法贏得了一次重大的外交成功。