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.