| 词汇 | trophy |
| 词源 | trophy. The Greeks and the Romans often collected the arms of a vanquished enemy army after a battle and hung these swords, helmets, and armor on the branches of trees, arranging the display as if the tree were an armed man. This monument was called a trapaion, “a turning point,” because it was always situated at the place where the turning point of the battle oc- curred. It is to this monument of victory, the tropaion, that our word trophy owes its birth. |
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