1. Coup d’état; 政变

2. A brilliantly executed stratagem; a masterstroke； 机敏的策略，妙举

Example sentence:

1. On March 10, 1948, Masaryk's body was found beneath the window of this apartment in the Czechoslovak foreign ministry. The authority declared it suicide. My Parent - and most Czechoslovak democrats - believe it was murder.

For my parents, the coup meant the end of their of dream of a free Czechoslovakia. I did not see them until later that spring when they came to Switzerland to inform me that my father had a new assignment, this time with UN.

1948年3月10日，Masaryk的尸体在他捷克外交部公寓里的窗户下面被发现，当局宣布其为自杀。然而我父母，以及大部分捷克斯洛伐克民主党人相信是谋杀。
对我父母来说，政变意味着他们解放捷克斯洛伐克梦想的破灭。我到那年春末才见到他们，他们来他们来瑞典告诉我父亲有
新的委任，这次是联合国。（当时作者在Zurich的Chexbres寄宿学校学法语）

2. Coup d’état, also called Coup, the sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government by a small group. The chief prerequisite for a coup is control of all or part of the armed forces, the police, and other military elements. Unlike a revolution, which is usually achieved by large numbers of people for basic social, economic, and political change.
Coup d’état也叫Coup， 是指一小群人突然暴力推翻现有政府。政变的主要先决条件是控制全部或部分军队，警察以及其它军事力量。革命和政变不同的，革命通常是许多人为了寻求基本的社会，经济和政治上的变革而实现的。




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Czechoslovakia was established in 1918, at the end of World War I. It ceased to exist at the beginning of 1993 when the country fractured into its two main administrative divisions, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This map     shows important cities of former Czechoslovakia, including Prague, the capital and largest city; Bratislava, the second largest city; Brno, an     industrial city; and Ostrava, a transportation hub and metallurgical center.