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clarion

/klar-ee-uhn/US // ˈklær i ən //UK // (ˈklærɪən) //

澄清,阐明,嘹亮,嘹望

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : clear and shrill: the clarion call of a battle trumpet.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an ancient trumpet with a curved shape.
    • : the sound of this instrument.
    • : any similar sound.

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Examples

  • Let its latest much-praised British stage adaptation be a clarion call for a stint on Broadway.

  • The National Front won its first-ever first-place finish nationally and sounded a clarion call across Europe.

  • This is ground level reporting at its most important, at its most clarion.

  • "The Third Jihad" was produced by a shadowy non-profit called the Clarion Fund, which now calls itself the Clarion Project.

  • “We heard of the horns in the hills ringing”—that was how the poets of Rohan evoked the clarion call to action.

  • Yet the Clarion opposes sweating and tyranny and hypocrisy, and does its best to defeat and to destroy them.

  • Like a clarion call the note rings in my ears, amidst the din of contending views and obscure phraseology.

  • We walked on so together to the spot where we first had met, and where first the thrush had sounded for us his elfin clarion.

  • He had unfolded the newspaper slowly and carefully, the sharp crackle of the paper would have been a clarion call to Agnes.

  • Three more steps will make a certain shot, and—out rang Jack's nasal clarion, loud and clear as the morte at a fox-chase.