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trumpet

/truhm-pit/US // ˈtrʌm pɪt //UK // (ˈtrʌmpɪt) //

喇叭,小号,喇叭口,喇叭声

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Music. any of a family of brass wind instruments with a powerful, penetrating tone, consisting of a tube commonly curved once or twice around on itself and having a cup-shaped mouthpiece at one end and a flaring bell at the other.an organ stop having a tone resembling that of a trumpet.a trumpeter.
    • : something used as or resembling a trumpet, especially in sound.
    • : a sound like that of a trumpet.
    • : the loud shrill cry of an animal, especially an elephant.
    • : ear trumpet.
    • : trumpets, any of several pitcher plants of the southeastern U.S.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to blow a trumpet.
    • : to emit a loud, trumpetlike cry, as an elephant.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to sound on a trumpet.
    • : to utter with a sound like that of a trumpet.
    • : to proclaim loudly or widely.

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Examples

  • Conch shells fashioned into trumpets were found at the Peruvian temple complex at Chavín de Huántar.

  • Valles, a father of three, had been teaching one of his three grandchildren, 5-year-old Aliq Valles, to play the trumpet.

  • I started as a trumpet player, of all instruments, but it wasn’t cool and you could be cool on stage with a guitar and whatever.

  • Retelling this story isn’t to blow my own trumpet, it’s to make clear that you don’t have to be a marketer by training or commit a huge amount of time and resources to successfully market your startup.

  • The trumpet, of course, is not one of the customary sounds of springtime in the forest at Wolf Trap, the performing arts national park.

  • At night jineteras stalk the promenade in search of tourists while a trumpet from a bench serenades the proceedings.

  • A 4th grade Jessie James with a backpack and juice box, who practices trumpet and plays soccer.

  • He had already run through all his personal funds, but luckily the request worked (a trumpet was also traded).

  • But in more recent wars, where the emphasis has been on “credibility,” not victory, the trumpet has been uncertain, at best.

  • My wife and I named our son Gideon after Tony had sounded Gideon's Trumpet.

  • Roulard had played the trumpet in the regimental band in which Aristide had played the kettle drum.

  • How long shall I see men fleeing away, how long shall I hear the sound of the trumpet?

  • And I appointed watchmen over you, saying: Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet.

  • Blow the trumpet, let all be made ready, yet there is none to go to the battle: for my wrath shall be upon all the people thereof.

  • Not till Felix comes to her in the chamber above the dining hall—there where that trumpet vine hangs—comes to say good-by to her.