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trumpeter

/truhm-pi-ter/US // ˈtrʌm pɪ tər //UK // (ˈtrʌmpɪtə) //

小号手,喇叭手,小喇叭手,小号员

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who plays a trumpet; trumpet player.
    • : a person who proclaims or announces something with a trumpet.
    • : a soldier, usually in a mounted unit, whose duty is to sound the required trumpet calls.
    • : a person who proclaims, commends, or extols something loudly or widely; eulogizer.
    • : any of several large South American birds of the family Psophiidae, especially Psophia crepitans, related to the cranes and rails, having a loud, harsh, prolonged cry.
    • : trumpeter swan.
    • : one of a breed of domestic pigeons.

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Examples

  • Most jazz lovers know Blanchard’s extensive work as a trumpeter with an impressive body of work.

  • A decorated jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer, he has penned the scores for more than 40 feature films — including 17 of Lee’s films, earning Oscar nominations for 2018′s “BlacKkKlansman” as well as 2020′s “Da 5 Bloods.”

  • His father was a trumpeter in the big-band era and later a car salesman, and his mother was a nurse.

  • Alfredo “Freddy” Valles was an accomplished trumpeter and a beloved music teacher for nearly four decades at one of the poorest middle schools in El Paso, Texas.

  • Why did he get into arguments with petty people, like the trumpeter in his town?

  • The following summer, its hot trumpeter, Hieronymus Falk, was arrested by the Gestapo in a Paris café, and vanished thereafter.

  • Arch singles out trumpeter Guy Barker and drummer Clark Tracey for special mention.

  • Well, I am thankful yet—mine is a marvellous happy lot, to be better than a dead trumpeter!

  • I stumbled over a fat trumpeter in the field, stript and plunder'd, with his skin full of bullets.

  • At last the corps to which he belonged was worsted, and in the confusion of retreat the trumpeter was mortally wounded.

  • A trumpeter, seeing the man hesitate, sounded a warning, and the containing troops stood on the alert.

  • Quick work; but master trumpeter wasn't quite dead; nothing worse than a cracked head and three staved ribs.