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A bullhorn is a cone you hold up to your mouth so your voice carries much farther. You speak into the small end; the wide end throws the sound out. Coaches, tour guides, protest leaders, and police use one in a noisy street or a big open space. It is a thing with its own little speaker — not a tiny microphone plugged into a huge sound system, though people mix those up. The word is especially American; in Britain people more often say megaphone. There is no bull involved. The “bull” is only the old habit of using that animal’s name to mean big and loud.
大聲公(手持擴音器)
組成bull (here: big, like the animal) + horn (the flared piece that throws the sound). Attested as a noun from the 1950s.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bullhornnoun/ˈbʊlˌhɔɹn/
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A megaphone which electronically amplifies a person’s natural voice.
- Iʼll press the trigger, and with a loud squeal of ear-piercing feedback, the bullhorn buzzes to staticky life.
- [Mark Zuckerberg] didn’t found Facebook to manipulate elections; Jack Dorsey and the other Twitter founders didn’t intend to give Donald Trump a digital bullhorn.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。