核心畫面
You can hold the instrument as the picture for this whole word: a curved brass tube, narrow where you blow and opening out into a wide bell at the other end. That shape does one thing — it takes a small breath and throws it out loud and bright, so a trumpet can be heard across a whole field. Everything else the word does comes from that: a sound that is pushed outward, hard to ignore.
可以想成:那支銅管樂器本身——一頭窄窄的吹口,另一頭張成一個大喇叭口。這個形狀只做一件事:把一口氣變成又亮又大的聲音…更多收起
可以想成:那支銅管樂器本身——一頭窄窄的吹口,另一頭張成一個大喇叭口。這個形狀只做一件事:把一口氣變成又亮又大的聲音,整片操場都聽得到。這個字後來的用法都是從這個畫面長出來的——一種被往外推、讓人想忽略也很難的聲音。原始詞典資料15 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。
Trumpetnoun/ˈtɹʌmpɪt/
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slangA vocal political supporter of US President Donald Trump, especially online.
trumpetnoun/ˈtɹʌmpɪt/
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
- The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.
- In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.
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Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
- The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.
- Next day, he sent a trumpet to the general, with a detail of my misfortune, in hopes of retrieving what I had lost […].
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The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
- The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.
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One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
- I will the banner from a trumpet take
- That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times […] to be the trumpet of his praises.
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A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
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A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.
- The result of adopting the latter principle would be that even unimportant T-junctions would be in the form of trumpets or half-cloverleaf junctions.
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A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
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Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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slangA supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.
trumpetverb/ˈtɹʌmpɪt/
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To sound loudly, be amplified
- The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears.
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To play the trumpet.
- Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway.
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Of an elephant, to make its cry.
- The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet.
- The other, standing nearly head-on toward the hunters, had not proved so good a mark, and though every spear struck not one entered the great heart. For a moment the huge bull stood trumpeting in rage and pain, casting about with its little eyes for the author of its hurt.
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To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
- The bird trumpeted a second time. Dinah listened to the echo die around her.
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To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
- Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment.
- They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.
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。