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A vuvuzela is a long plastic horn, usually about a metre long and often coloured, that football fans in South Africa blow at matches. You blow into it the way you blow a trumpet, and it makes one single very loud note — around 120 close up, which is about as loud as a chainsaw. One is ; a stadium full of them sounds like an enormous swarm of bees, and that is exactly the comparison almost every English speaker reaches for. The word entered world English suddenly during the 2010 World Cup, held in South Africa, when television viewers everywhere heard that constant buzzing behind every match and argued about it for a month. Some people loved it as the sound of African football culture; others complained they could not hear the commentary, and several European leagues went on to ban the horns from their grounds. So the word carries a date stamp: say 'vuvuzela' to anyone who watched football in 2010 and you bring back that summer. Today it is used for the object itself, and also loosely for any cheap plastic horn of that shape sold at sports events or festivals. You will sometimes see it used as a joke to describe a person or a newspaper that makes a lot of noise and says only one thing. It is an ordinary countable noun: a vuvuzela, two vuvuzelas.
嗚嗚祖拉（南非足球賽用的長塑膠喇叭，2010世界盃時聲名大噪的那種「嗡嗡」聲）
組成Borrowed from Zulu vuvuzela, connected to the idea of making a 'vu vu' noise — the word imitates the sound the horn itself makes.
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。
vuvuzelanoun/vuːvuːˈzɛlə/
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A trumpet-shaped horn, now usually plastic, that produces a loud buzzing sound.
- When the Manchester United squad walked through the arrival gates at Durban International yesterday, most players heard a vuvuzela for the first time.
- I’m talking, of course, about the vuvuzela. Essentially, a metre-long blowhorn, which you may struggle to get past a steward at an English football ground.
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。