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Definition of trumpet in English: trumpetnounPlural trumpets ˈtrʌmpɪtˈtrəmpət 1A brass musical instrument with a flared bell and a bright, penetrating tone. The modern instrument has the tubing looped to form a straight-sided coil, with three valves. 喇叭,小号 Example sentencesExamples - Soon afterwards, he joined the local brass band, learning first the trombone, then the trumpet and cornet.
- My mother played some piano and my father was able to play violin, some piano, saxophone, clarinet, trumpet and trombone.
- The Bohemian works were written for the keyed trumpet's predecessor, the valve trumpet.
- Flutes, saxophones, clarinets, trumpets and bassoons share the spotlight and take frequent solos that, like the vocals, often ramble aimlessly.
- As he ran he heard a distant bugle of a brass trumpet.
- On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three trumpets, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord.
- The band has 16 members - one vocalist and 15 who play instruments including trumpets, guitars, saxophones, trombones, drums and an organ.
- They were enrolled in beginning school ensemble programs, with most of them learning the clarinet, trumpet, flute or saxophone.
- This blended apparently effortlessly with vocals, a trumpet, flute, saxophone, guitars and drums.
- Children also get to learn the saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, guitar, violin, and drums, among other things.
- Such music is varied, but the instruments commonly used include trumpets, flutes, long brass horns, percussion frame drums, cymbals, and kettle drums.
- They are also accomplished musicians too, playing saxophone, trumpet, trombone, harmonica and acoustic guitar.
- He was a multi-instrumentalist skilled on the saxophone, the flute, the trumpet and other instruments he invented because he felt he needed a new sound.
- Dad played the saxophone, clarinet, trumpet or cornet, and the French horn.
- Nor is it all normal trumpets: this CD boasts piccolo trumpets, bass trumpets, cornets and flugelhorns, as well as a smattering of percussion.
- The furniture had been replaced with guitars, bells, trumpets and tambourines.
- Most of them were holding an instrument of some sort, whether it was a trumpet or trombone, snare drum or flute.
- I play a number of different instruments including guitar, trumpet, flute and saxophone, but my main interest is composing.
- While they were eating, a small jazz band in the corner, made up of only a trumpet, trombone, clarinet, tuba, flute, and drums, provided music.
- The corps currently has 40 members, aged from seven to 20, who play instruments including trumpets, cornets and flutes.
- 1.1 An organ reed stop with a quality resembling that of a trumpet.
(风琴的)小号音栓 Example sentencesExamples - Common trumpet reed names are Posaune, Bombard, Trumpet, and Clarion.
- If an organ has only one manual reed stop, it is often a Trumpet, and usually on the Swell.
- 1.2 A sound resembling that of a trumpet, especially the loud cry of an elephant.
喇叭似的响声(尤指大象的吼声) his voice blazed to a trumpet in his indignation Example sentencesExamples - As we headed back, we suddenly heard the trumpet of an elephant that was extremely close.
- There was no sound except the crackle of the fire, a hyena cry and the occasional trumpet of an elephant.
- It is a noise half-way between a lion's roar and the trumpet of an irritated elephant.
- Disney World's Animal Kingdom team has sorted elephant calls into trumpets, snorts, croaks, revs, chuffs, noisy rumbles, loud rumbles, and rumbles.
- The loud trumpet sounds from the Elephant large as he knocks down a tree in a single charge.
- 1.3 Something shaped like a trumpet, especially the tubular corona of a daffodil flower.
喇叭形物(尤指黄水仙的管状冠) Example sentencesExamples - Hybrids include ‘Tete-a-Tete’ up to 20 cm high with long lasting deep yellow flowers, ‘Jack Snipe’ and ‘February Silver’ both with white petals and yellow trumpets and ‘Beryl’ with primrose petals and orange trumpet.
- The Angel's trumpet flower produces a narcotic scent used by South American shamans to induce visionary dreams.
- If you want something a little different, try Digitalis Parviflora with its rust coloured flowers on upright stems, or Digitalis Ferringinea with its small trumpets of coppery-yellow flower.
- Everywhere I went, there were daffodils - a million yellow trumpets saluting the arrival of the brand new season, smiling up at the clear blue sky and the bright cool sunshine above them.
- In no time at all, as we descended into damper riverside places, there were daffodils trumpets nearly fully formed and fit for a photo.
- So far, I have never seen any hummingbirds there, although I am told that they find trumpet flowers irresistible.
- For a full century, King Alfred has set the standard for yellow trumpet daffodils.
- It's a member of the daffodil family, but looks much more delicate than the big yellow trumpet daffodils you see in people's yards in the spring.
- Close up, though, it looked like the trumpets of daffodils, which made them the most spring-like thing I saw all day.
- It produces large trumpet, ivory white flowers which open a lovely pale primrose yellow, fading gradually to pure white.
2trumpetsA North American pitcher plant. 北美黄瓶子草 Genus Sarracenia, family Sarraceniaceae: several species, in particular yellow trumpets (S. flava) Example sentencesExamples - The yellow trumpets should be grown in a bright place, with direct sunlight.
- Trumpets are found in bogs and in wet pine barrens.
- The yellow trumpets should be preferably located in a place where it can have at least a few hours a day of direct solar light.
verbtrumpeting, trumpeted, trumpetsˈtrʌmpɪtˈtrəmpət 1no object Play a trumpet. 吹喇叭,吹小号 a jazz band trumpeted on the stage behind, and the kids danced until dark Example sentencesExamples - They were trumpeting like crazy and inside this huge old concrete building, it was deafening.
- The avenues of carved deities, courtyards and temples are seething with trumpeting musicians and drummers, with processions escorting deities.
- London's trumpeting busker played the downtown streets and community for many years before giving it up this year.
- 1.1 Make a loud, penetrating sound resembling that of a trumpet.
发出喇叭声似的响声 wild elephants trumpeting in the bush 野象在灌木林中吼叫。 Example sentencesExamples - The child heard a loud trumpeting and jumped in fright, spinning around to see what it was while clutching the creature tightly, just as it was grasping him.
- A quarter of an hour thus passed; then suddenly one of the elephants trumpeted, and a tremendous crashing in the reeds ensued.
- So, along with chemical signals and higher range trumpeting and shrieks, elephants have an extensive range of communication.
- Five times a jackal barks in the cold season, and the elephants trumpet and donkeys bay many times more.
- The loud trumpeting is resulting in the elephants fleeing in panic.
- In general, vocalizations are varied and include: trumpeting, whistles, twitters, honks, barks, grunts, quacks, croaks and growls.
- But we saw lots of keweel animals, and the elephants decided to put on a real show, trumpeting and running around their compound.
- The air at Pinnawala rings with bellows and trumpeting, and the cries of ‘mahouts,’ wiry men in sarongs and flip flops who care for and instruct the elephants.
- We were walking along the path to our tents when a loud trumpeting stopped us in our tracks.
- Animal noises trumpeted, and the figures around her exploded into motion.
- ‘The elephants got really scared, and the matriarch made these very powerful warning calls, and then the herd took off screaming and trumpeting,’ she recalls.
- It's a safari postcard moment: A family of elephants rush together, rumbling, trumpeting, and screaming, their chorused voices deafening in the wilderness.
- And then, suddenly, cheery music started trumpeting out of the loudspeakers and over a hundred of the students who had left the hall, re-entered it dressed in matching shirts, laughing and dancing to the music.
- To playback sounds of galloping, roaring and trumpeting, the horses, lions and jumbos enthralled the parents who had a tough time to spot their tots in the masked group.
- Besides trumpeting, they also communicate with other sounds.
- Through the center is a pipe that allows the elephant to make the loud trumpeting noise; it can also hold 4 litres of water.
- The streets erupt in a saturnalia of lawlessness, to which the director adds an inspired touch: an escaped elephant from Barnum's circus trumpeting down the rubble-strewn streets.
- Later, the chorus was taken up by elephants trumpeting as they came down to drink.
- The animal screamed in terror, and began running wildly, trumpeting and yelling.
- The elephant climbed up the 1676 metre Doi Suthep, or Suthep Mountain, but when it neared the summit it trumpeted and died.
Synonyms shout, bellow, roar, yell, cry out, call out informal holler
2with object Proclaim widely or loudly. 广为宣告;大声宣告;大肆宣传 the press trumpeted another defeat for the government 报界大肆宣传政府的又一次失败。 Example sentencesExamples - Frankly, this sounds like the kind of nonsense frequently trumpeted about period pains or conditions such as ME by people who have never experienced them.
- These kinds of serious decisions are rarely trumpeted in the public press, since the element of surprise is often critical to their successful implementation.
- Last December the party trumpeted that one sixth of the Norwegian population were immigrants and called for new immigration controls.
- If a modern celebrity were to support something of this nature it would be trumpeted constantly in the press.
- Yet the feat she trumpets most was, in June, gaining her peerage.
- Some politicians trumpet these results very loudly as some sort of achievement.
- Headlines trumpeting federal and state fiscal problems are commonplace across the nation.
- Although these funds are tiny, their awful performance is widely trumpeted in the financial press.
- That is something else the Government trumpeted.
- Each study is trumpeted by the press as the definitive study on the subject, only to have that view completely turned around a month later.
- The reason that she is not doing so is she does not like good figures; she wants to trumpet old and bad figures that actually do not relate to the reality, at all.
- How about trumpeting what you think makes your product good in a positive way?
- It hasn't worked very well, so now more traditional public health methods are coming back into use and being trumpeted in the press as major innovations.
- The significance of ice hockey to Canadian culture is widely trumpeted within the popular and even academic realms.
- The new breed of paper focused on sensational stories about city life and trumpeted the value of a popular press as a bulwark of democracy.
- Ironically, some of the very arguments by sociologists trumpeting that decline therefore encourage it.
- It's a position that security professionals have been trumpeting for some time.
- These results were widely trumpeted in the media as the long awaited ‘vindication’ of Atkins and his diet.
- A month ago, his Edinburgh branch was issuing a press release trumpeting the fact that 46 of those made redundant there had found retraining as gas central heating fitters.
- Announced in February, the deal was trumpeted as creating Scotland's biggest law firm - at least in number of partners.
Synonyms proclaim, announce, declare, broadcast, promulgate, noise abroad, shout from the rooftops, blazon
PhrasesTalk boastfully about one's achievements. 自我吹嘘,自吹自擂 he refused to blow his own trumpet and blushingly declined to speak 他拒绝自我吹嘘,羞红着脸不肯发言。 Example sentencesExamples - A spokeswoman for the association added: ‘We just want to blow our trumpet a little, as we are getting things done, which proves that a joint voice really can make a difference.’
- I'm not trying to blow my trumpet but it felt like the right thing to do…
- He would have been excused had he chosen to blow his trumpet a little, but that is not his style.
- But in the lead-up to the election she was happy to blow her trumpet over the achievements of her first term.
- It's perhaps not widely known because we don't always blow our trumpet.
- Similarly, even today there are some insignificant boisterous Christian groups who blow their trumpet and proselytise in an aggressive way.
- He seems to already be blowing his trumpet like he did the first time round.
- However, the company's new media division is clearly one area where Lawrence could quite easily blow his trumpet.
- ‘To blow our trumpet, because we are really confident about this, we believe we are the only company that has working IP telephony end-to-end,’ he said.
- Others blow their trumpet, but it's all pretty shallow.
Synonyms boast, brag, sing one's own praises, show off, swank, congratulate oneself
OriginMiddle English: from Old French trompette, diminutive of trompe (see trump2). The verb dates from the mid 16th century. Definition of trumpet in US English: trumpetnounˈtrəmpətˈtrəmpət 1A brass musical instrument with a flared bell and a bright, penetrating tone. The modern instrument has the tubing looped to form a straight-sided coil, with three valves. 喇叭,小号 Example sentencesExamples - The furniture had been replaced with guitars, bells, trumpets and tambourines.
- Flutes, saxophones, clarinets, trumpets and bassoons share the spotlight and take frequent solos that, like the vocals, often ramble aimlessly.
- They were enrolled in beginning school ensemble programs, with most of them learning the clarinet, trumpet, flute or saxophone.
- Dad played the saxophone, clarinet, trumpet or cornet, and the French horn.
- Most of them were holding an instrument of some sort, whether it was a trumpet or trombone, snare drum or flute.
- He was a multi-instrumentalist skilled on the saxophone, the flute, the trumpet and other instruments he invented because he felt he needed a new sound.
- The band has 16 members - one vocalist and 15 who play instruments including trumpets, guitars, saxophones, trombones, drums and an organ.
- My mother played some piano and my father was able to play violin, some piano, saxophone, clarinet, trumpet and trombone.
- Nor is it all normal trumpets: this CD boasts piccolo trumpets, bass trumpets, cornets and flugelhorns, as well as a smattering of percussion.
- As he ran he heard a distant bugle of a brass trumpet.
- I play a number of different instruments including guitar, trumpet, flute and saxophone, but my main interest is composing.
- The Bohemian works were written for the keyed trumpet's predecessor, the valve trumpet.
- Such music is varied, but the instruments commonly used include trumpets, flutes, long brass horns, percussion frame drums, cymbals, and kettle drums.
- This blended apparently effortlessly with vocals, a trumpet, flute, saxophone, guitars and drums.
- The corps currently has 40 members, aged from seven to 20, who play instruments including trumpets, cornets and flutes.
- While they were eating, a small jazz band in the corner, made up of only a trumpet, trombone, clarinet, tuba, flute, and drums, provided music.
- They are also accomplished musicians too, playing saxophone, trumpet, trombone, harmonica and acoustic guitar.
- Soon afterwards, he joined the local brass band, learning first the trombone, then the trumpet and cornet.
- Children also get to learn the saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, guitar, violin, and drums, among other things.
- On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three trumpets, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord.
- 1.1 An organ reed stop with a quality resembling that of a trumpet.
(风琴的)小号音栓 Example sentencesExamples - If an organ has only one manual reed stop, it is often a Trumpet, and usually on the Swell.
- Common trumpet reed names are Posaune, Bombard, Trumpet, and Clarion.
- 1.2 A sound resembling that of a trumpet, especially the loud cry of an elephant.
喇叭似的响声(尤指大象的吼声) Example sentencesExamples - There was no sound except the crackle of the fire, a hyena cry and the occasional trumpet of an elephant.
- As we headed back, we suddenly heard the trumpet of an elephant that was extremely close.
- Disney World's Animal Kingdom team has sorted elephant calls into trumpets, snorts, croaks, revs, chuffs, noisy rumbles, loud rumbles, and rumbles.
- It is a noise half-way between a lion's roar and the trumpet of an irritated elephant.
- The loud trumpet sounds from the Elephant large as he knocks down a tree in a single charge.
- 1.3 Something shaped like a trumpet, especially the tubular corona of a daffodil flower.
喇叭形物(尤指黄水仙的管状冠) Example sentencesExamples - Close up, though, it looked like the trumpets of daffodils, which made them the most spring-like thing I saw all day.
- The Angel's trumpet flower produces a narcotic scent used by South American shamans to induce visionary dreams.
- It's a member of the daffodil family, but looks much more delicate than the big yellow trumpet daffodils you see in people's yards in the spring.
- So far, I have never seen any hummingbirds there, although I am told that they find trumpet flowers irresistible.
- Hybrids include ‘Tete-a-Tete’ up to 20 cm high with long lasting deep yellow flowers, ‘Jack Snipe’ and ‘February Silver’ both with white petals and yellow trumpets and ‘Beryl’ with primrose petals and orange trumpet.
- If you want something a little different, try Digitalis Parviflora with its rust coloured flowers on upright stems, or Digitalis Ferringinea with its small trumpets of coppery-yellow flower.
- Everywhere I went, there were daffodils - a million yellow trumpets saluting the arrival of the brand new season, smiling up at the clear blue sky and the bright cool sunshine above them.
- It produces large trumpet, ivory white flowers which open a lovely pale primrose yellow, fading gradually to pure white.
- For a full century, King Alfred has set the standard for yellow trumpet daffodils.
- In no time at all, as we descended into damper riverside places, there were daffodils trumpets nearly fully formed and fit for a photo.
2trumpetsA North American pitcher plant. 北美黄瓶子草 Genus Sarracenia, family Sarraceniaceae: several species, in particular yellow trumpets (S. alata) Example sentencesExamples - Trumpets are found in bogs and in wet pine barrens.
- The yellow trumpets should be grown in a bright place, with direct sunlight.
- The yellow trumpets should be preferably located in a place where it can have at least a few hours a day of direct solar light.
verbˈtrəmpətˈtrəmpət 1no object Play a trumpet. 吹喇叭,吹小号 a jazz band trumpeted on the stage behind, and the kids danced until dark Example sentencesExamples - London's trumpeting busker played the downtown streets and community for many years before giving it up this year.
- The avenues of carved deities, courtyards and temples are seething with trumpeting musicians and drummers, with processions escorting deities.
- They were trumpeting like crazy and inside this huge old concrete building, it was deafening.
- 1.1 Make a loud, penetrating sound resembling that of a trumpet.
发出喇叭声似的响声 wild elephants trumpeting in the bush 野象在灌木林中吼叫。 Example sentencesExamples - In general, vocalizations are varied and include: trumpeting, whistles, twitters, honks, barks, grunts, quacks, croaks and growls.
- The elephant climbed up the 1676 metre Doi Suthep, or Suthep Mountain, but when it neared the summit it trumpeted and died.
- ‘The elephants got really scared, and the matriarch made these very powerful warning calls, and then the herd took off screaming and trumpeting,’ she recalls.
- Later, the chorus was taken up by elephants trumpeting as they came down to drink.
- The child heard a loud trumpeting and jumped in fright, spinning around to see what it was while clutching the creature tightly, just as it was grasping him.
- The animal screamed in terror, and began running wildly, trumpeting and yelling.
- Five times a jackal barks in the cold season, and the elephants trumpet and donkeys bay many times more.
- Through the center is a pipe that allows the elephant to make the loud trumpeting noise; it can also hold 4 litres of water.
- The air at Pinnawala rings with bellows and trumpeting, and the cries of ‘mahouts,’ wiry men in sarongs and flip flops who care for and instruct the elephants.
- The streets erupt in a saturnalia of lawlessness, to which the director adds an inspired touch: an escaped elephant from Barnum's circus trumpeting down the rubble-strewn streets.
- A quarter of an hour thus passed; then suddenly one of the elephants trumpeted, and a tremendous crashing in the reeds ensued.
- The loud trumpeting is resulting in the elephants fleeing in panic.
- It's a safari postcard moment: A family of elephants rush together, rumbling, trumpeting, and screaming, their chorused voices deafening in the wilderness.
- We were walking along the path to our tents when a loud trumpeting stopped us in our tracks.
- Animal noises trumpeted, and the figures around her exploded into motion.
- Besides trumpeting, they also communicate with other sounds.
- And then, suddenly, cheery music started trumpeting out of the loudspeakers and over a hundred of the students who had left the hall, re-entered it dressed in matching shirts, laughing and dancing to the music.
- But we saw lots of keweel animals, and the elephants decided to put on a real show, trumpeting and running around their compound.
- So, along with chemical signals and higher range trumpeting and shrieks, elephants have an extensive range of communication.
- To playback sounds of galloping, roaring and trumpeting, the horses, lions and jumbos enthralled the parents who had a tough time to spot their tots in the masked group.
Synonyms shout, bellow, roar, yell, cry out, call out
2with object Proclaim widely or loudly. 广为宣告;大声宣告;大肆宣传 the press trumpeted another defeat for the government 报界大肆宣传政府的又一次失败。 Example sentencesExamples - The significance of ice hockey to Canadian culture is widely trumpeted within the popular and even academic realms.
- Announced in February, the deal was trumpeted as creating Scotland's biggest law firm - at least in number of partners.
- Although these funds are tiny, their awful performance is widely trumpeted in the financial press.
- Headlines trumpeting federal and state fiscal problems are commonplace across the nation.
- How about trumpeting what you think makes your product good in a positive way?
- It hasn't worked very well, so now more traditional public health methods are coming back into use and being trumpeted in the press as major innovations.
- If a modern celebrity were to support something of this nature it would be trumpeted constantly in the press.
- A month ago, his Edinburgh branch was issuing a press release trumpeting the fact that 46 of those made redundant there had found retraining as gas central heating fitters.
- It's a position that security professionals have been trumpeting for some time.
- Each study is trumpeted by the press as the definitive study on the subject, only to have that view completely turned around a month later.
- That is something else the Government trumpeted.
- These results were widely trumpeted in the media as the long awaited ‘vindication’ of Atkins and his diet.
- Ironically, some of the very arguments by sociologists trumpeting that decline therefore encourage it.
- Last December the party trumpeted that one sixth of the Norwegian population were immigrants and called for new immigration controls.
- Yet the feat she trumpets most was, in June, gaining her peerage.
- Some politicians trumpet these results very loudly as some sort of achievement.
- These kinds of serious decisions are rarely trumpeted in the public press, since the element of surprise is often critical to their successful implementation.
- The new breed of paper focused on sensational stories about city life and trumpeted the value of a popular press as a bulwark of democracy.
- Frankly, this sounds like the kind of nonsense frequently trumpeted about period pains or conditions such as ME by people who have never experienced them.
- The reason that she is not doing so is she does not like good figures; she wants to trumpet old and bad figures that actually do not relate to the reality, at all.
Synonyms proclaim, announce, declare, broadcast, promulgate, noise abroad, shout from the rooftops, blazon
PhrasesTalk openly and boastfully about one's achievements. 自我吹嘘,自吹自擂 he refused to blow his own trumpet and blushingly declined to speak 他拒绝自我吹嘘,羞红着脸不肯发言。 Example sentencesExamples - I'm not trying to blow my trumpet but it felt like the right thing to do…
- But in the lead-up to the election she was happy to blow her trumpet over the achievements of her first term.
- He would have been excused had he chosen to blow his trumpet a little, but that is not his style.
- He seems to already be blowing his trumpet like he did the first time round.
- It's perhaps not widely known because we don't always blow our trumpet.
- Others blow their trumpet, but it's all pretty shallow.
- A spokeswoman for the association added: ‘We just want to blow our trumpet a little, as we are getting things done, which proves that a joint voice really can make a difference.’
- However, the company's new media division is clearly one area where Lawrence could quite easily blow his trumpet.
- ‘To blow our trumpet, because we are really confident about this, we believe we are the only company that has working IP telephony end-to-end,’ he said.
- Similarly, even today there are some insignificant boisterous Christian groups who blow their trumpet and proselytise in an aggressive way.
Synonyms boast, brag, sing one's own praises, show off, swank, congratulate oneself
OriginMiddle English: from Old French trompette, diminutive of trompe (see trump). The verb dates from the mid 16th century. |