Trumpet

(verb.) utter in trumpet-like sounds; 'Elephants are trumpeting'.

(verb.) proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet; 'Liberals like to trumpet their opposition to the death penalty'.

(verb.) play or blow on the trumpet.

手打:萨曼莎

• The use of a megaphone or speaking trumpet for conveying the sound of the voice to a distance is based on the same principle. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This causes a sound of very great power, which the trumpet collects and compresses, and the blast goes out as a sort of sound beam in the direction required. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Put up 'A Voice from the Flames,' 'A Trumpet-warning to Jericho,' and the 'Fleshpots Broken; or, the Converted Cannibal. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And he smiled as to the note of a trumpet. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was Bartlemy time when I was shopped; and there warn't a penny trumpet in the fair, as I couldn't hear the squeaking on. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• With a speaking-trumpet! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• You have only to look at Keck, who manages the 'Trumpet. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• His warning voice was unheard, for the din which the knight himself occasioned by his strokes upon the postern would have drowned twenty war-trumpets. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But the intensity of the vibrations diminishes very rapidly with the distance; so that even with the aid of speaking-tubes and trumpets it is impossible to exceed somewhat narrow limits. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The trumpets sounded, and the knights charged each other in full career. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• For many years after this episode, the modern lead-lead type of battery thus brought forward with so great a flourish of trumpets had a hard time of it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I am confident that all the drums and trumpets of a royal army, beating and sounding together just at your ears, could not equal it. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• But Physician was a composed man, who performed neither on his own trumpet, nor on the trumpets of other people. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The trumpets then again flourished, and a herald, stepping forward, proclaimed aloud,--Oyez, oyez, oyez. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• When Tantor trumpeted, the great ape scurried with his fellows high among the trees of the second terrace. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

校对:伊薇特