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- a 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。
1.1
- an organ reed stop with a quality resembling that of a trumpet（风琴的）小号音栓。
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- 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）。
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- 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）。
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trumpets
a North American pitcher plant北美黄瓶子草。
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- Genus Sarracenia, family Sarraceniaceae: several species, in particular yellow trumpets (S. flava).瓶子草属, 瓶子草科：数种, 尤指黄瓶子草（拉丁名S. flava）。
verb
trumpeted, trumpeting
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- no obj. play a trumpet吹喇叭, 吹小号：
as adj. trumpeting figures of two trumpeting angels.两个吹号天使的画像。
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- 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。
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- with obj. 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。
短语
blow one's trumpet
- talk 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。
词源
Middle English: from Old French trompette, diminutive of trompe （see TRUMP2）. The verb dates from the mid 16th cent.