英语冒号的用法及例句(小词详解trumpet)

trumpet 英 [ˈtrʌmpɪt] 美 [ˈtrʌmpɪt]

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外刊例句

What they are less likely to trumpet is how surprisingly well they are still doing there.但它们可能不大会嚷嚷自己在那里的业务仍好得出奇。——《经济学人》 The Trump administration will, of course, trumpet the deal as a triumph.当然,特朗普政府会把这个协议吹嘘为它的胜利。

基本释义

[noun] proclaim widely or loudly[名词] 广泛或大声地宣告

深入解读

上个月小站先后介绍了 tramp, trump 以及 trample 这三个单词,今天再来聊聊 trumpet 。

Trumpet 一词源自古法语 trompette (小号、喇叭),14世纪末进入英语后也是指“小号、喇叭”。小号又称小喇叭,是一种铜管乐器,常用于古典音乐及爵士乐,是铜管乐器家族中音域最高的乐器之一。要注意区别外观上与之形似的 bugle 指的是军队中用来吹信号的“军号”。

用作名词时, trumpet 除了表示上述含义外,还可以指“(乐队的)小号吹奏者、小号手”,以及引申指“绽开的水仙花”等“喇叭形物”、喇叭声似的“响亮声音”或象等大型动物的“吼声”等,比如:

他起立大声疾呼地宣称:“在性别平等的时代这样的政策是站不住脚的。”He stood up blowing a trumpet declaring, "In an era of sexual equality such policies are untenable." 我们高高地站在高原上,可以听见远处大象的吼声。High up on the plateau, we could hear the elephants trumpeting in the distance.

而用作动词时,除了自然表示用小号或喇叭“吹出”外,还引申指用喇叭声似的声音“大声说出、大声宣告”,比如:

当地政府一直积极宣扬旅游业是快速发展型产业,却未能成功征得必要的土地。The local government has been trumpeting tourism as a growth industry, but it has failed to expropriate the necessary land. 尽管他们的整个婚姻都是在做戏,但他们的联姻却被宣扬成当年的豪门良缘。Their marriage was trumpeted as the society wedding of the year, even though their whole marriage had been a charade.

一旦大声宣扬过了头,往往也就成了“吹嘘、鼓吹”这种贬义了,以至于发展出了习语 blow your own trumpet 表示“自吹自擂”,比如:

他们极力吹嘘的“一降再降”活动只包括他们所推销的商品的5%。Their much-trumpeted "low low prices" affect only five percent of the goods that they peddle. 他真的不太聪明,总是自我吹嘘并挥霍他父母的财产。He really isn't very clever but he is always blowing his own trumpet and squandering his parents' wealth.

名著用例

Many a woman—some of the Highest in the Land— have had a Trouble in their time; and why should you Trumpet yours when others don't Trumpet theirs?许多女人——有些世界上最高贵的女人——一生中也曾有过不幸;为什么她们就可以不声不响,而你却要宣扬出去呢?

出自英国小说家托马斯·哈代的长篇小说《德伯家的苔丝》(Tess of the d'Urbervilles)。小说最初在杂志上连载,1891年开始以书籍发行,主要讲述英格兰有个贫家少女名叫苔丝,她美丽、单纯且富有责任感,却遭到命运的捉弄。

同近义词

blazon: report (news), especially in a sensational manner proclaim: announce officially or publicly promulgate: promote or make widely known (an idea or cause)

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