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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》


📖 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:

He stood up blowing a trumpet declaring, "In an era of sexual equality such policies are untenable."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。”

High up on the plateau, we could hear the elephants trumpeting in the distance.我们高高地站在高原上,可以听见远处大象的吼声。

The local government has been trumpeting tourism as a growth industry, but it has failed to expropriate the necessary land.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。

Their marriage was trumpeted as the society wedding of the year, even though their whole marriage had been a charade.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。

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

Their much-trumpeted "low low prices" affect only five percent of the goods that they peddle.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%。

He really isn't very clever but he is always blowing his own trumpet and squandering his parents' wealth.他真的不太聪明,总是自我吹嘘并挥霍他父母的财产。


📚 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: annou
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