bugle
bugle 英 [ˈbju:gl] 美 [ˈbjuɡəl]
n. 喇叭；军号；筋骨草属植物 vt. 吹号集合 vi. 吹号；吹喇叭
进行时:bugling 过去式:bugled 过去分词:bugled 第三人称单数:bugles 名词复数:bugles
- A bugle is a very simple brass instrument. Bugles are commonly used in the military to mark parts of the day, including first thing in the morning.
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- n. 喇叭；军号；筋骨草属植物
- vt. 吹号集合
- vi. 吹号；吹喇叭
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1. The bugle sounded as the troops advanced.
军号吹响前进的号令。
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2. They went down to the railroad yards, with a bugle and an American flag, and hopped onto freight trains.
他们带着军号和一面美国国旗，来到铁路停车场跳上货车。
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3. There are different stories about how he got his nickname. One version says his friends started calling him Bingo, and later Bing, after characters in a local comic strip, the Bingville bugle.
关于他因何得了这样一个绰号，有不同的说法，一个说法是他的朋友开始叫他宾哥（Bingo），后来当地的一本连环画《Bingville Bugle》中的人物出现后，人们就叫他“宾（Bing）”。
- bugle (n.1) "brass musical instrument," mid-14c., abbreviation of buglehorn "musical horn, hunting horn" (c. 1300), from Old French bugle "(musical) horn," also "wild ox, buffalo," from Latin buculus "heifer, young ox," diminutive of bos "ox, cow" (from PIE root *gwou- "ox, bull, cow"). Middle English also had the word in the "buffalo" sense and it survived in dialect with meaning "young bull." Modern French bugle is a 19c. borrowing from English.
- bugle (n.2) "glass bead used to ornament dress," 1570s, of unknown origin.
- bugle (v.) "sound a bugle," 1852, from bugle (n.). Related: Bugled; bugling (1847). Also compare bugler.
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