| 单词 | bugle call | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasbugle call   bugle call  n. 		 (a) a signal or summons sounded on a bugle (also figurative);		 (b) North American the rutting call of a large deer; esp. the loud screams of a male wapiti (North American elk). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > 			[noun]		 > genus Alces (elk or moose) > sound made by bugle call1803 bugling1948 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > 			[noun]		 > sound of wind instruments > sound of bugle bugle blasta1500 bugle call1803 tiralee1847 1803    W. Scott Let. 10 July 		(1932)	 I. 195  				I can proceed no further being alarmed by the Bugle Call not indeed to summon to battle but to the less hazardous task of a Mess Dinner. 1889    H. W. Seton-Karr Ten Years' Wild Sports Foreign Lands vi. 137  				We..heard that wonderful, weird, awe-inspiring bugle call of the bull. 1911    Mariner′s Mirror 1 224/1  				What is the origin of the ‘first’ and ‘last post’ bugle calls used in H.M. ships? 1947    Life 17 Nov. 132/2  				It [sc. the Daughters of the American Revolution] was founded in 1890, after a journalistic bugle call was sounded in the Washington Post. 1983    Boston Globe 		(Electronic ed.)	 9 Oct. 1  				Schilla and Walsh talk..about the difference between an elk's bugle call and its grunt. 2011    G. Bethlenfalvay In Search of Amer. i. 27  				The plaintive chords of a distant bugle call wafting through mild waves of dusking evening air. 2016    Edmonton 		(Alberta)	 Herald 		(Nexis)	 9 June 		(Early ed.)	  b11  				You might spot a moose or hear the bugle call of a bull elk. < as lemmas | 
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