英语词汇“drum and trumpet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P5. drum and trumpet (also trumpet and drum): attributive designating an account or story that focuses upon military matters and heroic deeds to the virtual exclusion of everything else; (esp. of history) characterized by this approach.

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1777 M. Morgann Ess. Dramatic Char. Falstaff 49 A name for ever dishonoured by a frequent exposure in that Drum-and-trumpet Thing called The first part of Henry VI.

1867 Sat. Rev. 13 Apr. 471/1 We are, of course, far from classing the History of the Norman Conquest with the mere ‘drum and trumpet histories’ which Dr. Shirley so pungently denounced.

1875 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 14 Aug. 1/1 It is history after the style of Macaulay, not a ‘drum and trumpet story’.

1907 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Dec. 390/2 We find..that politics ardently pursued tend to dwarf and annihilate private affairs, that it is all ‘drum and trumpet’ fiction.

1988 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 21 729 The author veers away from the ‘trumpet and drum’ history that is most popular among Nigerian historians.

2006 T. Cook Clio's Warriors vi. 219 These were, then, more than ‘drum and trumpet’ accounts or examples of vainglorious chest thumping.

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