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单词 last post
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Definition of last post in English:

last post

noun
  • (in the British armed forces) the second of two bugle calls giving notice of the hour of retiring at night, played also at military funerals and acts of remembrance.

    they stood in silence as eight buglers played the last post
    figurative the end of the Cold War heralded the last post for the RAF base
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Corporal Stephen Pountney played the last post on the bugle and relatives laid wreaths in front of the memorial.
    • After a single bugle player performed the last post a minute's silence was held to remember those who never came home.
    • A bugle blew in the Ruhr on Sunday, sounding the last post for the postwar German model.
 
 

Definition of last post in US English:

last post

nounˌlæst ˈpoʊstˌlast ˈpōst
  • (in the British armed forces) the second of two bugle calls giving notice of the hour of retiring at night, played also at military funerals and acts of remembrance.

    they stood in silence as eight buglers played the last post
    figurative the end of the Cold War heralded the last post for the RAF base
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Corporal Stephen Pountney played the last post on the bugle and relatives laid wreaths in front of the memorial.
    • A bugle blew in the Ruhr on Sunday, sounding the last post for the postwar German model.
    • After a single bugle player performed the last post a minute's silence was held to remember those who never came home.
 
 
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