1. By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums.
七点以前乐队到达，决不是什么五人小乐队，而是配备齐全的整班人马，双簧管、长号、萨克斯管、大小提琴、短号、短笛、高低音铜鼓，应有尽有。
2. The section of a band or orchestra that plays trumpets or cornets.
演奏小号或短号的一个管乐队或管弦乐队的组。
3. There are cornets bugles, flugelhorns, and a number of others that are all similar to the trumpet in the way they are made and played.
长号，短号，粗管短号以及很多喇叭状的其他乐器被制造和演奏。
4. But as a sideline, he happens to collect cornets.
但业余，他也收藏小铜喇叭。