单词 | half-back |
释义 | > as lemmashalf-back half-back n. (Association Football) a position immediately behind the ‘forwards’; a player in this position; also in other games, e.g. American Football, Rugby Football, Australian Rules. ΚΠ 1882 Standard 20 Nov. 2/8 The half-backs..effectually checked the threatened danger. 1887 M. Shearman Athletics & Football (Badm. Libr.) 346 A good half-back must be a versatile player. 1887 Cent. Mag. Oct. 892 Behind the quarter-back, and covering the two sides of the field, are the ‘half~backs’, the cavalry of the team. 1906 D. Gallaher & W. J. Stead Compl. Rugby Footballer v. 71 The half back as we know him in New Zealand is the donkey man of the team. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 53 He paused, crouched into a halfback's position, waiting for the ball. 1965 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 4 July 51 Sydney's half-back flanker Bob Sterling won the President's trophy. 1965 Advertiser (Adelaide) 17 July 25 Its half-forward line..was over-run by the powerful South Adelaide half-back line. 1968 R. D. Eagleson & I. McKie Terminol. Austral. Nat. Football ii. 14 There are three half-backs in each team: left, centre, and right half-back. 1969 Australian 24 May 39/2 Ian Bremner, Norm Bussell and Peter Chilton constitute a tight-checking half-back line for Hawthorn. < as lemmas |
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