单词 | most valuable player |
释义 | > as lemmasmost valuable player most valuable player n. (also most valued player) Sport (originally Baseball and chiefly North American) the best or most successful player of a team during a season, series, or single match; frequently attributive (usually with capital initials), of an award given to such a player; also abbreviated as MVP (see M n. Initialisms 1). ΚΠ 1891 Lima (Ohio) Daily News 23 July [He] is the most valuable player on the diamond today. 1912 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily News 10 Oct. 1/1 Speaker, the Boston idol, was presented with an automobile, the award going to the most valued player in the American League. 1954 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 23 229/2 Roy Campanella, catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, was named Most Valuable Player in the National League for 1953. 1966 M. J. Shapiro Year they won Most Valuable Player Award 9 The very beginnings of the Most Valuable Player awards had in their creation the inclusion of intangibles that could never have precise measurement. 2000 N.Y. Times 12 Nov. viii. 7/5 Patrick Ewing was then regarded as one of the most dominant players in the N.B.A.—an annual most valuable player candidate. < as lemmas |
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