| 单词 | softball game | 
| 释义 | > as lemmassoftball game  a.   Originally and chiefly North American. In sense  1, as  softball field,  softball game,  softball team, etc. ΚΠ 1888    Centralia 		(Washington)	 Daily Sentinel 25 July  				The Chinese..have organised a soft ball baseball club. 1906    Harvard Graduates' Mag. Sept. 142/1  				The afternoon was given up to a soft ball game. 1915    Goodland 		(Indiana)	 Herald 3 Apr. 1/5  				A soft ball team will be organized for the summer. 1927    Mich. Alumnus 5 Mar. 432/2  				On the first warm days of the spring the fraternity back yards are filled with soft ball players. 1930    Junior-Senior High School Clearing House 5 171/2  				In the Softball League, there were 6 ninth, 5 eighth, and 4 seventh-grade teams. 1957    J. Kerouac On the Road  iii. i. 180  				A softball game was going on under floodlights. 1958    D. Pacey Picnic & Other Stories 135  				On the softball diamond young shoe-clerks and insurance salesmen showed their circle of watching wives that they could still throw a mean curve or belt a long ball. 1977    J. Cheever Falconer 4  				There was a softball field where the gallows had stood. 1995    J. Grisham Rainmaker xviii. 153  				He was wielding an aluminum softball bat. 2006    F. Wilczek Fantastic Realities 444  				The ‘Princeton Eulers’, a softball team I organized at the Institute for Advanced Study. 2008    J. O'Neill Netherland 		(2009)	 10  				Cricketers were not licensed to take the field until the completion of any authorized softball game. < as lemmas | 
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