| 单词 | the bat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto (the) bat d. In baseball, the implement used to strike the ball or the act of using it; esp, in phrases at bat, hot (or right) off the bat, to (the) bat; also figurative. North American. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > equipment willow1846 baseball1853 bat1856 baseball bat1858 base bag1863 baseball glove1884 apple1902 rabbit ball1907 joystick1908 1856 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 6 Dec. 229/1 The bat or club [used in baseball] is of hickory or ash, about 3 feet long, tapering..and round. 1868 Iowa State Reporter (Des Moines) 21 Oct. 2/4 The penny was flipped to see who should go first to the bat. 1875 Chicago Tribune 18 Aug. 5/6 The fine play of the home nine..both in the field and at the bat. 1881 Sun-beam (Terre-Haute, Indiana) June 5/1 Picking up a base~ball bat. 1884 B. Nye Baled Hay 52 Common decency ought to govern conversation without its being necessary to hire an umpire to announce who is at bat. 1888 Outing May 118/2 Ferguson..sent the Cincinnatis to the bat. 1888 ‘M. Twain’ Meisterschaft 459 Whoever may ask us a Meisterschaft question shall get a Meisterschaft answer—and hot from the bat! 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee vii. 89 Step to the bat, it's your innings. 1904 Chicago Evening Post 23 Aug. 2 The Democrats, of course, claim they were first at bat. 1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 65 Turn loose your yarn at me hot off the bat. 1914 Maclean's Feb. 135/2 Get one that chums-up with your spirit right off the bat, natural like. 1955 New Yorker 21 May 76/3 You can tell right off the bat that they're wicked, because they keep eating grapes indolently. the bat the bat: the colloquial speech of a foreign country; chiefly in to sling the bat. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > a foreign language foreign language1555 uplandish1586 Welsh1598 outlandisha1626 lingo1659 second language1875 the bat1887 target language1965 foreign1971 1887 R. Kipling Three Musketeers in Civil & Mil. Gaz. 11 Mar. 3/1 T' sahib doesn't speak 't bart an' he's a little mon. 1889 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 67 An' 'ow they would admire for to hear us sling the bat. 1919 Athenæum 18 July 632/1 Native words picked up by the soldier in India who learned ‘to sling the bat’ (‘bat’ itself being another native word for ‘the language’). 1919 War Terms in Athenæum 8 Aug. 729/1 A variant for ‘sling the bat’ (speak the lingo) is ‘spin the bat’. 1924 Glasgow Herald 14 Apr. 10 He continued eagerly..‘that in the bat of the Arab “Shmallock” and “Amenak” mean “left” and “right”.’ < as lemmas |
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