英语词汇“to be born on third”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P15. North American to be born on third (base): to be born with an advantage over other people; esp. to have inherited one's wealth or privileged position. Also in later use to be born on third base and think one has hit a triple and variants: to believe one's wealth or status is due to one's own merits or efforts, rather than merely inherited.With allusion to the game of baseball, in which players on the batting team must complete a circuit of four bases in order to score runs; a player at third base has already completed three-quarters of this circuit, and hence is only one base away from scoring.Cf. to be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth at spoon n. 3c.

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1934 Greeley (Colorado) Daily Tribune & Repulican 22 Jan. 8/2 A genius is one who seems a wonder because he was born on third base.

1935 Ironwood (Michigan) Daily Globe 17 Sept. 4/2 The professors and others so influential in framing national legislation are mostly men who were born on third base, and the burdens they are putting upon the people are borne by those of us who were born at bat with two strikes on us.

1988 N.Y. Times 20 July a21/2 Jim Hightower, the state's Commissioner of Agriculture, said the Vice President belonged to ‘an upper-class world in which wealth is yours at birth,’ and added, ‘He is a man who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.’

2016 J. Kargman Sprinkle Glitter on my Grave 20 Some..people..have real talent and deserve their hard-earned success. Others, as Dad would say, ‘were born on third base’, aka ‘come from the Lucky Sperm Club’.

单词	to be born on third
释义	> as lemmas to be born on third (base) P15. North American to be born on third (base): to be born with an advantage over other people; esp. to have inherited one's wealth or privileged position. Also in later use to be born on third base and think one has hit a triple and variants: to believe one's wealth or status is due to one's own merits or efforts, rather than merely inherited.With allusion to the game of baseball, in which players on the batting team must complete a circuit of four bases in order to score runs; a player at third base has already completed three-quarters of this circuit, and hence is only one base away from scoring.Cf. to be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth at spoon n. 3c. ΚΠ 1934 Greeley (Colorado) Daily Tribune & Repulican 22 Jan. 8/2 A genius is one who seems a wonder because he was born on third base. 1935 Ironwood (Michigan) Daily Globe 17 Sept. 4/2 The professors and others so influential in framing national legislation are mostly men who were born on third base, and the burdens they are putting upon the people are borne by those of us who were born at bat with two strikes on us. 1988 N.Y. Times 20 July a21/2 Jim Hightower, the state's Commissioner of Agriculture, said the Vice President belonged to ‘an upper-class world in which wealth is yours at birth,’ and added, ‘He is a man who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.’ 2016 J. Kargman Sprinkle Glitter on my Grave 20 Some..people..have real talent and deserve their hard-earned success. Others, as Dad would say, ‘were born on third base’, aka ‘come from the Lucky Sperm Club’. extracted from bornadj. < as lemmas
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