- N-COUNT (足球、板球、曲棍球等运动的)球场
A pitch is an area of ground that is marked out and used for playing a game such as football, cricket, or hockey.
- There was a swimming-pool, cricket pitches, playing fields...
有一个游泳池、几个板球场和运动场。 - Their conduct both on and off the pitch was excellent.
他们场上场下都表现出众。
in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 field
- VERB (通常指仔细瞄准后用力)投,掷,扔,抛
If you pitch something somewhere, you throw it with quite a lot of force, usually aiming it carefully.
- Simon pitched the empty bottle into the lake.
西蒙把空瓶子扔到湖里。
- VERB (猛地)向前跌倒
To pitch somewhere means to fall forwards suddenly and with a lot of force.
- The movement took him by surprise, and he pitched forward...
这一动使他冷不防地向前摔倒。 - Alan staggered sideways, pitched head-first over the low wall and fell into the lake...
艾伦身子倒向一侧,一头栽过矮墙,跌进了湖里。 - I was pitched into the water and swam ashore.
我被甩到水里后向岸边游去。
- VERB 迫使…进入(新的境地)
If someone is pitched into a new situation, they are suddenly forced into it.
- They were being pitched into a new adventure...
他们正被抛入一场新的冒险。 - This could pitch the government into confrontation with the workforce.
这有可能把政府推向与工人正面交锋的境地。
- VERB (棒球或跑柱式棒球运动中)把(球)投给击球员
In the game of baseball or rounders, when you pitch the ball, you throw it to the batter for them to hit it.
- We passed long, hot afternoons pitching a baseball.
我们通过投棒球玩打发了一个个漫长、炎热的下午。
- See also: He raised his voice to an even higher pitch. perfect pitch
- See also: His cry is pitched at a level that makes it impossible to ignore... His voice was pitched high, the words muffled by his crying... Her voice was well pitched and brisk. high-pitched low-pitched
- VERB 把…定(在特定的水平、难易程度等上)
If something is pitched at a particular level or degree of difficulty, it is set at that level.
- I think the material is pitched at too high a level for our purposes...
我想相对于我们的意图来说,内容定得过难了。 - The government has pitched High Street interest rates at a new level.
政府已设定了新的商业利率水平。
- See also: I feel very sorry for the competitors who have all worked themselves up to a very high pitch for this first day... Tension has reached such a pitch that the armed forces say soldiers may have to use their weapons to defend themselves against local people. fever pitch
- VERB 搭(帐篷);扎(营)
If you pitch your tent, or pitch camp, you put up your tent in a place where you are going to stay.
- He had pitched his tent in the yard...
他在院子里搭起了帐篷。 - At dusk we pitched camp in the middle of nowhere.
黄昏时分,我们在茫茫荒野中扎了营。
- VERB (船只在海浪中)上下颠簸,纵摇
If a boat pitches, it moves violently up and down with the movement of the waves when the sea is rough.
- The ship is pitching and rolling in what looks like about fifteen foot seas.
这只船在看起来约有15英尺高的海浪中上下左右颠簸。
- See also: The timbers of similar houses were painted with pitch. pitch-black
- See also: pitched
- See also: The President speaks in New York today, making another pitch for his economic program... Prue invited the magazine's editor to lunch and made her pitch. sales pitch