Pitcher
['pɪtʃə] or ['pɪtʃɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit; 'he has played every position except pitcher'; 'they have a southpaw on the mound'.
(noun.) an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
(noun.) (baseball) the person who does the pitching; 'our pitcher has a sore arm'.
(noun.) (botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer.
(noun.) the quantity contained in a pitcher.
黛拉校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
(n.) A sort of crowbar for digging.
(n.) A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
(n.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.
克林顿編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a vessel for holding water &c.—n. Pitch′er-plant a plant with leaves shaped like a pitcher or ascidium—Nepenthes &c.—Pitchers have ears there may be listeners.
整理:玛丽
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a pitcher, denotes that you will be of a generous and congenial disposition. Success will attend your efforts. A broken pitcher, denotes loss of friends.
安德烈整理
例句/造句/用法:
- They were about the size of those seen in old-fashioned country hotels for holding the wash-bowl and pitcher. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Oliver got up; walked across the room; and stooped for an instant to raise the pitcher. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Miss Gage brought a pitcher of water and a glass. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- She drew a pitcher of beer from the cask for the soldiers, and invited the sergeant to take a glass of brandy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Jo's one strong point was the fruit, for she had sugared it well, and had a pitcher of rich cream to eat with it. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request:--She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Thou hadst best empty thy pitcher ere thou pass it to a Saxon, and leave thy money at home ere thou walk in the greenwood. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- And she deposited the cup on the carpet, like a jailor putting a prisoner's pitcher of water through his cell-door, and retreated. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Babe Ruth was a pitcher then playing for Boston. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- There's a pitcher of water in the corner by the door. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- But canst thou construe me this, Sir Knight--When is thy wine-pitcher and thy purse better empty than full? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Now, dear Pa,' said Bella, taking him by both ears as if he were a pitcher, and conveying his face to her rosy lips, 'we are in for it! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And applying his black beard to the pitcher, he took a draught much more moderate in quantity than his encomium seemed to warrant. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- About one-third of his salary was used up in paying for pitchers. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- His main object in life seemed to be acquiring the art of throwing up wash-pitchers and catching them without breaking them. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Also the beer in pitchers all through the afternoon, the beer sweating in its coldness in pitchers the size of water jugs. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
手打:温迪