pitch
n. (体育比赛的)场地; 程度,顶点; 音高; 沥青
v. 抛,扔; 向前跌倒; 颠簸; 把(球)投给击球员; 把…定; 搭(帐篷)
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
The pitch of a sound is how high or low it is.
He raised his voice to an even higher pitch.
他把音调抬得更高了。
If a sound is pitched at a particular level, it is produced at the level indicated.
His cry is pitched at a level that makes it impossible to ignore...
他的哭喊声之大让人没法不理睬。
His voice was pitched high, the words muffled by his crying...
他的声音很高,嘴里的话因哭泣而含混不清。
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。
If something such as a feeling or a situation rises to a high pitch, it rises to a high level.
I feel very sorry for the competitors who have all worked themselves up to a very high pitch for this first day...
我为第一天就已耗费相当大体力的参赛者感到非常惋惜。
Tension has reached such a pitch that the armed forces say soldiers may have to use their weapons to defend themselves against local people.
紧张关系已达白热化程度,武装部队说士兵有可能不得不使用武器保护自己不受当地民众的伤害。
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。
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。
Pitch is a black substance that is sticky when it is hot and very hard when it is dry. Pitch is used on the bottoms of boats and on the roofs of houses to prevent water getting in.
The timbers of similar houses were painted with pitch.
类似房屋所用的栋木刷了沥青。
If someone makes a pitch for something, they try to persuade people to do or buy it.
The President speaks in New York today, making another pitch for his economic program...
总统今天在纽约发表讲话,再一次为他的经济计划作宣传。
Prue invited the magazine's editor to lunch and made her pitch.
普吕邀请该杂志的编辑共进午餐,推销自己的点子。
1. the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
2. (baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
3. a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk);
4. promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
5. degree of deviation from a horizontal plane;
6. any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
7. a high approach shot in golf
8. an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
9. abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance);
10. the action or manner of throwing something;
1. throw or toss with a light motion;
2. move abruptly;
3. fall or plunge forward;
4. set to a certain pitch;
5. sell or offer for sale from place to place
6. be at an angle;
7. heel over;
8. erect and fasten;
9. throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball;
10. hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
11. lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
12. set the level or character of;
throw, cast, fling, heave, hurl, pitch, toss
这些动词均有"抛,投,掷"之意。
pitch in 【非正式用语】
使劲干,投入:精力充沛地投入工作
协力,做贡献:配合他人;帮助或合作
pitch into 【非正式用语】
猛烈攻击:口头或武力攻击;攻击
pitch on 或 pitch upon 【非正式用语】
选出,决定,选定:成功且常是迅速地选定或实现
make a pitch
投标
pitch someone/thing against
(非正式)使争斗,使竞争
pitch in
(非正式)起劲地投入(任务,活动)
pitch into
(非正式)(起劲地)干工作,着手处理
pitch up
(非正式)出现;到达
pitch something up (或 pitch up)
(板球)投上旋球
It was more difficult to make our way up the mountain in pitch darkness.
昏天黑地的,山路更不好走.
They keyed a piano up to concert pitch.
他们把钢琴的音调升高到音乐会的高音标准.
Pitch bleeds freely from break in the bark.
树脂从树皮的裂口自然地流出来.
The examiners can pitch on any student to answer questions.
主考人可以指定任何一个学生来回答问题.
The crowd invaded the pitch at the end of the match.
比赛结束时人群涌入球场.