pitch是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 an area painted with lines for playing particular sports, especially football -- 運動場地；（尤指）足球場

  • a football/hockey/cricket pitch 足球／曲棍球／板球場

  • Supporters invaded (= ran onto) the pitch. 球迷都跑進了球場。

• 1 the level or degree of something -- 水準；程度

  • The piano and organ were tuned to the same pitch (= note). 鋼琴和風琴被調校到同一音調上。

  • If you teach children and adults in the same class, it's difficult to get the pitch (= level of difficulty or interest) right. 如果你把孩子和成人放在同一個班裡教，就很難完全找出適合學生的難度和他們的興趣。

  • By this time their disagreement had reached such a pitch that there was no hope of an amicable conclusion. 此時，他們的歧見已大得不可能善罷甘休。

  • The children were at fever pitch (= very excited) the day before the party. 派對的前一天孩子都特別興奮。

• 2 a speech or act that attempts to persuade someone to buy or do something -- 推銷用語；推銷

  • The man in the shop gave me his (sales) pitch about quality and reliability. 商店裡的那個男人向我大談最高品質，信譽可靠之類的推銷行話。

  • She made a pitch for the job but she didn't get it. 她竭力爭取這份工作，但沒有成功。

  • [ + to infinitive ] The city made a pitch to stage the Olympics. 該市竭力爭取主辦奧運會。

  • The flower seller was at his usual pitch outside the station. 那個賣花人就在車站外他平時的攤位上。

• 3 the amount of slope, especially of a roof -- （尤指屋頂的）坡度

  • This roof has a very steep/high/gentle/low pitch. 這個屋頂很陡／坡度很大／相當平緩／坡度很小。

• 4 a thick, black substance that was used in the past to make wooden ships and buildings waterproof -- 瀝青，柏油

• 5 a throw in a baseball game -- 投球

  • a good/bad pitch 好／差的投球

• 6 the piece of ground on which you can put up a tent, park a caravan, etc. -- 露營地

  • We chose a large level grassy pitch for our caravan. 我們選了一片大而平坦的草地停下我們的旅行拖車。

• 7 to move or be moved suddenly, especially by throwing or being thrown -- （使）突然移動；（尤指）投，扔

  • She pitched the stone into the river. 她把石頭扔到河裡。

  • The ball pitched (= landed) short. 球投到了不遠處。

  • The bike hit a rut and I was pitched (forward) onto the road. 腳踏車卡進地上的車轍凹痕，我重重地（向前）摔在路上。

  • The ship pitched up and down/from side to side in the rough seas. 船在洶湧的海浪裡上下／左右顛簸。

• 8 in baseball, to throw a ball towards the player with the bat in order for them to try to hit it -- 投（球）

  • Who will be pitching first for the White Sox this evening? 今晚誰是白襪隊的第一個投球手？

• 9 to put up a tent and make it ready to use -- 支，搭（帳篷）

  • We pitched camp/our tent in the shade. 我們在陰涼處紮營／搭起帳篷。

• 10 to express or set something at a particular level -- 調校至某一水準

  • The tune was pitched (= the notes in it were) too high for me to reach the top notes. 調定得太高，高音處我唱不上去。

  • A teacher's got to pitch a lesson at the right level for the students. 老師必須把課程的難易度定得與學生的水準相符。

• 11 to try to persuade someone to do something -- 竭力勸說

  • She pitched her idea to me over a business lunch. 她在一次吃商業午餐時竭力遊說我接受她的想法。

  • They are pitching for business at the moment. 他們正在招攬生意。

• 12 to slope -- 傾斜