| 释义 |
stickball
noun[ U ]
USuk /ˈstɪk.bɔːl/ us /ˈstɪk.bɑːl/
a game similar to baseball played informally on the street with a stick for a bat, and a rubber ball: 棍球（儿童玩的一种类似棒球的游戏，以木棍做棒击打像皮球）
The neighbourhoods are filled with kids playing stickball.街区里到处都是孩子在打棍球。
Bill Jr grew up hearing about his father's stickball prowess.小比尔从小就听父亲炫耀他的棍球特长。
It's an area where his barefoot playmates play stickball.
He still remembers the day a skinny-legged new kid on the block asked to join their stickball game.
"It's like the Yankees playing a stickball team," he said.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Baseball & rounders
1-2-3 inning
ahead
alley
around the hornidiom
at bat
bomb
curve
heater
hit the ball out of the parkidiom
hitting coach
home plate
home stand
horsehide
sac
solo
spitter
split-fingered fastball
splitter
squeeze play
swing
|