curveball

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A forespin pitch thrown by rotating the index and middle fingers down and resulting in motion down "curve"
    — He bit on a curveball in the dirt.
  2. An unexpected turn of events initiated by an opponent or chance; an exception or outlier. US,broadly
    — Life has thrown him a few curveballs.
动词 v.
  1. To throw a curveball.
    — Even though the haughty physics professors at the elite school ridiculed his declaration that he could make a baseball curve, Cummings just laughed it off and said, “I curveballed them to death,” according to Frederick Ivor-Campbell.

词形变化

curveballs plural curveballs present,singular,third-person curveballing participle,present curveballed participle,past curveballed past

词汇关系

衍生词
curveballer throw someone a curveball
相关词
throw someone a curve
并列词
fastball hardball slider cut fastball two-seam fastball split-finger fastball sinker screwball softball knuckleball

词源

词源 1
From curve + ball.
词源 2
From curve + ball.
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