lemming, shortstop, a pop fly, Lucky Seven, home run, center fielder

On Sept. 30, 1885, the Chicago White Stockings (now Chicago Cubs) were playing in a championship game.
A pop fly hit by a batter in the seventh inning was carried by a strong gust of wind and turned into a game-winning homerun. That was the beginning of the term Lucky Seven.

lemming

/ˈlɛmɪŋ/

noun

1. a small, short-tailed, thickset rodent related to the voles, found in the Arctic tundra.

   

   

   

   

   • a person who unthinkingly joins a mass movement, especially a headlong rush to destruction.

     "the flailings of the lemmings on Wall Street"

"My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"-- these were the last words of Jesus on the cross, and is the translation of the title of this film.

Minimal dialogue, beautiful sounds, desolate scenery-- With all of those aspects, I found 'Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani' to be a beautiful film. The story in itself is something unique and untouched before-- an illness that drives people to suicide, the only cure being sound... Acting by Asano Tadanobu only makes the film more stunning-- he plays his usual disconnected and silent character, but it was very effective in this film, maybe more so than in his other works.

pop

Baseball. To hit a short high fly ball, especially one that can be caught by an infielder: popped out to shortstop.

shortstop 

Pronunciation: /ˈʃɔːtstɒp/ 

NOUN

Baseball

A fielder positioned between second and third base:I hacked a ball to shortstop

陳耀昌

仔細想想，棒球中的游擊手這個位置，真是天才設計。沒有這個設計，棒球會變得攻守不平衡。但是這個原稱shortstop(短截），防守為主的位置，不知何以當初引進野球的日本人卻翻譯成攻擊味道的「游擊」（遊擊，是清代軍職名）。

shortstop

音節

 

shórt • stòp

1. [名詞]
2. 1 〔野球〕
3. (1)ショート(ストップ)：二塁ベースと三塁ベースの間の守備位置.
4. (2)遊撃手，ショート.
5. 2
6. (1)(また shórtstop bàth)〔写真〕 =stop bath.
7. (2)〔化学〕 重合停止剤.
8. 3 〔クリケット〕 ショートストップ：wicketkeeper の後ろで逸球を捕る人.
9. 4 ((米俗)) (食卓で)料理を他の人に回す前に取る人.

1. ━━ [他動詞]
2. 1 〔化学〕 〈重合反応を〉抑止する.
3. 2 ((米俗)) 〈料理を〉他の人に回す前に取る.
4. 3 ((米俗)) (店員の間で)〈他の店員の顧客に〉応対する.

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c1841.米語

all-around/all-round 多才多藝

She's a fantastic all-round/AM ALSO all-around sportswoman (=one with many different skills). [before n]

Like Jeter, Lemming is half white and half black, an all-star and an all-around

good citizen. (Nitpickers will note that Jeter plays shortstop and Lemming plays center field, and that Jeter is right-handed and Lemming, or at least Mr. Sunjata, is left-handed.)

She is a good all-round player, but she excels in tennis.她各種運動都行，尤其擅長打網球

音節

 

cénter fíeld

1. 1 〔野球〕 センター(フィールド)，中堅.
2. 2 〔野球〕 中堅手の守備位置.

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1857.米語

1. center fielder [名詞] センター，中堅手.

The position of the center fielder

flya fly ball
pop fly　【野】（高く上がった）ポップフライ.

home run noun [C] (INFORMAL homer) US
a point scored in baseball by hitting the ball so far that you have time to run all the way round the four corners of the playing field before it is returned