pitch

• vi. 倾斜；投掷；搭帐篷；坠落
• vt. 投；掷；定位于；用沥青涂；扎营；向前倾跌
• n. 沥青；音高；程度；树脂；倾斜；投掷；球场

来自中古英语pikken,刺，插，词源同peck,pike.引申词义扔，抛，投球，球场，倾斜等诸多词义。插入字母t,比较bake,batch,piece,patch.

来自古英语pic,沥青，柏油，来自拉丁语pix,沥青，柏油，来自PIE*pik,松脂，松香，来自 PIE*pei,脂肪，松脂，汁液，词源同fat,pine.

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);

"he was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors"

4. promotion by means of an argument and demonstration

5. degree of deviation from a horizontal plane;

"the roof had a steep pitch"

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);

"the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"

10. the action or manner of throwing something;

"his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor"

pitch (n.2)

"resinous substance, wood tar," late 12c., pich, from Old English pic "pitch," from a Germanic borrowing (Old Saxon and Old Frisian pik, Middle Dutch pik, Dutch pek, Old High German pek, German Pech, Old Norse bik) of Latin pix (genitive picis) "pitch," which according to Watkins is from a PIE root *pik- "pitch" (cognates: Greek pissa, Lithuanian pikis, Old Church Slavonic piklu "pitch"), but according to Pokorny this is from the same PIE root as pine (n.). The English word was applied to pine resins from late 14c. Pitch-black is attested from 1590s; pitch-dark from 1680s.

pitch (v.1)

c. 1200, "to thrust in, fasten, settle," probably from an unrecorded Old English *piccean, related to prick (v.). The original past tense was pight. Sense of "set upright," as in pitch a tent (late 13c.), is from notion of "driving in" the pegs. Meaning to incline forward and downward" is from 1510s. Meaning "throw (a ball)" evolved late 14c. from that of "hit the mark." Musical sense is from 1670s. Of ships, "to plunge" in the waves, 1620s. To pitch in "work vigorously" is from 1847, perhaps from farm labor. Related: Pitched; pitching.

pitch (n.1)

1520s, "something that is pitched," from pitch (v.1). Meaning "act of throwing" is attested from 1833. Meaning "act of plunging headfirst" is from 1762; sense of "slope, degree, inclination" is from 1540s; musical sense is from 1590s; but the connection of these is obscure. Sales pitch in the modern commercial advertising sense is from 1943, American English, perhaps from the baseball sense.

pitch (v.2)

"to cover with pitch," Old English pician, from the source of pitch (n.2).

throw, cast, fling, heave, hurl, pitch, toss

这些动词均有"抛，投，掷"之意。

throw： 普通用词，使用广泛，仅指用力抛掷，不涉及动作方式或感情色彩。

cast常可与throw互换，指迅速扔出一个重量较轻的物体。

fling： 指用力投掷，或因感情激动而粗暴地或漫无目的地扔东西。

heave： 指把重物举起后扔出。

hurl： 通常指用力投掷，动作迅猛，所投掷的距离也较远。

pitch： 指随意地、轻轻地掷或扔，侧重方向性和有明确的目标。

toss： 指无什么目的地、轻轻地、随意地掷或扔，所扔掷的东西一般都比较轻。

For them, the right kind of gamification might be turning their sales pitches into a competition with other team members, complete with a digital leaderboard showing who is winning at all times.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

a football/cricket/rugby pitch

足球 / 板球 / 橄榄球场

牛津词典

The rugby tour was a disaster both on and off the pitch.

这次橄榄球巡回赛在场上、场下都彻底失败。

牛津词典

a frenetic pitch of activity

活动的狂热极点

牛津词典

Speculation has reached such a pitch that a decision will have to be made immediately.

种种猜测甚嚣尘上，以至必须立即作出决定。

牛津词典

A basic sense of rhythm and pitch is essential in a music teacher.

基本的韵律感和音高感是音乐教师的必备素质。

牛津词典

an aggressive sales pitch

强有力的推销行话

牛津词典

the candidate's campaign pitch

候选人的竞选宣传

牛津词典

Each company was given ten minutes to make its pitch .

每个公司有十分钟时间进行推销宣传。

牛津词典

The explosion pitched her violently into the air.

爆炸把她猛烈地抛向空中。

牛津词典

There was a swimming-pool, cricket pitches, playing fields...

有一个游泳池、几个板球场和运动场。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Their conduct both on and off the pitch was excellent.

他们场上场下都表现出众。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Simon pitched the empty bottle into the lake.

西蒙把空瓶子扔到湖里。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The movement took him by surprise, and he pitched forward...

这一动使他冷不防地向前摔倒。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They were being pitched into a new adventure...

他们正被抛入一场新的冒险。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He raised his voice to an even higher pitch.

他把音调抬得更高了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He had pitched his tent in the yard...

他在院子里搭起了帐篷。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The timbers of similar houses were painted with pitch.

类似房屋所用的栋木刷了沥青。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典