| 词组 | baseball |
| 释义 | baseball The idioms of baseball are strictly beyond the purview of this book. They present, however, a ready trap for the unwary who are casually tempted to mix baseball with usage. Three brief instances will suffice to make the point. Mr. Vin Scully, a television sportscaster of considerable experience, stumbled over the expression "wait on the pitch" while announcing a World Series game in 1984. Apparently recalling some ancient or recent admonition to eschew wait on in favor of wait for, he made a remark about the ungrammaticality of the phrase. He had forgotten the game in his concern for "correct English." There is little reason to say a baseball batter is "waiting for" a pitch; if there were, the batter would in fact be waiting for the pitcher to do something. But when a batter "waits on" a pitch, the pitch is on its way and the batter is exercising self-discipline in order not to swing too soon. There is no matter of correctness here; the two phrases mean different things. The other two instances concern the expression between each. Freeman 1983 states that you cannot say "the pitcher rests between each inning." This is true; the baseball idiom is usually "between innings," and the statement itself is absurd. Between innings the teams exchange places, the fans visit the concession stands or the toilet, and the radio and television stations play beer commercials. Nicholson 1957 is essentially Fowler 1926 with some surface Americanization. Fowler's discussion of between each includes a lengthy illustrative example drawn from cricket. It was rather uncritically translated to baseball, with these somewhat ludicrous results: |
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