pitch /pɪtʃ/ CET4 ( pitching, pitched, pitches )

• 1. 

  V-T If you pitch something somewhere, you throw it with some force, usually aiming it carefully. 投掷

  例：

  Simon pitched the empty bottle into the lake.

  西蒙把空瓶子投进湖里。

• 2. 

  V-T In the game of baseball, when you pitch the ball, you throw it to the batter for them to hit it. 投 (球) 给击球手

  例：

  We passed long, hot afternoons pitching a baseball.

  我们以打棒球来消磨一个个漫长的炎热午后。

• 3. 

  V-T/V-I To pitch somewhere means to fall forwards suddenly and with a lot of force. (向前) 跌倒

  例：

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

  突然的移动让他猝不及防，向前跌倒。

  例：

  Alan staggered sideways, pitched head-first over the low wall and fell into the lake.

  艾伦两侧摇晃着，一头栽过矮墙，掉进湖里。

• 4. 

  V-T If someone is pitched into a new situation, they are suddenly forced into it. 迫使进入 (一种新的处境)

  例：

  They were being pitched into a new adventure in which they would have to fight the whole world.

  他们当时正被胁迫参与到一次不得不与整个世界抗衡的新冒险中。

• 5. 

  N the degree of elevation or depression 程度

• 6. 

  N-UNCOUNT The pitch of a sound is how high or low it is. 音调

  例：

  He raised his voice to an even higher pitch.

  他将嗓门提得更高了。

• 7. 

  V-T If a sound is pitched at a particular level, it is produced at the level indicated. 使 (音调)达到(指定水准) [usu passive]

  例：

  His cry is pitched at a level that makes it impossible to ignore.

  他哭声之大让人不可能置若罔闻。

  例：

  His voice was pitched high, the words muffled by his crying.

  他的嗓门提得很高，说的话都被他的叫喊声压得听不清了。

• 8. 

  → see also high-pitched

• 9. 

  V-T If something is pitched at a particular level or degree of difficulty, it is set at that level. 给…设定水平 (或难度)

  例：

  While this is very important material I think it's probably pitched at too high a level for our students.

  尽管这是个很重要的材料，但我认为它的难度太大，不适合我们的学生。

• 10. 

  N-SING If something such as a feeling or a situation rises to a high pitch, it rises to a high level. (感情或形势等的) 程度

  例：

  The public's feelings were at a high pitch of indignation.

  公众的愤怒情绪达到了极点。

• 11. 

  V-T If someone pitches an idea for something such as a new product, they try to persuade people to accept the idea. 力荐(某主张)

  例：

  My agent has pitched the idea to my editor in New York.

  我的代理人已向我在纽约的编辑力荐这个想法。

• 12. 

  N-COUNT A pitch is an area of ground that is marked out and used for playing a game such as football, cricket, or hockey. 比赛场地 [英国英语]

  例：

  ...a football pitch.

  …一个足球场。

  例：

  He was the fastest thing I ever saw on a baseball field.

  他是我见过的在棒球场上跑得最快的家伙。

• 13. 

  N any of various heavy dark viscid substances obtained as a residue from the distillation of tars 沥青 → see also coal-tar pitch

• 14. 

  V to apply pitch to (something) 用沥青覆盖(某物)

• 15. 

  PHRASE If someone makes a pitch for something, they try to persuade people to do or buy it. 游说

  例：

  The president speaks in New York today, making another pitch for his economic programme.

  总统今天在纽约发表讲话，再一次游说他的经济计划。

• 16. 

  → see also sales pitch