| 词汇 | inning |
| 释义 | inning noun[ C ] uk /ˈɪn.ɪŋ/ us /ˈɪn.ɪŋ/ one of the nine playing periods in a game of baseball（棒球中的）局，回合 Baseball & rounders 1-2-3 inning ahead alley around the hornidiom at bat bomb curve heater hit the ball out of the parkidiom hitting coach home plate home stand horsehide sac solo spitter split-fingered fastball splitter squeeze play swing You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Parts & stages of competitions inning | American Dictionaryinning noun[ C ] us/ˈɪn·ɪŋ/ a numbered period of play in a game of baseball in which both teams bat (= try to hit the ball), or one team’s turn to bat in one of these periods: Cleveland scored three times in the ninth inning. Examples of inninginning Reasonable people might disagree whether someone had her fair innings. On an alternative view, a person's claim on resources steadily diminishes the longer she lives: she has had more of a fair innings. There is an allotted number of innings, a life span if you will, but the duration of a baseball game is not fixed. Note also that fair innings arguments are usually put forward in the context of the distribution of resources for saving or extending lives. Up to that point they have equal entitlement to healthcare; beyond the fair innings they are given very low priority. The older person is saved for certain, although she already had her fair innings. But if a person has had her fair innings, saving her has strictly smaller value (perhaps none at all). When they reach 70, they had their fair innings, and the remaining years are "bonus time". There is, however, another way of interpreting the notion of fair innings. Indeed, for any given baseball game it is possible that the game, or even the first inning, last for an entire year. In baseball, it is an inning victory for a team to get three opponent hitters out without scoring. As a person grows older, she approaches or reaches her "fair share" of life - her fair innings. A metaphysics to ponder between innings. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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