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（足球、板球、曲棍球等運動的）球場
A pitch is an area of ground that is marked out and used for playing a game such as football, cricket, or hockey.
例句
There was a swimming-pool, cricket pitches, playing fields...
有一個游泳池、幾個板球場和運動場。
Their conduct both on and off the pitch was excellent.
他們場上場下都表現(xiàn)出眾。
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VERB
（通常指仔細瞄準后用力）投，擲，扔，拋
If you pitch something somewhere, you throw it with quite a lot of force, usually aiming it carefully.
例句
Simon pitched the empty bottle into the lake.
西蒙把空瓶子扔到湖里。
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VERB
（猛地）向前跌倒
To pitch somewhere means to fall forwards suddenly and with a lot of force.
例句
The movement took him by surprise, and he pitched forward...
這一動使他冷不防地向前摔倒。
Alan staggered sideways, pitched head-first over the low wall and fell into the lake...
艾倫身子倒向一側(cè)，一頭栽過矮墻，跌進了湖里。
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VERB
迫使…進入（新的境地）
If someone is pitched into a new situation, they are suddenly forced into it.
例句
They were being pitched into a new adventure...
他們正被拋入一場新的冒險。
This could pitch the government into confrontation with the workforce.
這有可能把政府推向與工人正面交鋒的境地。
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VERB
（棒球或跑柱式棒球運動中）把（球）投給擊球員
In the game of baseball or rounders, when you pitch the ball, you throw it to the batter for them to hit it.
例句
We passed long, hot afternoons pitching a baseball.
我們通過投棒球玩打發(fā)了一個個漫長、炎熱的下午。
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音高
The pitch of a sound is how high or low it is.
例句
He raised his voice to an even higher pitch.
他把音調(diào)抬得更高了。
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VERB
為…定音高；為…定調(diào)
If a sound is pitched at a particular level, it is produced at the level indicated.
例句
His cry is pitched at a level that makes it impossible to ignore...
他的哭喊聲之大讓人沒法不理睬。
His voice was pitched high, the words muffled by his crying...
他的聲音很高，嘴里的話因哭泣而含混不清。
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VERB
把…定（在特定的水平、難易程度等上）
If something is pitched at a particular level or degree of difficulty, it is set at that level.
例句
I think the material is pitched at too high a level for our purposes...
我想相對于我們的意圖來說，內(nèi)容定得過難了。
The government has pitched High Street interest rates at a new level.
政府已設(shè)定了新的商業(yè)利率水平。
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程度；強度；極點；頂點
If something such as a feeling or a situation rises to a high pitch, it rises to a high level.
例句
I feel very sorry for the competitors who have all worked themselves up to a very high pitch for this first day...
我為第一天就已耗費相當大體力的參賽者感到非常惋惜。
Tension has reached such a pitch that the armed forces say soldiers may have to use their weapons to defend themselves against local people.
緊張關(guān)系已達白熱化程度，武裝部隊說士兵有可能不得不使用武器保護自己不受當?shù)孛癖姷膫Α?/i>
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VERB
搭（帳篷）；扎（營）
If you pitch your tent, or pitch camp, you put up your tent in a place where you are going to stay.
例句
He had pitched his tent in the yard...
他在院子里搭起了帳篷。
At dusk we pitched camp in the middle of nowhere.
黃昏時分，我們在茫茫荒野中扎了營。
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VERB
（船只在海浪中）上下顛簸，縱搖
If a boat pitches, it moves violently up and down with the movement of the waves when the sea is rough.
例句
The ship is pitching and rolling in what looks like about fifteen foot seas.
這只船在看起來約有15英尺高的海浪中上下左右顛簸。
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瀝青；柏油
Pitch is a black substance that is sticky when it is hot and very hard when it is dry. Pitch is used on the bottoms of boats and on the roofs of houses to prevent water getting in.
例句
The timbers of similar houses were painted with pitch.
類似房屋所用的棟木刷了瀝青。
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PHRASE
為…作宣傳；替…說好話
If someone makes a pitch for something, they try to persuade people to do or buy it.
例句
The President speaks in New York today, making another pitch for his economic program...
總統(tǒng)今天在紐約發(fā)表講話，再一次為他的經(jīng)濟計劃作宣傳。
Prue invited the magazine's editor to lunch and made her pitch.
普呂邀請該雜志的編輯共進午餐，推銷自己的點子。