ball
ball 英 [bɔ:l] 美 [bɔl]
n. 球 vi. 成球状
进行时:balling 过去式:balled 过去分词:balled 第三人称单数:balls 名词复数:balls
- Always round, often bouncy, a ball is a vital part of many games and sports, from soccer to four square to ping pong.
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- n. 球
- vi. 成球状
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1. a golf/tennis ball
高尔夫球；网球
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2. a huge ball of fire
一个巨大的火球
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3. Her hands balled into fists.
她双手攥拳。
- ball (n.1) "round object, compact spherical body," also "a ball used in a game," c. 1200, probably from an unrecorded Old English *beal, *beall (evidenced by the diminutive bealluc "testicle"), or from cognate Old Norse bollr "ball," from Proto-Germanic *balluz (source also of Dutch bal, Flemish bal, Old High German ballo, German Ball), from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell."
- ball (n.2) "dancing party, social assembly for dancing," 1630s, from French, from Old French baller "to dance," from Late Latin ballare "to dance," from Greek ballizein "to dance, jump about," literally "to throw one's body" (ancient Greek dancing being highly athletic), from PIE root *gwele- "to throw, reach." Extended meaning "very enjoyable time" is American English slang from 1945, perhaps 1930s in African-American vernacular.
- ball (v.) 1650s, "make into a ball," from ball (n.1). Intransitive sense of "become like a ball, form a compact cluster" is from 1713; that of "to copulate" is first recorded 1940s in jazz slang, either from the noun sense of "testicle" or "enjoyable time" (from ball (n.2)). Related: Balled; balling.
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