cricket
cricket 英 [ˈkrɪkɪt] 美 [ˈkrɪkɪt]
n. 板球，板球运动；蟋蟀
名词复数:crickets
- A cricket is a chirping insect that resembles a grasshopper. Cricket is also a popular British sport played with a ball and a flat bat. A cricket might be on the cricket field, but it’s too little to throw the ball.
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- n. 板球，板球运动；蟋蟀
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1. a cricket match/team/club/ball
板球比赛╱运动队╱俱乐部；板球
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2. the chirping of crickets
蟋蟀的唧唧叫声
- cricket (n.1) the insect, early 14c., from Old French criquet (12c.) "a cricket," from criquer "to creak, rattle, crackle," of echoic origin.
- cricket (n.2) the game, 1590s, apparently from Old French criquet "goal post, stick," perhaps from Middle Dutch/Middle Flemish cricke "stick, staff," perhaps from the same root as crutch. Sense of "fair play" is first recorded 1851, on notion of "cricket as it should be played."
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