新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

pitch

英 [pɪtʃ]

[NOUN, VERB]

词汇频率：

NOUN. 名词

pitches
1. [U 不可数名词] 音高
The pitch of a sound is how high or low it is.
双语例句
例：
He raised his voice to an even higher pitch.
他将嗓门提得更高了。
2. [SING 单数型名词] （感情或形势等的）程度
If something such as a feeling or a situation rises to a high pitch, it rises to a high level.
双语例句
例：
The public's feelings were at a high pitch of indignation.
公众已经愤怒到了极点。
3. [C 可数名词] 比赛场地
A pitch is an area of ground that is marked out and used for playing a game such as football, cricket, or hockey.

PHRASAL VERB. 短语动词

pitch for
1. [PHRASAL 短语] 争取
If someone is pitching for something, they are trying to persuade other people to give it to them.
双语例句
例：
It was middle-class votes they were pitching for.
他们试图争取的是中产阶级的选票。
pitch in
1. [PHRASAL 短语] 参与并帮助
If you pitch in, you join in and help with an activity.
双语例句
例：
The agency says international relief agencies also have pitched in.
该机构说，一些国际救援机构也参与其中并提供了帮助。

PHRASE. 习语

make a pitch , make one's pitch
1. 推销
If someone makes a pitch for something, they try to persuade people to do or buy it.
双语例句
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，再一次推销他的经济计划。

VERB. 动词

pitches , pitching , pitched
1. [T 及物动词] 投掷
If you pitch something somewhere, you throw it with some force, usually aiming it carefully.
双语例句
例：
Simon pitched the empty bottle into the lake.
西蒙把空瓶子投进湖里。
2. [T 及物动词] 投（球）给击球手
In the game of baseball, when you pitch the ball, you throw it to the batter for them to hit it.
双语例句
例：
We passed long, hot afternoons pitching a baseball.
我们打棒球来消磨一个个漫长、炎热的下午。
3. [I 不及物动词] （向前）跌倒
To pitch somewhere means to fall forwards suddenly and with a lot of force.
双语例句
例：
The movement took him by surprise, and he pitched forwards.
这一动让他猝不及防，向前摔倒。
例：
Alan staggered sideways, pitched head-first over the low wall and fell into the lake.
艾伦摇晃着歪向一侧，一头栽过矮墙，掉进了湖里。
4. [T 及物动词] 迫使进入（一种新的处境）
If someone is pitched into a new situation, they are suddenly forced into it.
双语例句
例：
They were being pitched into a new adventure in which they would have to fight the whole world.
他们被迫参与到一次不得不与整个世界为敌的新冒险中。
5. [T 及物动词] 使（声音）提高（到指定高度）
If a sound is pitched at a particular level, it is produced at the level indicated.
双语例句
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。
6. [T 及物动词] 给…设定水平（或难度）
If something is pitched at a particular level or degree of difficulty, it is set at that level.
双语例句
例：
While this is very important material I think it's probably pitched at too high a level for our students.
尽管这份材料很重要，但我认为它的难度太大，不适合我们的学生。
7. [T 及物动词] 推荐（某主张）
If someone pitches an idea for something such as a new product, they try to persuade people to accept the idea.
双语例句
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主张。