- 1捕手。棒球、壘球裡蹲在打者後面接球的那個位置。
In baseball, the catcher is the player who squats behind the batter. Their job is to catch the ball if the batter does not hit it, to stop wild throws, and often to signal the pitcher which kind of throw to send next. The word is simply catch + -er: the person who catches. Softball uses the same role and the same word. Other games can call someone a catcher too, but if a person says 'the catcher' with no extra explanation, they almost always mean baseball or softball. It is a position with special gear — a mask, a chest pad — because the ball comes in hard and close. It is not a general word for anyone who catches a bus, catches a cold, or 'catches' meaning understands.
From the word’s history
From catch + -er.
由 catch 加上 -er 組成。
組成From catch + -er: the person whose job is to catch.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
catchernoun/ˈkæt͡ʃə/
- 1
Someone or something that catches.
- 2
ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.
- Finding Dempsey in my mind's eye in January was not quite startling, ...but some other catchers turned up in my hot-stove reveries as well. Bob Boone, for instance.
- A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from the catcher when there was nobody on base.
- 3
The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men.
- 4
archaicA wrestler.
- 5
hobbiesice-hockeylifestyleThe webbed glove that the goaltender wears on the hand opposite the hand that holds the stick.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- mailcatcher
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。