- 1直球、速球（棒球用語；台灣球評兩種都說，和「曲球」相對）。
In baseball, a fastball is a pitch thrown very hard and quickly toward the batter, usually as straight as the pitcher can make it. It is the basic weapon: the other pitches (a curve, a slider) work partly because the batter is afraid of the fastball. Speed is the point; there is less trick-spin than in those breaking pitches. People also use it as a verb: to fastball someone is to throw them that pitch. Away from the field, American speakers sometimes borrow it for a hard, direct question or a blunt move. Though actually, the everyday picture for a surprise question is more often a “curveball,” and an easy question is a “softball,” so do not force the metaphor if you are not sure. The sports meaning is the one that matters.
組成fast (adjective) + ball. A ball thrown fast. The verb is the same compound used as a verb.
原始詞典資料3 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。
fastballnoun
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ball-gamesbaseballgamesA high-speed pitch of a baseball.
- Cam Smith bounced to shortstop on a 100 mph fastball, and Jacob Melton also grounded out on an 86.9 mph curveball.
- 2
ball-gamesbaseballgamesA four-seam fastball, which is a backspin pitch thrown with a ball gripped in the direction to cause four of the seams of the ball to cross the flight path and released with roughly equal pressure by the index and middle fingers
- The pitcher had a blazing fastball.
fastballverb
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ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo throw (something) at a high speed.
- Kevin pushed away from the desk and fastballed it into the other man’s chest.
- Wyatt spurred his horse to the middle of the stones, reached into the corpse’s chest, yanked out the heart, and fastballed it at a vine-covered tree stump.
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