把球送出去的人
核心畫面最字面的一種：真的有一顆球，真的從手上飛出去。
noun · B1
In baseball or softball, the player who throws the ball toward the batter to start each play.
（棒球）投手
這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 （棒球）投手 · （有握把的）大水壺
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pitcher
noun核心畫面
Someone standing in the middle with everyone watching, sending something forward and letting go of it. The ball leaves the hand and the play begins; the idea leaves the mouth and the decision is now the other side's. Pitch is the throw, -er is the one who does it.
可以想成一個人站在正中央，所有人看著他，把手上的東西往前送出去，然後放手。球離手，一局就開始了；點子講出口，決定權就…更多收起
可以想成一個人站在正中央，所有人看著他，把手上的東西往前送出去，然後放手。球離手，一局就開始了；點子講出口，決定權就換到對面那個人手上。pitch 是那個「投」的動作，-er 就是做這件事的人。這一族的意思都建立在同一個畫面上：送出去，然後接不接由別人決定。From the word’s history
Straightforwardly pitch + -er: the agent noun of the verb. Nothing to do with the jug, which came into English from Old French by a different road.
就是 pitch 加上 -er，動詞加上「做這件事的人」。跟裝水的那個 pitcher 沒有關係——那一個是從古法文另外一條路進到英文的。
Wiktionary, pitcher (noun, etymology 1: 'From pitch + -er'), packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:988872208:15910
From the picture
Also in this word
noun · C1
A person who makes a pitch — who presents an idea, a film or a product to someone, hoping they will buy it or pay for it.
提案的人；推銷的人
A second word, same spelling
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pitcher
noun核心畫面
A deep open container with a handle on one side and a lip into a point on the other: made to be lifted full and tipped so the liquid runs where you aim it. Everything in this group keeps that shape — the cold on a restaurant table, the two-handled clay jar carried home from a well, even the cupped leaf on a plant with standing in the bottom.
可以想成一個深深的、口敞開的容器：一邊有握把，另一邊的邊緣捏出一個尖嘴，做出來就是要讓人裝滿了提得動、傾斜時水流得準…更多收起
可以想成一個深深的、口敞開的容器：一邊有握把，另一邊的邊緣捏出一個尖嘴，做出來就是要讓人裝滿了提得動、傾斜時水流得準。這一族的每個意思都保留著這個形狀——餐桌上冰冰的大水壺、從井邊扛回家的雙耳陶罐，甚至是枝頭上那片捲成杯狀、底部積著雨水的葉子。From the word’s history
From Middle English picher, from Old French pichier 'small jug', from Late or Medieval Latin pīcārium. It is a doublet of beaker — the two words come from the same source and both name something you drink from.
來自中古英文 picher，再往前是古法文 pichier（小壺），更早是中世紀拉丁文 pīcārium。它跟 beaker（大口杯）是同源分出來的兩個字，兩個都指喝東西的容器。
Wiktionary, pitcher (noun, etymology 2), packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:988888118:26634
From the picture
拿來裝水倒水的容器
這一族就是核心畫面本身，差別只在年代和材質：一個在今天的餐桌上，一個在從前的井邊。
noun · A2
A deep container for holding and pouring a drink. It has a handle on one side and a shaped lip on the other to guide the liquid out, and it is usually big enough to serve several people.
（有握把的）大水壺
Also in this word
noun · C1
In botany, the deep cup-shaped leaf of certain plants, which holds liquid and traps insects that fall in.
（豬籠草的）捕蟲囊
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
Pitchername
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A surname.
pitchernoun詞源 1/ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/
- 1
One who pitches (in any sense) anything
- A tent pitcher
- A pitcher of ideas
- 2
ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe player who delivers the ball to the batter.
- 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
slangA drug dealer.
- To the residents of Spanish Harlem, these pitchers embodied the drug trade at its most sinister; they were the dealers and pushers who were destroying their neighborhood.
- 4
obsoleteslangOne who puts counterfeit money into circulation.
- To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.
- 5
The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
- 6
obsoleteA sort of crowbar for digging.
- 7
One who makes a pitch or proposal.
- The pitcher of the new film stands to earn millions.
- 8
obsoleteslangA person who sells anything in the streets.
pitchernoun詞源 2/ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/
- 1
A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
- At length, in a refrigerator, Eve finds a glass pitcher of water, pure, cold, and bright as ever gushed from a fountain among the hills.
- 2
biologybotanynatural-sciencesA tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
- Walking into the pitcher on downward pointing hairs, victims slip and drown in the funnel. But this beetle (left) was observed to visit with impunity and even appeared to be scavenging insect bodies from the pitcher.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。