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Softball is a sport much like baseball, played with a bigger, softer ball and on a smaller field, usually pitched underarm instead of . It's popular in schools and for women's sports teams in some countries, including in Taiwan and the US. Outside of sport, "a softball question" is a slang way to describe an easy question, one that isn't meant to challenge or trouble the person answering it.
壘球；（口語）簡單、不刁難的問題
組成"Soft" (not hard) + "ball" — named for its bigger, softer ball compared to a baseball.
同家族的字
- baseballclosely related sport with similar rules and equipment
原始詞典資料3 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。
softballnoun
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hobbieslifestylesportsA game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.
- This will give you someone with whom you can trade softball complaints, which any veteran game-goer will tell you is the key to a good time.
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hobbieslifestylesportsThe ball used to play the sport.
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A question designed to be easy to answer.
- a softball interview
- Each man got his share of softballs on Friday night. But for 90 minutes in a dressed-up basketball arena at Washington University, the two candidates were also forced to address the kind of questions they get rarely if ever on the campaign trail: from voters who doubted them and maybe did not even like them very much.
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。