pitch 1 S3 W3 / pɪtʃ / 名词

1 sports field [可数名词] British English a marked out area of ground on which a sport is played 同义词 field

football/cricket/rugby etc pitch

the world-famous Wembley football pitch

He ran the length of the pitch and scored.

on the pitch (= playing a sport )

Jack was on the pitch for his school in the Senior Cup Final.

2 strong feelings/activity [单数形式，不可数] a strong level of feeling about something or a high level of an activity or a quality :

The controversy reached such a pitch (= become so strong ) that the paper devoted a whole page to it.

a pitch of excitement/excellence/perfection etc (= a high level of excitement etc )

He screamed at her in a pitch of fury.

The goal roused the crowd to fever pitch (= a very excited level ) .

3 music

a) [单数形式，不可数] how high or low a note or other sound is :

Ultrasonic waves are at a higher pitch than the human ear can hear.

b) [不可数名词] the ability of a musician to play or sing a note at exactly the correct level :

She’s got perfect pitch .

4 persuading [可数名词] informal the things someone says to persuade people to buy something, do something, or accept an idea :

an aggressive salesman with a fast-talking sales pitch

make a/sb’s pitch (for something) (= try to persuade people to do something )

He made his strongest pitch yet for standardized testing in schools.

5 baseball [可数名词] a throw of the ball, or a way in which it can be thrown :

His first pitch was high and wide.

6 black substance [不可数名词] a black sticky substance that is used on roofs, the bottoms of ships etc to stop water coming through :

The night was as black as pitch (= very dark ) . → pitch-black , pitch-dark

7 ship/aircraft [不可数名词] an up and down movement of a ship or an aircraft → roll :

the pitch and roll of the ship

8 slope [单数形式，不可数] the degree to which a roof slopes or the sloping part of a roof :

the steep pitch of the roof

9 street/market [可数名词] British English a place in a public area where someone goes to sell things or where an entertainer goes to perform :

We found the boy at his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis.

→ queer sb’s pitch/queer the pitch for somebody at queer 3