bat

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Related topics: Animals, Sport

bat1 /bæt/ S3 noun [countableC]

1. HBAa small animal like a mouse with wings that flies around at night 蝙蝠 → fruit bat

a) DSa long wooden stick with a special shape that is used in some sports and games 球棒；球拍；球板

a baseball bat

棒球球棒

a cricket bat

板球球板

b) British EnglishBrE a round flat piece of wood with a handle, used to hit a ball in table tennis 乒乓球拍 SYN American English paddle

→4 See picture of 見圖 bat →5 see picture at 見圖 sport1

3. be at bat DSBto be the person who is trying to hit the ball in a game of baseball 〔棒球比賽中〕輪到擊球

4 do something off your own bat INDEPENDENT PERSON British EnglishBrE informal to do something without being told to do it 主動地做某事，自覺地做某事

She went to see a solicitor off her own bat.

她主動去找了律師。

Examples from the Corpus

do something off your own bat• He had made the most ancient blunder in the business quite off his own bat.• Instead, off her own bat, the girl went to see a solicitor in Newton Abbott, Devon.

5 do something right off the bat IMMEDIATELY American EnglishAmE informal to do something immediately 立刻去做某事

He said yes right off the bat.

他當即就答應了。

Examples from the Corpus

do something right off the bat• I asked him to help, and he said yes right off the bat.• At least not right off the bat.

6 like a bat out of hell informalFAST/QUICK very fast 極快地，飛快地

I drove like a bat out of hell to the hospital.

我飛快地開車趕往醫院。

Examples from the Corpus

like a bat out of hell• I drove like a bat out of hell to the hospital.• They took off like a bat out of hell for Tan Son Nhut.

7. old bat spokenWOMAN an unpleasant old woman 老家夥，老太婆

Examples from the Corpus

old bat• Most of our women in the House are frightful old bats.• She's a real old bat, she is.• I stuck some in once when we were a bit short and the old bat threatened to stop it out of my wages.• The old bat led me astray in more ways than one.• The old bats included a plastic, an aluminum and a wooden one.• But smoking was obviously kosher as far as this old bat went.

→ as blind as a bat at blind1

Examples from the Corpus

bat• The tunnel is a place only a bat could love.• The murder is perfectly executed, except that the baseball bat left at the scene of the crime is sticky with fingerprints.• Noctuid moths are eaten by bats, and have evolved a special pair of ears to warn them of approaching danger.• Our classmates tested five bats from K. C. Slammer.• Upon being blocked off from the courtyard, the bat would soon have led him to freedom.• This is tested by gagging the bats before releasing them.• Felt queasy after, but swung the bat okay and then came back to the hotel, which is small but clean.

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