把球送出去的人
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noun · B2
In cricket, the player who sends the ball down the pitch towards the batsman, trying to get the batsman out or to stop them scoring; also a player chosen for the team mainly because of this skill.
（板球）投球手
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 （板球）投球手 · 圓頂硬禮帽
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bowler
nOne person, alone at one end of a long space, sending a ball away towards a target at the other end. Everyone else waits and watches that one delivery. The ball leaves this person's hand and travels the whole distance; what happens at the far end — pins falling, a swinging — is the answer to what they just did. A bowler is simply whoever is at the sending end.
可以想成一條長長的空間，一端站著一個人，另一端有目標。那個人把球送出去，其他人都在看這一球。球離手之後走完整段距離，遠端發生的事（球瓶倒下、打擊手揮棒）就是對這一球的回答。bowler 就是「站在送球那一端的人」。保齡球館的球道和板球場的草地看起來差很多，但這個畫面是共用的。
From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives the word as bowl + -er, 'one who bowls'. The agent suffix -er names the doer, so the word points straight at the person doing the sending.
Wiktionary 記載這個字是 bowl 加 -er，也就是「滾球／送球的人」。-er 專門用來指「做這件事的人」，所以整個字就直接指向送球的那一位。
Wiktionary (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:737676187), etymology 1: "From bowl + -er."
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Also in this word
noun · B1
Someone who plays bowling — the game where you roll a heavy ball down a long smooth lane and try to knock over the pins standing at the far end.
打保齡球的人
A second word, same spelling
2
bowler
nA small hard dome sitting on a head, black, with a short brim that curls up at the sides. Think of half a ball turned upside down. It goes with a dark coat, an umbrella and a morning walk to a city office — a look that belongs to the past, which is why the hat now shows up mostly in old photographs, on stage and in cartoons.
可以想成一個小小的硬圓頂扣在頭上，黑色，帽緣很短，兩側微微翹起，像半顆球倒過來。它通常配上深色大衣、一把雨傘，和早晨走進城裡辦公室的身影。那個畫面屬於過去，所以今天這頂帽子多半出現在老照片、舞台、變裝派對和漫畫裡。
From the word’s history
Wiktionary records a separate origin for the hat: it is named after the hatmakers Thomas and William Bowler, who were associated with its early production. The hat shares only its spelling with the person who bowls a ball.
Wiktionary 記載帽子這個字有自己的來源：來自製帽師傅 Thomas Bowler 和 William Bowler，早期的生產跟他們有關。所以它跟「滾球的人」只是拼法一樣，並不是同一條線長出來的。
Wiktionary (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:737686398), etymology 2: "From the name of the hatmakers Thomas and William Bowler, associated with early production."