Picture one player walking out with a bat while everyone else waits. From that moment until they are out, the ground belongs to them: this is their turn, and nobody can take it early. That bounded turn is what innings names. Everything else the word does is that same picture, moved off the field — a turn in charge, a turn of luck, a turn at living.
From the word’s history
The source gives an old verb inn, meaning to house corn — to bring the harvest in. Your innings is the turn in which you bring yours in.
來源資料說 innings 來自一個老動詞 inn，意思是「把穀物收進屋裡」。可以想成：輪到你的那一段，就是你把自己的收成收回家的時候。
packet etymology_text (Wiktionary, innings etymology 1): From the old verb inn (to house corn).
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
inningsnoun詞源 1/ˈɪn.ɪŋz/
- 1
ball-gamescricketgamesOne side's (from when the first player begins to bat, until the last player is out) or individual player's turn to bat or the runs scored during those durations.
- 2
A comparable period of play in croquet or roque.
- 3
The time during which any party is in possession of power, or enjoying good luck, etc.; a turn of any kind.
- 4
A person's lifespan.
- Forty-odd. That's a better innings than Mozart's thirty-five. Only a moderate knock perhaps in an era brimming with space age technology, and transplants, and artificial hips etcet, but still higher than Mozart's.
- My mother-in-law died at 89 years of age, while sad and as you might expect, we used the phrase “she had a good innings”.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。