| 词汇 | up to par |
| 词源 | up to par. Someone performing or feeling up to par is per- forming or feeling much like he always does. But par is a U.S. golf term, from the Latin par, “equal,” dating to about 1898 and meaning “the score an expert is expected to make on a hole or course, playing without errors, without flukes, under ordinary weather conditions.” |
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