英语词汇ballpark figure的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ballpark figure. An approximation based on an educated guess or a reasonable estimate is a ballpark figure. Only about 25 years old, the American expression obviously comes from baseball, ballparks being another name for the stadiums where baseball is played. The phrase probably derives from the 1962 coinage of in the ballpark for “something that is within bounds, negotiable, not out of reach”; out of the ballpark means just the opposite. Baseball stadiums were first called ballparks around 1900; before then they had been called ball grounds, baseball grounds, ball fields and baseball parks.

词汇	ballpark figure
词源	ballpark figure. An approximation based on an educated guess or a reasonable estimate is a ballpark figure. Only about 25 years old, the American expression obviously comes from baseball, ballparks being another name for the stadiums where baseball is played. The phrase probably derives from the 1962 coinage of in the ballpark for “something that is within bounds, negotiable, not out of reach”; out of the ballpark means just the opposite. Baseball stadiums were first called ballparks around 1900; before then they had been called ball grounds, baseball grounds, ball fields and baseball parks.
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