英语词汇batting average的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

batting average; batting a thousand. Batting average has come to mean one’s degree of achievement in any activity, but the term dates back to 1865 when it was used only in baseball. There it is the measure of a player’s batting ability that is ob- tained by dividing the number of base hits made by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three deci- mal places. Batting a thousand is doing something perfectly. No one knows when the common saying came into the general language from baseball, but it is based on the fact that 1.000 is the perfect average in baseball with a base hit every time at bat.

词汇	batting average
词源	batting average; batting a thousand. Batting average has come to mean one’s degree of achievement in any activity, but the term dates back to 1865 when it was used only in baseball. There it is the measure of a player’s batting ability that is ob- tained by dividing the number of base hits made by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three deci- mal places. Batting a thousand is doing something perfectly. No one knows when the common saying came into the general language from baseball, but it is based on the fact that 1.000 is the perfect average in baseball with a base hit every time at bat.
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