英语词汇extra innings的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

extra innings. A baseball game that goes into extra innings, a term first recorded in 1885, goes beyond the normal time played (nine innings). To go into extra innings is said of any ac- tivity that lasts longer than usual or that takes a long time, as in “We went into extra innings on that job.” The British phrase to have a good innings means to perform something well, but comes from the game of cricket, where innings (the singular would be inning in baseball) is the time during which a team or player is batting.

词汇	extra innings
词源	extra innings. A baseball game that goes into extra innings, a term first recorded in 1885, goes beyond the normal time played (nine innings). To go into extra innings is said of any ac- tivity that lasts longer than usual or that takes a long time, as in “We went into extra innings on that job.” The British phrase to have a good innings means to perform something well, but comes from the game of cricket, where innings (the singular would be inning in baseball) is the time during which a team or player is batting.
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