英语词汇box score的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

box score. From its original baseball use to describe a con- densed statistical record of a game that includes the perfor- mances of both teams and all the players, box score has taken on the extended meaning of a record of results in any area, as in the box score of an elected political figure or corporate admin- istrator. Similar summaries of baseball games were printed in newspapers as early as 1853, but the term box score isn’t record- ed until the turn of the century, so named because these sum- maries were usually printed in boxed-off sections on the sports pages of a newspaper.

词汇	box score
词源	box score. From its original baseball use to describe a con- densed statistical record of a game that includes the perfor- mances of both teams and all the players, box score has taken on the extended meaning of a record of results in any area, as in the box score of an elected political figure or corporate admin- istrator. Similar summaries of baseball games were printed in newspapers as early as 1853, but the term box score isn’t record- ed until the turn of the century, so named because these sum- maries were usually printed in boxed-off sections on the sports pages of a newspaper.
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