| 词汇 | cellar |
| 词源 | cellar. Cellar, for “the lowest position in league rank for a baseball team” is first recorded in a New York Times headline of July 9, 1922: “Red Sox Are Up Again. Leave Cellar to Athletics by Taking Final of Series, 4 to 1.” Thus the Philadelphia Athlet- ics were the first baseball team to be in the cellar. Cellar, for “an underground room or basement,” dates back to the 14th centu- ry and derives from the Latin cella, “cell.” |
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