英语词汇three strikes and you’re out的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

three strikes and you’re out; three-strikes law. These are both popular names for laws that provide a severe punishment for anyone who commits a third felony. The terminology is from baseball (see strikeout), though such laws have only been around since the 1980s. Writing of the three-strikes law in his book The Ticket Out (2004) author Michael Sokolove ob- serves: “For God’s sake, it doesn’t even hold up as a baseball metaphor. Three strikes and you’re out? Well, yes, but then you get three or four more at bats in the same game. And then hun- dreds of at bats over a whole spring, summer, and fall of base- ball. . . . [Baseball] is a sport of forgiveness and opportunity.”

词汇	three strikes and you’re out
词源	three strikes and you’re out; three-strikes law. These are both popular names for laws that provide a severe punishment for anyone who commits a third felony. The terminology is from baseball (see strikeout), though such laws have only been around since the 1980s. Writing of the three-strikes law in his book The Ticket Out (2004) author Michael Sokolove ob- serves: “For God’s sake, it doesn’t even hold up as a baseball metaphor. Three strikes and you’re out? Well, yes, but then you get three or four more at bats in the same game. And then hun- dreds of at bats over a whole spring, summer, and fall of base- ball. . . . [Baseball] is a sport of forgiveness and opportunity.”
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