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play catcher
表示担任球队中某个位置时，play 后直接接位置名词，不加冠词。
She plays catcher for the school team.
她在校队担任捕手。
捕手
catchers — plural of catcher
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
捕手
catcher
She plays catcher for the school team.
她在校队担任捕手。
棒球中接住投手投球的防守队员。
接住的人或物。
Someone or something that catches.
(棒球)担任捕手位置的人
(baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher
蹲在本垒板后方接投手投球的球员。
The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.
棒球队中站在本垒后面接住投手投球的球员位置
the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws
The catcher crouches behind home plate and signals the pitcher.
捕手蹲在本垒后面给投手打暗号。
AI contextual example
Our team's catcher caught the ball and threw it to second base.
我们队的捕手接住球并传向二垒。
AI contextual example
A good catcher needs quick reflexes and a strong arm.
一名好的捕手需要快速的反应和强壮的臂力。
AI contextual example
a catcher needs a lot of protective equipment
捕手需要很多防护装备
WordNet
表示担任球队中某个位置时，play 后直接接位置名词，不加冠词。
She plays catcher for the school team.
她在校队担任捕手。
定冠词 the 特指场上某一位捕手，中文翻译时常省略冠词。
The catcher signaled for a changeup.
捕手示意要投变速球。
复数形式 catchers 用于泛指捕手这一类人。
Catchers need quick reflexes and strong legs.
捕手们需要有快速的反应和强壮的腿部力量。
Not this
He is catcher on our baseball team.
Use this
He is a catcher on our baseball team.
catcher 是可数名词，但汉语没有冠词，学习者容易漏掉。指“一名捕手”时前面需要加不定冠词 a/an，加上 a 后句子才符合英语语法。
Not this
Our team's catch is very good at blocking balls.
Use this
Our team's catcher is very good at blocking balls.
这里要表达“捕手”这个职位/人，应该用名词 catcher。catch 作名词时指“接住”的动作或“值得交往的对象”，不能指担任捕手位置的人。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
捕手手套
The catcher's mitt is much larger than a normal glove.
捕手手套比普通手套大得多。
捕手护具
He put on his catcher's gear before the game.
比赛前他穿上了捕手护具。
担任捕手
She agreed to play catcher for the team.
她同意为球队担任捕手。
本垒板后的捕手
The catcher behind the plate signaled for a fastball.
本垒板后的捕手示意投快速球。
替补捕手
He is the backup catcher on the roster.
他是名单上的替补捕手。
先发捕手
The starting catcher was injured in the fifth inning.
先发捕手在第五局受伤了。
我就做个麦田里的守望者什么的吧。
This line from J. D. Salinger's novel 'The Catcher in the Rye' is why the word 'catcher' is famous outside baseball.
这句出自J.D.塞林格小说《麦田里的守望者》的台词，让“catcher”一词在棒球之外也变得广为人知。
Use catchers naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
catch(接)+er(人)，接住球的人就是捕手。
语域：neutral 常见场景：棒球比赛、体育新闻、棒球教学 该词在棒球语境中为中性标准用词，多用于比赛解说、体育新闻或教练指导；日常中提到棒球防守位置时也常直接使用。
catcher 与 hatcher、patcher、matcher、snatcher、dispatcher 押韵，都含 /tʃər/ 音。注意 catheter /ˈkæθɪtər/ 拼写开头相似但读音不同；cacher /ˈkæʃər/（藏匿者）也容易混淆，其 ch 发 /ʃ/ 而非 /tʃ/。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.