英语词汇“sticky wicket”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(a) Cricket. Of the pitch: drying after recent rain and hence difficult to bat on. Chiefly in sticky wicket (see wicket n. 3c). Cf. sticky n. 3.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [adjective] > types of surface

fast1844

sticky1870

fiery1874

kicking1885

kicky1888

1870 Bell's Life in London 16 July 3/2 The wicket was sticky, from recent rain, and scores were small.

1871 Bell's Life in London 8 July 12/3 A sticky wicket conduced to the defeat of the Butterflies on the first innings.

1878 Leader (Melbourne) 10 Aug. 13/3 On a sticky wicket, with eighteen good men in the field, [he] was found extremely difficult to score from.

1924 A. C. Maclaren Cricket Old & New xiv. 140 On sticky wickets I should doubt if he ever put down a bad ball.

1948 Manch. Guardian 5 Jan. 2/7 The wicket was a sticky one at first.

1949 Chronicle (Adelaide) 3 Nov. 42/5 Few people realise that the first experience Don Bradman ever had of a sticky pitch was in his first Test match!

1996 T. N. Murari Steps from Paradise 63 It wasn't the cricket season but he wished it was. ‘A sticky wicket,’ he laughed. ‘I'd get a lot of turn on that once it begins drying.’

(b) figurative. colloquial. sticky wicket: an awkward or difficult situation. Chiefly in on a sticky wicket: facing an awkward or difficult situation; in difficulties. Also more fully in to bat (also play) on a sticky wicket: to contend with difficulties.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > have difficulty > have to contend with difficulties

to row against the (wind and) tide (also stream, flood, etc.)c1230

to have a tough (hard, long, etc.) row to hoe1810

to spell baker1868

to bat (also play) on a sticky wicket1930

1930 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 14 Apr. 6/4 I am afraid tonight, owing to the rain we have had in this island of Springs, I am batting on rather a sticky wicket.

1931 Times 8 Dec. 14/4 Paying a tribute to the work of Sir Stanley Jackson, who had held the office of Governor of Bengal during a most trying time, Lord Willingdon said:—He has played on a terribly sticky wicket all the time he has been here.

1952 National News-Let. 24 Jan. 244 It must be clearly understood that Mr. Churchill was batting on a very sticky wicket in Washington.

1957 P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble ix. 177 Until substantial reinforcements could arrive we should be batting, in the language of Mr. Naunton Wayne, on a very sticky wicket.

1964 Language 40 239 Enmeshed in these remarks, however, is a sticky wicket.

1971 Cabinet Maker & Retail Furnisher 24 Sept. 517 When it comes..to moulded plastics of various kinds, then the timber producer is on a stickier wicket.

2007 Economist 5 May 56/1 Some of the islands' economies may face a sticky wicket.

单词	sticky wicket
释义	> as lemmas sticky wicket (a) Cricket. Of the pitch: drying after recent rain and hence difficult to bat on. Chiefly in sticky wicket (see wicket n. 3c). Cf. sticky n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [adjective] > types of surface fast1844 sticky1870 fiery1874 kicking1885 kicky1888 1870 Bell's Life in London 16 July 3/2 The wicket was sticky, from recent rain, and scores were small. 1871 Bell's Life in London 8 July 12/3 A sticky wicket conduced to the defeat of the Butterflies on the first innings. 1878 Leader (Melbourne) 10 Aug. 13/3 On a sticky wicket, with eighteen good men in the field, [he] was found extremely difficult to score from. 1924 A. C. Maclaren Cricket Old & New xiv. 140 On sticky wickets I should doubt if he ever put down a bad ball. 1948 Manch. Guardian 5 Jan. 2/7 The wicket was a sticky one at first. 1949 Chronicle (Adelaide) 3 Nov. 42/5 Few people realise that the first experience Don Bradman ever had of a sticky pitch was in his first Test match! 1996 T. N. Murari Steps from Paradise 63 It wasn't the cricket season but he wished it was. ‘A sticky wicket,’ he laughed. ‘I'd get a lot of turn on that once it begins drying.’ extracted from stickyadj.² sticky wicket (b) figurative. colloquial. sticky wicket: an awkward or difficult situation. Chiefly in on a sticky wicket: facing an awkward or difficult situation; in difficulties. Also more fully in to bat (also play) on a sticky wicket: to contend with difficulties. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > have difficulty > have to contend with difficulties to row against the (wind and) tide (also stream, flood, etc.)c1230 to have a tough (hard, long, etc.) row to hoe1810 to spell baker1868 to bat (also play) on a sticky wicket1930 1930 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 14 Apr. 6/4 I am afraid tonight, owing to the rain we have had in this island of Springs, I am batting on rather a sticky wicket. 1931 Times 8 Dec. 14/4 Paying a tribute to the work of Sir Stanley Jackson, who had held the office of Governor of Bengal during a most trying time, Lord Willingdon said:—He has played on a terribly sticky wicket all the time he has been here. 1952 National News-Let. 24 Jan. 244 It must be clearly understood that Mr. Churchill was batting on a very sticky wicket in Washington. 1957 P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble ix. 177 Until substantial reinforcements could arrive we should be batting, in the language of Mr. Naunton Wayne, on a very sticky wicket. 1964 Language 40 239 Enmeshed in these remarks, however, is a sticky wicket. 1971 Cabinet Maker & Retail Furnisher 24 Sept. 517 When it comes..to moulded plastics of various kinds, then the timber producer is on a stickier wicket. 2007 Economist 5 May 56/1 Some of the islands' economies may face a sticky wicket. extracted from stickyadj.² < as lemmas
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