| 单词 | to take one for the team |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take one for the team P2. Originally North American Sport. to take one for the team: to undergo an unpleasant experience or make a personal sacrifice for the collective benefit of one’s teammates or (in later use in non-sporting contexts) one's colleagues or friends.In early use chiefly with reference to players sustaining injury in the course of a match. ΚΠ 1971 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 6 Aug. 9/4 Duane Larson ‘took one for the team’ and was awarded first base to load the sacks. 1987 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 29 May 6 c/2 ‘I saw it coming right for my leg so I decided to just kind of take one for the team,’ said Jefferson, Cedar Rapids' 19-year-old first baseman. 1997 B. Toropov Getting along with Difficult People iii. xv. 167/2 For some tough bosses, your best bet is to put the accent on the ways you..‘took one for the team’ if you hope to win a raise. 2011 Sun (Nexis) 7 Sept. 14 Nick revealed the dodgiest dish he had to taste was pork and bean dumplings with strawberries. He grimaced: ‘I took one for the team. Dylan refused to eat it.’ < as lemmas |
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