cricket
cricket — noun
1. a sport played on grass between two sides of eleven players each, in which the b
a sport played on grass between two sides of eleven players each, in which the batting side uses a flat wooden bat to strike a hard ball and earns points by sprinting back and forth between two clusters of upright poles called wickets
Théo spent every Saturday afternoon playing cricket with his school team.
play + cricket — common verb–noun collocation
The charity cricket match between India and Australia raised a large sum of money.
cricket match + between [teams]
In cricket, each side bats twice and bowls in turn over one or two days.
Haruto scored forty-two runs in the final cricket game of the season.
Cricket is a popular summer sport across the United Kingdom and Australia.
用法筆記
Cricket matches can last from a few hours (Twenty20 format) to five days (Test matches). The equipment includes a wooden bat, a hard leather ball, and three wooden stumps called a wicket.
常見錯誤
2. a small leaping insect with a dark body that produces brief chirping sounds, mos
a small leaping insect with a dark body that produces brief chirping sounds, most often heard after nightfall, by scraping its front wings together
A cricket in the garden chirped all night and kept Sari awake.
cricket + chirp — the sound a cricket makes
Ayesha heard a cricket rubbing its wings together behind the old wooden cupboard.
rub + wings together — how crickets produce sound
The brown cricket jumped across the patio and disappeared into a crack in the wall.
On warm summer nights the sound of crickets filled the air around the cabin.
Rafael caught a cricket in a jar and showed his brother how it made noise.
- grasshopper
a related jumping insect, but grasshoppers are typically larger, greener, and make sound by rubbing legs against wings, not wings together
用法筆記
Only male crickets chirp; they do so by rubbing a ridge on one wing against a row of teeth on the other wing. The chirping rate changes with temperature.
常見錯誤
cricket — verb
1. to take part in a game of cricket as a player
to take part in a game of cricket as a player
Luca played cricket for his university team during his years in London.
play cricket + for + team — common verb–noun collocation with team
The children played cricket on the village green until the sun went down behind the hills.
Elena played cricket every weekend when she lived in Australia with her family.
The neighbours used to play cricket together before the park was turned into a car park.
Nellie rarely plays cricket these days because she injured her throwing arm last season.
- play cricket
the far more common way to express the same meaning; 'cricket' as a verb is rare and slightly literary
文法句型
play cricket + (for + team/place) + (time expression)
用法筆記
The verb 'cricket' (as in 'to cricket') is very rare in everyday conversation; speakers almost always say 'play cricket' instead. The simple past form 'cricketed' and present participle 'cricketing' exist but are seldom used.