| 单词 |
mid-field |
| 释义 |
mid-field
Also midfield.
[f. mid a. + field n.]
The middle of the field (in various senses of that word). Now chiefly in Assoc. Football. Also as quasi-adv.
a1400–50Alexander 955 He..metes hym in þe myd-feld with a much nowmbre. 1533Bellenden Livy ii. xiii. (S.T.S.) I. 181 Þe dictator..come on þe myd feild of sabynis..with his Oist of futemen. 1613Heywood Silver Age ii. i. Wks. 1874 III. 101 King Ptelera..with a fresh supply Takes vp the mid-field. 1897Badminton Mag. IV. 422 They [sc. rooks] quickly shift their position to safer quarters in mid-field. 1901Essex Weekly News 29 Mar. 8/3 Woodford were the smarter team in mid-field, but they did not equal Chelmsford in front of goal. 1909Westm. Gaz. 24 Nov. 12/2 C. Lyle shot well, but was very slow in midfield. 1956Times 16 Apr. 13/1 Haynes, in spite of the presence of Evans in mid-field, showed himself one of the very few inside forwards in the British Isles with a spark of true genius. 1968Listener 7 Nov. 625/3, I was aware..that Gilzean would be playing mid-field: I knew my Spurs. 1973Liverpool Echo (Football ed.) 17 Mar. 18/1 With Hughes pushing them forward with some strong play in mid-field, Liverpool hit back.
attrib.1896Bootle Times 18 Jan. 3/1 Midfield play ensued. 1960Times 30 Nov. 3/6 Certainly they had no penetrative midfield player. 1969[see link n.2 3 h]. 1974Times 23 Feb. 14/8 Even eight, nine and ten-year-olds these days are taught by games masters in terms of..‘midfield provider’, ‘sweeper’ and the rest. 1974Guardian 19 Aug. 16/2 The midfield men preferred the easy option of overlapping fullbacks to making their own breach. Ibid. 16/3 The painstaking midfield play of Kendall and Campbell. |
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