backstop

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An object or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
  2. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
    — Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar, this morning, said a time-limited backstop would be unacceptable, and has previously promised to vote down the UK’s Brexit withdrawal deal unless it features a satisfactory backstop.
  3. A wall or fence behind home plate.
  4. A catcher; the position of catcher. slang
    — Bench may be the greatest catcher subjectively, but he's not statistically. Statwise, Yogi Berra is the all-time backstop, regardless of which measure you prefer. Berra's Total-Z is one-third of a standard deviation higher than Bench's, and his Core-Z average is a point better.
  5. The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
  6. The longstop. dated
  7. The wicket-keeper. dated
  8. Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
    — […] to be set up in Indonesia with a phony book and school supplies company established in New York City as a backstop.
动词 v.
  1. To serve as backstop for. transitive
  2. To bolster, support. transitive
    — Russia signalled on Monday it would backstop the European Union's bailout of Cyprus despite anger that the weekend rescue deal would impose heavy losses on uninsured depositors, many of them Russian.

词形变化

backstops plural back-stop alternative backstops present,singular,third-person backstopping participle,present backstopped participle,past backstopped past back-stop alternative

词源

词源 1
From back + stop.
词源 2
From back + stop.
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