论棒球运动对英语语言发展的影响

Influences of Baseball on English Language Development

棒球源起和发展于英语国家,起初人们通过借用基本生活词汇来定义和解释棒球术语和比赛规则,从而使英语词汇的意义得以扩展和延伸;之后随着棒球运动的普及,棒球术语和惯用表达式又以新的语义回归于日常生活用语中,成为习语的重要源泉,进一步丰富和充实了英语语言。日常生活用语与棒球专门用语之间的这种双向渗透和转化充分体现出棒球这一运动形式对英语语言发展的影响。

Sports cannot survive without language. Language is the carrier of sports culture, which exists in language. Baseball originates from and develops in English speaking countries. At the very beginning, people defines and explains baseball terminologies and competition rules by borrowing basic vocabularies in life, which results in the enrichment of their meanings. With the popularity of baseball, terminologies and expressions in baseball English are used frequently in the daily life and become the main source of the English idioms, which further enriches and replenishes the English language. This bi-directional conversion and penetration thoroughly embody the influence of baseball on English language development.