meatball

释义

1. 球狀的絞肉或肉團，經過調味和烹飪。

   Meatballs may contain ground meat mixed with seasonings, breadcrumbs, mashed potatoes, rice, and liquid. The meat mixture is often shaped, browned. and simmered in a sauce for 30 to 45 minutes over low heat or in a 350° F. oven. During cooking the meat is basted with the sauce occasionally. Meatballs also may be fried in a pan or in deep fat.

   1894: Yearbook of Agriculture

   I prefer spaghetti with meatballs instead the meat all crumbled in with the sauce.

   1996: Mrs. Miracle. Debbie Macomber. Pg. 101.

2. 愚蠢的人。

   slang

3. 容易擊打的球（尤指直接扔到壘下的球）

   And then. A 98.4 fastball on the inside half of the plate, ring him up, Strike 3, game over. It wasn’t a meatball like Terrence Long watched to finish 2003 ALDS Game 5, but it felt the same.

   2020: "Oakland A’s faced all their nightmares in Game 3 and wrote a new ending" by Alex Hall, Athletics Nation

4. 光學著陸系統

   航空

   During a pitching deck recovery a pilot must average out the meatball oscillations at the ramp in an attempt to maintain his airplane on the desired glide slope.

   1961, Approach (volume 7)