umpire
noun /ˈʌmpaɪə(r)/
/ˈʌmpaɪər/
(also North American English, informal ump
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)- (in sports such as tennis and baseball
网球、棒球等体育运动 裁判员 - The umpire’s decision is final.
裁判的裁定是不可更改的。
Collocations DictionaryUmpire is used after these nouns:- baseball
词源late Middle English (originally as noumpere) (denoting an arbitrator): from Old French nonper ‘not equal’. The n was lost by wrong division of a noumpere; compare with adder. - The umpire’s decision is final.
