All you remember about your child being twelve is sitting in the stands during baseball practice and hoping your child's team would strike out fast because you had more important things to do at home.

孩子12岁时，你所记得的，是孩子在体育场打棒球练习赛时，你坐在看台上希望你孩子所在的队很快三击不中出局，因为家里还有更重要的事等你去做。

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A pitched baseball that does not pass through the strike zone and is not swung at by the batter.

一个投出的棒球，未通过击球区且未被击球手击中。

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Scott Burns: It's just like a baseball analogy. Three strikes and you're out. Generally you'll have a fairly steep slope. That's strike one.

斯科特·伯恩斯：（山体滑坡）就好比棒球比赛中的三振出局，一般先要有座相对陡峭的山坡，此为第一击。

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One case in particular involved a matter of enormous concern to many Americans, including me: the baseball strike of 1994 and '95.

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Major League Baseball had a disastrous strike in 1994 and their attendance dropped by 40%.

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One of her most prominent rulings came in 1995, when she sided with Major League Baseball players in a labor strike that had led to the cancellation of that season's World Series.

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