British and American letter writers to the Financial Times have spent the past few weeks scrapping over whether “one-time” is a better phrase than “one-off”, how far cricket metaphors travel and whether “backstop” comes from baseball or from the older English game of rounders.
过去几周，英国和美国读者致信英国《金融时报》展开激辩，辩题包括“一次性”用“one-time”还是“one-off”来表达更好、板球术语的比喻用法能流传多广，以及“接球手”(backstop)一词是来源于美式棒球还是历史更悠久的英国圆场棒球。
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