on the ball

基本解釋

Keeping your eye on the ball remains the best advice.
保持你的眼睛在球上仍然是最好的建議。
Maybe then, I thought, I could find a way to prove I had something on the ball.
我想，那時候也許我就可以找到一個方法來證明我還是有兩把刷子的。
When he is chasing the ball, he is very excited and happy with all his thoughts on the ball.
當(dāng)他追趕球的時候，盡管他的思維很機靈，他是非常地興奮和開心的。
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Some teams are more possession oriented, meaning a little bit more low pressure on the ball and more skillful players.
And then, on the top of 3, we get another example: "In other words we've got to get on the ball, darling, what I'm saying, otherwise it'll be fluctuating and lack of true knowledge or crystallization of our plans."
然后，在第三頁上面，又有一個例子：,換句話說我們必須去這個舞會，親愛的，我是說，不然就會變得波動又缺少真知識,或使我們的計劃結(jié)晶化“
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選
There's just a kind of a stand and you put the ball on the stand and then you just hit it.
只有一個臺子，你只需把球放在臺上，然后擊打它。
會打棒球嗎？ - SpeakingMax英語口語達人

But when he is really on the ball, he finds them a job at Microsoft.
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