Like high jumpers, pole-vaulters attempt to clear a crossbar. 就像跳高选手一样,撑杆跳高选手也需要越过一种横杆。
The goalkeeper just managed to palm the ball over the crossbar. 守门员用手掌将球托出了球门的横木。
crossbar
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a horizontal bar that goes across something
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game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over
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long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts
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Crossbar \Cross"bar`\ (-b[aum]r`), n. A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down. --Russell.
{Crossbar shot}, a projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -- used in naval actions for cutting the enemy's rigging.