(in football, rugby, hockey, and some other games) a pair of posts linked by a crossbar and typically with a net between, forming a space into or over which the ball has to be sent in order to score (足球、橄榄球、曲棍球及其他比赛中的)球门 ■an instance of sending the ball into or over this space, especially as a unit of scoring in a game 进球(尤指得分) the decisive opening goal. 决定性的开赛进球。 we won by three goals to two. 我们以3比2获胜。 ■a cage or basket used similarly in other sports (其他运动中类似球门的)笼(或篮)
the object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result (人进取或努力的)目标;目的;期望的结果 playing for Scotland has become the most important goal in his life. 为苏格兰踢球已成为他一生最重要的目标。 ■the destination of a journey (旅行的)目的地 the aircraft bumped towards our goal some 400 miles to the west. 飞机向西400英里处我们的目的地颠簸飞行。 ■(poetic/literary)a point marking the end of a race (诗/文)(赛跑的)终点
常用词组 in goal
in the position of goalkeeper 处于守门员的位置
派生 goalless adjective 语源
Middle English (in the sense 'limit, boundary'): of unknown origin