anchor压阵队员，(一队或比赛中)充当压阵的运动员

【使用地区】：美国

【释义】：

The strongest member of a track team，the runner who runs the last leg of a relay race，has been called the anchorman since the late nineteenth century，the term possibly having its roots in the anchor man at the end of a tug—of—war rope．By the 1930s anchorman was being used for the strongest member of an American radio broadcasting team．With the rise of women in sports and television news broadcasting，the term is increasingly heard as anchor，not anchorman．

在接力比赛中，跑最后一棒的运动员。此词起于19世纪末叶，称之为anchorman，也许源自对拔河比赛中位于绳索末端的人的称呼。20世纪30年代后，美国无线电台的最佳主持人也称anchorman。随着体育运动中和电视新闻中女性的增多，人们越来越多地用anchor一词，后面不再加上man。