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- Golf the number of strokes a first-class player should normally require for a particular hole or course【高尔夫】（一洞或全部洞的）标准杆数, 规定击球次数：
Woosnam had advanced from his overnight position of three under par
伍斯南姆以头天晚上低于标准杆3杆的成绩继续比赛
the sixteenth is a par five.
第16穴的规定击球次数为5杆。
1.1
- a score of this number of strokes at a hole一洞的标准杆数成绩：
a card that showed 16 pars, one eagle, and one birdie.
记录16次标准杆, 1次老鹰球, 1次小鸟球的成绩卡。
2
- Stock Exchange the face value of a share or other security, as distinct from its market value【股票】平价; 票面价值。
2.1
- （亦作par of exchange）the recognized value of one country's currency in terms of another's外汇比值。
parred, parring
with obj. Golf play (a hole) in par【高尔夫】按规定杆数击球入（某洞）。
短语
above （或below,under） par
- better (or worse) than is usual or expected在一般水平以上（或以下）：
poor nutrition can leave you feeling below par.
营养不良能使你感到健康状态不佳。
on a par with
- equal in importance or quality to; on an equal level with与…平分秋色：
this home cooking is on a par with the best in the world.
这种自家的烹调和世界上最好的一样。
par for the course
- what is normal or expected in any given circumstances正常的（事）; 意料之中的（事）：
given the high standards of the food, the prices seem par for the course.
鉴于食物的高质量, 这样的价格也是意料之中的事。
up to par
- at an expected or usual level or quality达到期望的水平（或质量）的。
词源
late 16th cent. （in the sense 'equality of value or standing'）： from Latin, 'equal', also 'equality'. The golf term dates from the late 19th cent.