Old English *b?cce "something baked," from bacan "bake" (see bake (v.)). Batch is to bake as watch (n.) is to wake and match (n.2) "one of a pair" is to make. Extended 1713 to "any quantity produced at one operation."
例文
1. We 're still waiting for the first batch to arrive.
私たちはまだ最初のロットの到着を待っています。
2.He has written a batch of very samey tunes.
非常に単調で退屈な曲を書いた。
3.The spy returned to deliver a second batch of classified documents.
そのスパイは、第2陣の機密文書を送り返すために戻ってきた。/
4.The second batch of bread came out underdone.
第2炉のパンはあまり焼けていない。
5.Each summer a new batch of students tries to find work.