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Gift Ngoepe is a South Africa-born baseball player in the United States.

吉福特·恩戈埃佩是美国的一位南非裔棒球运动员。

Now he plays for Major League Baseball: Unfamiliar.

现在他在美国职业棒球大联盟中打比赛：不熟悉的。

In his first game of the baseball season, the Pittsburg Pirates' Gift Ngoepe did more than hit a ball.

在他棒球赛季的第一场比赛中，匹兹堡海盗队的吉福特·恩戈埃佩不仅仅只是击中了球。

In a sport unfamiliar to many South Africans, he made history.

在一个很多南非人不熟悉的运动项目中，他创造了历史。

Ngoepe is the first Major League baseball player born on the African continent.

恩戈埃佩是第一位出生在非洲大陆的大联盟棒球运动员。

If something is unfamiliar, you know little or nothing about it.

如果某个事物是不熟悉的，那么你对它了解得很少或者一无所知。

Unfamiliar is the opposite of familiar, which means usual or known.

不熟悉的与熟悉的一词相反，它的意思是平常的或者已知的。