big league

英 [ˈbɪɡ liːɡ]

美 [ˈbɪɡ liːɡ]

n.  大联盟(棒球等职业运动的一流水平运动队组织); 一流水平的团体; 星级团体; 佼佼者

牛津词典

noun

• 大联盟（棒球等职业运动的一流水平运动队组织）
  a group of teams in a professional sport, especially baseball , that play at the highest level
• 一流水平的团体；星级团体；佼佼者
  a very successful and important group
  1. Over the past year, the company has joined the big league.
     去年一年中，公司已跻身一流之列。

英英释义

noun

• the most important league in any sport (especially baseball)
  Synonym:major leaguemajors

双语例句

• I'm working on getting stronger so I can compete with the other big men in the league like Shaq and Dwight Howard, and as a team we are just working on getting better.
  我正在变得更加强壮，可以跟像大鲨鱼和霍华德这样的大块头较量，火箭队的实力也正随着大家的努力水涨船高。
• He is still very young but he already has a lot of experience-he's played in the World Cup and the European Championship, as well as lots of big games in the Premiership and the Champions League.
  他还很年轻，但是已经身价不菲。他能在世界杯、欧冠以及超级联赛的舞台上发光。
• Paolo Maldini spoke in a press conference held on the eve of the big Bayern-Munich Champions League quarter-final.
  在欧冠四分之一决赛对阵拜仁的前一天，保罗马尔蒂尼在记者会上发言。
• European universal banks such as UBS, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, constrained by the lack of opportunities in their overbanked home markets, have also muscled into the American big league.
  风行欧洲的银行如瑞士联合银行，瑞士信贷银行以及德意志银行，因在倾斜过度的国内市场缺少机会而被迫挺进美国大联盟。
• Unfortunately, with globalisation we are playing in the big league and our costs are not competitive.
  不幸的是，随着全球化的到来，我们加入了这个联盟，而我们的成本没有竞争力。
• The office will allow NASDAQ to publicise US capital markets to Chinese companies wishing to enter the "big league", according to Michael Oxley, the vice-chairman and a former US lawmaker.
  纳斯达克副董事长、前美国国会议员迈克尔奥克斯利（michaeloxley）称，通过北京代表处，纳斯达克可以向那些希望进入这个“大联盟”的中国企业宣传美国的资本市场。
• So it will be difficult for the Super League to become, and like another big key league in Europe.
  超级联赛很难变成欧洲的大联赛。
• But never before in big league history? That's pretty surprising.
  但是大联盟的历史上这从未发生过吗？这真是令人惊讶。
• It's a different style of play in the big league.
  意思是那在大联盟中是一种不同的打法。
• Stewart Park: I don't think there is a big gap between top three of European League. I didn't see anything come with the Champion League, just a cup of competition.
  斯图尔特·帕克：我不认为欧洲前三大联赛间有什么差距，我从欧冠赛场什么也看不出来，不过是对奖杯的争夺。