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

• On Saturday, Hideki Irabu turned out for the Columbus Clippers in an international league game against Toledo, But the Big stage, the Major League is beckoning.
  星期六，野间秀夫参加了哥伦布快船队迎战托莱多队的国际比赛，但是全美棒球联赛的大舞台正向他招手。
• One of our targets this season is to do better against the big boys of the Premier League.
  我们本赛季的一个目标是在小联赛里有更好的表现。
• To many, the fancy footwork had a clear message: Russia was back in the diplomatic big league at last.
  对于很多人来说，这个花哨的动作释放了一个明显的信号：俄罗斯终于回归了外交大国地位。
• In those days and for years to come, all I had to sustain me was a weekly diet of Star Soccer, and later Big League Soccer on TV in which Arsenal were not featured very frequently.
  在那些日子里，随着时光流逝，唯一支撑我的就是每周一次的StarSoccer这道足球大餐，和随后在电视中播出的BigLeagueSoccer，当时阿森纳的比赛播出得并不太频繁。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Thanks to my mom's sacrifices and big dreams, I'd made it to the Ivy League: Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
  全是由于妈妈的牺牲和伟大的梦想，我进入了常春藤联盟的罗得岛州普罗维登斯市的布朗大学。
• 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。