| 释义 |
Definition of bush league in English: bush leaguenoun North American A minor league of a professional sport, especially baseball. as modifier their bush league image Example sentencesExamples - So I went beating around the bush leagues with a couple of NBA scouts whose jobs are, admittedly, depressing - they have to scout the high school ranks.
- What's the good of looking over a bush league outfit?
- The peeling pastel-colored grandstand holds some 3,000 people, but the plant is less imposing than even a bush league track in the United States.
- But in the 1930s and 1940s, it meant a ticket to the bush leagues.
- I once played in a bush league in South Trinidad where good batsmen had to ensure that they were never hit on the pads.
adjective North American informal Of mediocre quality; second-rate. Example sentencesExamples - Let's be honest: the officiating in that game was bush; bush league.
- We aren't a bush league company like many have claimed, we are big league.
- One, who asked for anonymity, called it ‘brazenly absurd,’ and added that it was ‘a typical bush-league move.’
- Well, these are bush league catastrophe worries.
- It costs nothing to read this public display of stupidity that gives our country a bush league image.
Synonyms run-of-the-mill, ordinary, middle-of-the-road, average, common, commonplace, everyday, workaday, quotidian, pedestrian, suburban, mundane, mediocre, humdrum, prosaic, lacklustre, unexceptional, indifferent, forgettable, unmemorable, uninspired, unimpressive, unexciting, unspectacular, uneventful, unremarkable, inconsequential, unnoticeable, inconspicuous, characterless, featureless, nondescript, plain, simple, fair, not bad, passable, all right, middling, moderate
Derivatives nounˈbʊʃˌliːɡə North American But these shake-down artists are bush-leaguers compared to the all-time King of the Shake-Down. Example sentencesExamples - This has allowed the Colorado Rockies’ decent sluggers to become titans, while reducing dominant pitchers to bush-leaguers.
- Bakula's success at turning around the hapless squad of bush-leaguers and has-beens earns them a game against the big-league club and its arrogant skipper.
Definition of bush league in US English: bush leaguenounˈbo͝oSH ˈˌlēɡ North American A minor league of a professional sport, especially baseball. as modifier their bush league image Example sentencesExamples - But in the 1930s and 1940s, it meant a ticket to the bush leagues.
- So I went beating around the bush leagues with a couple of NBA scouts whose jobs are, admittedly, depressing - they have to scout the high school ranks.
- I once played in a bush league in South Trinidad where good batsmen had to ensure that they were never hit on the pads.
- What's the good of looking over a bush league outfit?
- The peeling pastel-colored grandstand holds some 3,000 people, but the plant is less imposing than even a bush league track in the United States.
adjectiveˈbo͝oSH ˈˌlēɡ North American informal Not of the highest quality or sophistication; second-rate. Example sentencesExamples - It costs nothing to read this public display of stupidity that gives our country a bush league image.
- Well, these are bush league catastrophe worries.
- One, who asked for anonymity, called it ‘brazenly absurd,’ and added that it was ‘a typical bush-league move.’
- Let's be honest: the officiating in that game was bush; bush league.
- We aren't a bush league company like many have claimed, we are big league.
Synonyms run-of-the-mill, ordinary, middle-of-the-road, average, common, commonplace, everyday, workaday, quotidian, pedestrian, suburban, mundane, mediocre, humdrum, prosaic, lacklustre, unexceptional, indifferent, forgettable, unmemorable, uninspired, unimpressive, unexciting, unspectacular, uneventful, unremarkable, inconsequential, unnoticeable, inconspicuous, characterless, featureless, nondescript, plain, simple, fair, not bad, passable, all right, middling, moderate
|