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单词 big league
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Definition of big league in English:

big league

noun
  • 1A group of teams in a professional sport, especially baseball, competing for a championship at the highest level.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Playing with this team and being in the big leagues has been a lot of fun.
    • I've had some very special moments, but I'd probably say it was my first day in the big leagues.
    • Andres Galarraga was on target to club 20 homers for his fourth big league team in 2001.
    • Even when he was in college, Bret thought he was better than second basemen in the big leagues.
    • We have a lot of young kids who haven't spent much time in professional baseball, least of all the big leagues.
    • Mazeroski and Clemente played for the Pirates for 17 years together, and neither of them ever appeared in a big league game for another team.
    • Called up to the big leagues at the age of 19 in 1998, he was a nagging disappointment.
    • Probably the last three or four years playing in the big leagues, doing what you love and being paid to do it.
    • This marks the first time Percival has changed teams in the big leagues.
    • He hit 66 home runs for Lincoln in the Western League in 1956 on his way to the big leagues.
    • His professional career lasted nine years, but only five in the big leagues.
    • Jack McKeon of the Marlins is another current major league manager who never played in the big leagues.
    • Radatz never started a game in the big leagues but, man, was he a Monster in relief.
    • I actually had a cousin who was a big league baseball player.
    • He killed me in the minor leagues and he's killed me in the big leagues.
    • You see a lot of guys going from shortstop to second base in the big leagues, but you never really see the opposite.
    • Twenty men have won 300 games in the big leagues and every single one of them is in the Hall of Fame.
    • I made an error in the outfield, but also made my first hit in the big leagues.
    • I was married with a couple of kids at the time, but I vowed to give it everything I had to make it to the big leagues.
    • Glaus was in the big leagues by the end of his first full pro season.
    1. 1.1the big league A very successful or important group.
      the film brought him into the movie world's big league
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We've met in Baton Rouge, 73 miles from New Orleans, where Morrissey is shooting The Reaping, a film that marks his ascent to the big league - big money, big noise, big fame
      • And yet, though he lacks the distinctive signature that might put him in the big league, he is an irresistible romancer.
      • Step up to the big league in web marketing.
      • My chance to really hit the big league and gain mainstream popularity.
      • For Sameer Dharmadhikari this movie could be the ticket to big league.
      • Even signing on to Tomb Raider doesn't seem to have been part of any grand plan to catapult himself into the big league.
      • At the same time, both the Scottish Executive and the economic culture of this country should encourage small Scottish firms to grow into the big league.
      • Aspirants to the big league may note that attractive golf gear costs at least Rs 15,000.
      • Any country that possesses the bomb is automatically admitted to the big league.
      • The two big commercial successes of 2004 never figured in the big league of winners.
      • Two successive hits and they have made it to the big league of scriptwriters in the Malayalam film industry.
      • When we come back, Tim Russert on his new book, the influence of his father and his transition from politics to big league journalism.
      Synonyms
      illustrious, distinguished, renowned, esteemed, pre-eminent, notable, noteworthy, great, prestigious, important, significant, influential, outstanding, noted, of note
adjective
  • 1Of or relating to the highest-ranking league in a professional sport, especially baseball.

    big-league teams
    1. 1.1 Very successful or important.
      the big-league rapper was too cool to care

Derivatives

  • big leaguer

  • noun
    • On Monday, the Hall of Fame and the Major League Baseball Alumni Association sponsored a ‘Skills for Youth’ clinic that featured a few Hall of Famers and several retired big leaguers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • All publicity was good publicity, even the negative stuff, according to our label; however much I may have contested the theory, I couldn't argue with the big leaguers within the label.
      • I thought before that all the big leaguers were here in Washington.
      • Former bush leaguer (when he was with Suicidal Tendencies) Rob Trujilo quits his current gig with big leaguer Ozzy and switches teams when he joins heavy hitters Metallica.
      • The Pacific islands - excluding Hawaii, which of course is one of the 50 United States and has contributed several big leaguers including the current Benny Agbayani, also have chipped in with at least two players.
      • Yet, all he does is go about his business, showing all of us who think we are big leaguers what being a true big leaguer, as a man as well as a player, is all about.
      • Paul, son of former MLB pitcher Sheldon Burnside, knew of accomplished pitchers who had undergone arm reconstruction, but they were ailing big leaguers.
      • Instead, he began playing organized baseball at 13 and was invited to the Houston Astros' academy in Valencia, Venezuela, at 17, along with future big leaguers Bobby Abreu and Richard Hidalgo.
      • The Mets of 1962-when the team first took the field - were a collection of has-beens, never-will-bes, former Dodgers and former Giants, fringe big leaguers and discards.
      • I was soon hitting home runs like the big leaguers.
      • They talked hitting with big leaguers, and I had a chance to introduce them to Goose Gossage, Mel Stottlemyre, Jason Giambi, Larry Walker and Todd Helton.
      • ‘I got most of the names of Jewish big leaguers from the American Jewish Historical Society,’ he said.
      • Eric Davis and Darryl Strawberry had similar tools as Bonds, yet it could be argued that none of these three players lived up to the high expectations that were placed upon them when they became big leaguers.
      • When we combined the film, television, and music industries, and the people with behind-the-scenes power and influence, we were able to identify 50 big leaguers and up-and-comers who made the cut.
      • During the war, I played on the special service team with guys like Joe DiMaggio, Ferris Fain, Jerry Priddy and other big leaguers.
      • His teammates included Jose Cruz Jr, Mark Quinn and Matt Anderson, all big leaguers now.
      • Three sons of big leaguers have captured A.L. Rookie of the Year Awards, which is all the more astonishing because they come from a group that represents only a tiny fraction of all players.
      • Without question, the best results were turned in by Baldelli, Podsednik, Gerut, and Matsui, all four of whom proved themselves as big leaguers.
      • There have been scores, if not hundreds, of such fluke seasons turned in by generally unheralded, sometimes even marginal, big leaguers who briefly performed at an all-star level.
      • I occasionally hear big leaguers say before an important game that they just have to ‘get out there and have fun.’
 
 

Definition of big league in US English:

big league

nounbɪɡ liɡ
  • 1A group of teams in a professional sport, especially baseball, competing for a championship at the highest level.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He killed me in the minor leagues and he's killed me in the big leagues.
    • I actually had a cousin who was a big league baseball player.
    • Probably the last three or four years playing in the big leagues, doing what you love and being paid to do it.
    • His professional career lasted nine years, but only five in the big leagues.
    • This marks the first time Percival has changed teams in the big leagues.
    • Mazeroski and Clemente played for the Pirates for 17 years together, and neither of them ever appeared in a big league game for another team.
    • Radatz never started a game in the big leagues but, man, was he a Monster in relief.
    • Glaus was in the big leagues by the end of his first full pro season.
    • You see a lot of guys going from shortstop to second base in the big leagues, but you never really see the opposite.
    • Twenty men have won 300 games in the big leagues and every single one of them is in the Hall of Fame.
    • I was married with a couple of kids at the time, but I vowed to give it everything I had to make it to the big leagues.
    • We have a lot of young kids who haven't spent much time in professional baseball, least of all the big leagues.
    • He hit 66 home runs for Lincoln in the Western League in 1956 on his way to the big leagues.
    • Andres Galarraga was on target to club 20 homers for his fourth big league team in 2001.
    • Called up to the big leagues at the age of 19 in 1998, he was a nagging disappointment.
    • I've had some very special moments, but I'd probably say it was my first day in the big leagues.
    • Even when he was in college, Bret thought he was better than second basemen in the big leagues.
    • Playing with this team and being in the big leagues has been a lot of fun.
    • Jack McKeon of the Marlins is another current major league manager who never played in the big leagues.
    • I made an error in the outfield, but also made my first hit in the big leagues.
    1. 1.1the big league A very successful or important group.
      the film brought him into the movie world's big league
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At the same time, both the Scottish Executive and the economic culture of this country should encourage small Scottish firms to grow into the big league.
      • My chance to really hit the big league and gain mainstream popularity.
      • Even signing on to Tomb Raider doesn't seem to have been part of any grand plan to catapult himself into the big league.
      • For Sameer Dharmadhikari this movie could be the ticket to big league.
      • When we come back, Tim Russert on his new book, the influence of his father and his transition from politics to big league journalism.
      • The two big commercial successes of 2004 never figured in the big league of winners.
      • We've met in Baton Rouge, 73 miles from New Orleans, where Morrissey is shooting The Reaping, a film that marks his ascent to the big league - big money, big noise, big fame
      • Any country that possesses the bomb is automatically admitted to the big league.
      • Two successive hits and they have made it to the big league of scriptwriters in the Malayalam film industry.
      • Aspirants to the big league may note that attractive golf gear costs at least Rs 15,000.
      • And yet, though he lacks the distinctive signature that might put him in the big league, he is an irresistible romancer.
      • Step up to the big league in web marketing.
      Synonyms
      illustrious, distinguished, renowned, esteemed, pre-eminent, notable, noteworthy, great, prestigious, important, significant, influential, outstanding, noted, of note
adjectivebɪɡ liɡ
  • 1Of or relating to the highest-ranking league in a professional sport, especially baseball.

    big-league teams
    1. 1.1 Very successful or important.
      the big-league rapper was too cool to care
 
 
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