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

• The blues took a big step towards reaching the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions league, as Didier drogba's well-taken equaliser in injury time denied Barca an important win.
  在这场平局后蓝军朝着晋级冠军联赛淘汰赛又跨了一大步，迪迪安。德罗巴补时的进球拒绝了巴萨的胜利。
• Everything I do now has the potential to be very important, to play a big role in helping us to hopefully win the league.
  我现在的表现还可以更好，能做更多贡献帮助球队赢得冠军。
• Showbiz is not an industry whose practitioners can freely express themselves, at least not those in the big league.
  娱乐圈不是个能够自由说话的地方，至少对那些有头有脸的名人来说不是。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In both cases, big deal-related financings promise fee bonanzas that boost the advising banks 'league table positions.
  在两种情况下，与大手笔交易相关的融资都有望带来丰厚的佣金收入，提高顾问银行在收入排行榜上的排名。
• 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。
• 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。