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nounPlural leagues liːɡliɡ 1A collection of people, countries, or groups that combine for mutual protection or cooperation. 联盟 国际联盟。 Example sentencesExamples - To this day Sweden, with the other Scandinavian countries, tops the league of percentage state spending on overseas aid.
- The league says this failure means up to 3,000 teenagers are locked up in inhumane, appalling conditions.
- In the 1930s the French fascist leagues marched to the same spot.
- The league is a small extremist group.
- The league has also been giving hands-on business advice and brokering to many organisations assisting with small business.
- Karl Marx might approve of the league's socialist ethic: from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.
- The league has taken the government to court over the fact that children were not being protected from bullying, assault and self-harm.
- Britain is supposed to be high in the league of energy-saving policy-making.
- He was a founder member of the Warburton Youth League and was the league's president up until his death.
- Topics included Confederate nationalism, Civil War union leagues, and religion in the Civil War, respectively.
- The league has already blown its £2,500 budget for emergency clothing on basics like underwear and pyjamas.
- When the Constitution was submitted to referendum, short-lived federation leagues were formed in many centres to campaign for a ‘yes’ vote.
- This led to a split, and the expulsion of the socialist students league, despite the temerity of this organisation.
- The borough currently tops the country's league for the collection of paper, cans and plastic bottles.
- He was so pleased with his efforts that he described the league as ‘all our work’.
- The executive disaffiliated the league, which dissolved itself at its Whitsun conference.
- Chambers of commerce and boards of trade are organizations of the same general type as business leagues.
- Finally, the league inaugurated the idea of collective economic sanctions.
- What behaviours are open to or legitimate for nations / leagues of nations that wish to change the potentially dangerous conduct of their neighbors?
- In the Po Valley, with its large capitalist farms, socialist leagues finally managed in early 1920 to win a monopoly control of the hiring of labour.
Synonyms alliance, confederation, confederacy, federation, union, association, coalition, combine, consortium, affiliation, guild, corporation, conglomerate, cooperative, partnership, fellowship, syndicate, compact, band, group, circle, ring bloc, faction, axis, congress, entente brotherhood, society, fraternity, coterie, lodge rare consociation, sodality - 1.1archaic An agreement or alliance.
Example sentencesExamples - This is about the integrity of a league and an agreement: A deal is a deal.
2A group of sports clubs which play each other over a period for a championship. 体育俱乐部联合会 the leading goalscorer in the league as modifier the league championship Example sentencesExamples - The cloud is kicked up from so many teams scrambling for the league championship.
- They also both manage teams in the same online fantasy basketball league.
- The Grizzlies started a big youth league in British Columbia when they were there.
- The Championship is one of the most competitive leagues in the world with every club capable of beating each other.
- Through June 27, he was hitting.342 and leading the major leagues in runs batted in with 76.
- Jacob is among the league's top scorers with 9 goals from 12 matches.
- We want both; we don't want a more competitive league at a lower quality level.
- He is the league's top scorer and also a fan favorite.
- Players in the Premiership are playing in that league for a reason and that goes for players in Divisions One, Two and Three.
- He has to be on the short list of league MVP candidates so far.
- How do I win my fantasy football league?
- The chances of making it into the premier league are probably better.
- BBC Scotland today announced details of upcoming live Premier league fixtures.
- It made sense, of course, since the hockey league he played for was beginning their Christmas break.
- Do kids even go outside in the summer anymore except to play in soccer leagues their parents make them join?
- There's a full programme of football scheduled, with cup and league matches.
- The minors will be starting their summer County league on Friday, July 9.
- Minor football leagues commence April 6 and the minor football championship starts on July 15.
- In this novel a 56-year-old bachelor plays out a baseball league he has invented using a variety of numerical charts and the roll of three dice.
- When will we again see a winning streak like Arsenal managed in the English premier football league?
Synonyms championship, competition, contest group, band, association - 2.1 The contest for the championship of a league.
（体育）联赛联盟冠军赛，联合会冠军赛，联盟杯赛 the year we won the league 我们赢得联赛冠军的那一年。 Example sentencesExamples - When you lose six matches at home you don't deserve to win the league.
- Here's to raising the bar for every football team that contests the league in this country any time in the future.
- Winning the league four consecutive times is a great achievement.
- Fair enough, they've had a couple of good results, but winning the Champions league?
- His performance in the league, which he won without dropping a frame, led to his being re-seeded number one.
- At this moment it is easier to win the league than the Champions League or even the FA Cup.
- The final of the league was hotly contested.
- They aren't suddenly going to win the league but at long last there seems to be a proper plan in place that might one day allow them to do so.
- We have got the home games in the bag to come but in our eyes we want to win the next four games and win the league.
- At West Ham we came within a couple of games of winning the league in 1986.
- Chelsea has won the English league for the first time in 50 years, and many in England have been grumbling about the achievement.
- Twice they won the league and twice lost in the play-offs that guaranteed promotion.
- Run over three nights, the league was keenly contested with the outcome in doubt to the very end.
- They have the opportunity to show they are the real deal, that with some quality additions they can make progress and make it an even closer contest for the league next year.
- They have experience and know how to win and lose leagues so they will be capable of winning the league.
- For a while, all I thought about as a Manchester United supporter was when we'd end the drought and win the league.
- People these days won't appreciate it but for many years after that United were the underdogs, until we finally won the league in 1993.
- The kids won their leagues as 7th and 8th graders, thanks to their talent and camaraderie.
- We won the league, FA Cup, Charity Shield and European Cup-Winners' Cup.
- We had won the league with five games to go and people were talking about a crisis.
- 2.2
short for rugby league Example sentencesExamples - Fourteen men a side is not rugby union, nor league, and certainly not cricket, and the sooner they learn that the better for the dignity of the game and future tourists.
- Which nation is the only one which can consistently stand up to New Zealand at rugby union and league?
- There are several sports which involve spinal risk, including horse riding and football, especially rugby union and league.
- Robinson's success has sparked a rash of worthy articles in the Australian press, all dealing with the supposed impact of league upon British rugby union.
3A class or category of quality or excellence. 品级；优秀品质的等次；能力（或才学等的）水平；档次 the two men were not in the same league 他们俩不是同一档次的人。 Austin's in a league of his own 奥斯汀卓而不群，无人能及。 Example sentencesExamples - We were totally out of our league, however, in the fine wines category and after the questions on Chinese dynasties we were in last place.
- The story isn't quite in that league but the execution is impeccable.
- When Chris carried his display into the regional fair in Fort Worth last month, he knew immediately that he was out of his league.
- So, have you ever had a crush on someone a little out of your league?
- A quid box of fireworks was way out of our league.
- I was recently hired at a company that seems to be way out of my league.
- When it comes to pulling political strokes, they are a class act, in a league of their own.
- In a league of her own, the savvy businesswoman is a self-made franchise.
- He's utterly out of my league, so that makes it easier to say that.
- As rousing, stirring words go, community is not in the same league as ‘freedom’ or ‘liberty’.
- So, if funding both in the UK and abroad seems out of your league, a quick blast with this book could change your outlook and prospects for the future.
- Cynicism aside, she's way out of his league.
- She's out of her league, according to the class consciousness of the time.
- In the ‘after’ photo they are all smiley and bright-eyed, their life changed forever; no one is out of their league now.
- It appears to be in a different league from other buildings which have been converted into cavernous licensed premises.
- And what exactly gave you the impression that great guy is so totally out of your league?
- As a songwriter, he is in a league of his own and is surely among the best writers this country has produced over the last three decades.
- ‘It's extremely crude and not in the same league as the original,’ the designer sniffed.
- I loved the latter dearly, but everybody just knew - the two teams were not in the same league.
- However, it is not in the same league as countries such as Canada.
Synonyms class, group, category, ability group, level of ability, level
verbleagues, leaguing, leagued liːɡliɡ [no object]Join in a league or alliance. 参加联盟，加入联盟 Oscar had leagued with other construction firms 奥斯卡已经和其他建筑公司结盟。 Example sentencesExamples - His policies of appeasement leagued him frequently with the prudent Phocion.
- And since then it has been leagued with various investigations into the historical Jesus.
- The marquess of Montrose, initially a Covenanter, leagued with the Irish to invade in the north-west and with Alasdair MacColla turned a feud between the Scots-Irish MacDonalds and Argyll's Campbells into a powerful threat.
Synonyms ally, join forces, join together, unite, form an association, band together, affiliate, combine, amalgamate, form a federation, confederate, collaborate, team up, join up
PhrasesConspiring with another or others. 与…勾结，与…同谋 he is in league with the devil 他与魔鬼勾结。 Example sentencesExamples - We know that all the forces that oppose us are in league with each other.
- However, when he was away from home, she hastened to accuse him of being in league with the devil.
- In some countries, terrorist groups were in league with national governments.
- A teenage dad who stole tens of thousands of pounds worth of quad bikes while in league with travellers has walked free from court.
- If you think this puts me in league with the demons, why, you know what to do.
- Moreover, in Jacobean drama calculation and cynicism are typically coded as daemonic and intrigue is in league with Evil.
- Intriguingly for those who recognize him, the part has him in league with his uncles in the White House.
- There's no doubt he can still sing, but now we know he isn't actually in league with the Devil, that's not enough anymore.
- In more refined versions, the American government is in league with the aliens and is assisting them in their abduction programme.
- The death metallers, of course, come across not so much as being in league with Odin, as they'd like to think, as being a group of bullies.
Synonyms collaborating with, cooperating with, in cooperation with, in alliance with, allied with, conspiring with, leagued with, linked with, hand in glove with, in collusion with
OriginLate Middle English (denoting a compact for mutual protection or advantage): via French from Italian lega, from legare 'to bind', from Latin ligare. ally from Middle English: Latin alligere ‘combine together’, formed from ad- ‘to(gether)’ and ligare ‘bind’ developed into two closely related words in Old French: alier which became ally in English, and aloyer which became alloy (late 16th century). Ligare is also hidden in furl (late 16th century) which comes from French ferler, from ferm ‘firm’ and lier ‘bind’; league (Late Middle English) a binding together; and oblige (Middle English) originally meaning ‘bind by oath’.
Rhymesfatigue, Grieg, intrigue, renege nounPlural leagues liːɡliɡ A former measure of distance by land, usually about three miles. 里格（原陆路长度单位，1里格一般约等于3英里） Example sentencesExamples - Methinks we have two leagues to go, so let us put some miles between us and here ere we sleep.
- I receive a letter, which, upon opening it, I perceive by the handwriting and subscription to have come from a friend, who says he is two hundred leagues distant.
- A league was three standard miles, so fifty leagues was one hundred fifty miles.
- By any basic living-standard or quality-of-life measurement, it is leagues ahead of most developing nations.
- If she could not do anything to help here, what could she possibly do from a vantage point thousands of leagues distant?
- There may very well not have been any such series; for example, it is not very likely that Hume had ever actually witnessed the continuous movement of a letter over a distance of two hundred leagues.
- She was not permitted to travel more than two leagues (five miles) from Coppet and began to receive word that orders for her arrest were pending.
- He then flung it across the gap; it briefly illuminated the other side, a full twenty leagues away.
- The result is an economy leagues ahead in the production and utilization of information technology.
- Between the outer wall and the city are four leagues of land filled with farms, orchards and houses.
- In 1803 Napoleon exiled her to twenty leagues, roughly fifty miles, from Paris.
- The tunnel measured ten leagues east to west, and it covered that distance in an arrow-straight line.
- We eased our way through the crowd and into the park which after only a few paces seemed many leagues distant from the City surrounding it.
- It was set on a rise amidst an almost flat plain of land that seemed to stretch for leagues to the north.
- That's twenty-four leagues North-east to here.
OriginLate Middle English: from late Latin leuga, leuca, late Greek leugē, or from Provençal lega (modern French lieue). nounlēɡliɡ 1A collection of people, countries, or groups that combine for a particular purpose, typically mutual protection or cooperation. 联盟 国际联盟。 Example sentencesExamples - What behaviours are open to or legitimate for nations / leagues of nations that wish to change the potentially dangerous conduct of their neighbors?
- In the Po Valley, with its large capitalist farms, socialist leagues finally managed in early 1920 to win a monopoly control of the hiring of labour.
- He was so pleased with his efforts that he described the league as ‘all our work’.
- He was a founder member of the Warburton Youth League and was the league's president up until his death.
- The executive disaffiliated the league, which dissolved itself at its Whitsun conference.
- The league has taken the government to court over the fact that children were not being protected from bullying, assault and self-harm.
- Karl Marx might approve of the league's socialist ethic: from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.
- The league has also been giving hands-on business advice and brokering to many organisations assisting with small business.
- The league says this failure means up to 3,000 teenagers are locked up in inhumane, appalling conditions.
- Chambers of commerce and boards of trade are organizations of the same general type as business leagues.
- The league is a small extremist group.
- When the Constitution was submitted to referendum, short-lived federation leagues were formed in many centres to campaign for a ‘yes’ vote.
- To this day Sweden, with the other Scandinavian countries, tops the league of percentage state spending on overseas aid.
- Topics included Confederate nationalism, Civil War union leagues, and religion in the Civil War, respectively.
- The league has already blown its £2,500 budget for emergency clothing on basics like underwear and pyjamas.
- The borough currently tops the country's league for the collection of paper, cans and plastic bottles.
- Britain is supposed to be high in the league of energy-saving policy-making.
- Finally, the league inaugurated the idea of collective economic sanctions.
- In the 1930s the French fascist leagues marched to the same spot.
- This led to a split, and the expulsion of the socialist students league, despite the temerity of this organisation.
Synonyms alliance, confederation, confederacy, federation, union, association, coalition, combine, consortium, affiliation, guild, corporation, conglomerate, cooperative, partnership, fellowship, syndicate, compact, band, group, circle, ring - 1.1archaic An agreement to combine for a particular purpose.
盟约，联盟条约 Example sentencesExamples - This is about the integrity of a league and an agreement: A deal is a deal.
2A group of sports clubs which play each other over a period for a championship. 体育俱乐部联合会 Example sentencesExamples - The minors will be starting their summer County league on Friday, July 9.
- Through June 27, he was hitting.342 and leading the major leagues in runs batted in with 76.
- He is the league's top scorer and also a fan favorite.
- BBC Scotland today announced details of upcoming live Premier league fixtures.
- They also both manage teams in the same online fantasy basketball league.
- Jacob is among the league's top scorers with 9 goals from 12 matches.
- The chances of making it into the premier league are probably better.
- How do I win my fantasy football league?
- It made sense, of course, since the hockey league he played for was beginning their Christmas break.
- In this novel a 56-year-old bachelor plays out a baseball league he has invented using a variety of numerical charts and the roll of three dice.
- We want both; we don't want a more competitive league at a lower quality level.
- He has to be on the short list of league MVP candidates so far.
- Players in the Premiership are playing in that league for a reason and that goes for players in Divisions One, Two and Three.
- When will we again see a winning streak like Arsenal managed in the English premier football league?
- Minor football leagues commence April 6 and the minor football championship starts on July 15.
- The Grizzlies started a big youth league in British Columbia when they were there.
- Do kids even go outside in the summer anymore except to play in soccer leagues their parents make them join?
- The Championship is one of the most competitive leagues in the world with every club capable of beating each other.
- The cloud is kicked up from so many teams scrambling for the league championship.
- There's a full programme of football scheduled, with cup and league matches.
Synonyms championship, competition, contest - 2.1 The contest for the championship of a league.
（体育）联赛联盟冠军赛，联合会冠军赛，联盟杯赛 the year we won the league 我们赢得联赛冠军的那一年。 Example sentencesExamples - His performance in the league, which he won without dropping a frame, led to his being re-seeded number one.
- They aren't suddenly going to win the league but at long last there seems to be a proper plan in place that might one day allow them to do so.
- At this moment it is easier to win the league than the Champions League or even the FA Cup.
- For a while, all I thought about as a Manchester United supporter was when we'd end the drought and win the league.
- The final of the league was hotly contested.
- We had won the league with five games to go and people were talking about a crisis.
- They have the opportunity to show they are the real deal, that with some quality additions they can make progress and make it an even closer contest for the league next year.
- At West Ham we came within a couple of games of winning the league in 1986.
- We won the league, FA Cup, Charity Shield and European Cup-Winners' Cup.
- Fair enough, they've had a couple of good results, but winning the Champions league?
- Run over three nights, the league was keenly contested with the outcome in doubt to the very end.
- They have experience and know how to win and lose leagues so they will be capable of winning the league.
- Here's to raising the bar for every football team that contests the league in this country any time in the future.
- Twice they won the league and twice lost in the play-offs that guaranteed promotion.
- People these days won't appreciate it but for many years after that United were the underdogs, until we finally won the league in 1993.
- We have got the home games in the bag to come but in our eyes we want to win the next four games and win the league.
- Chelsea has won the English league for the first time in 50 years, and many in England have been grumbling about the achievement.
- The kids won their leagues as 7th and 8th graders, thanks to their talent and camaraderie.
- Winning the league four consecutive times is a great achievement.
- When you lose six matches at home you don't deserve to win the league.
3A class or category of quality or excellence. 品级；优秀品质的等次；能力（或才学等的）水平；档次 the two men were not in the same league 他们俩不是同一档次的人。 Jack's in a league of his own 奥斯汀卓而不群，无人能及。 Example sentencesExamples - A quid box of fireworks was way out of our league.
- It appears to be in a different league from other buildings which have been converted into cavernous licensed premises.
- ‘It's extremely crude and not in the same league as the original,’ the designer sniffed.
- He's utterly out of my league, so that makes it easier to say that.
- As a songwriter, he is in a league of his own and is surely among the best writers this country has produced over the last three decades.
- The story isn't quite in that league but the execution is impeccable.
- When it comes to pulling political strokes, they are a class act, in a league of their own.
- And what exactly gave you the impression that great guy is so totally out of your league?
- So, have you ever had a crush on someone a little out of your league?
- So, if funding both in the UK and abroad seems out of your league, a quick blast with this book could change your outlook and prospects for the future.
- I loved the latter dearly, but everybody just knew - the two teams were not in the same league.
- We were totally out of our league, however, in the fine wines category and after the questions on Chinese dynasties we were in last place.
- In the ‘after’ photo they are all smiley and bright-eyed, their life changed forever; no one is out of their league now.
- She's out of her league, according to the class consciousness of the time.
- Cynicism aside, she's way out of his league.
- In a league of her own, the savvy businesswoman is a self-made franchise.
- However, it is not in the same league as countries such as Canada.
- As rousing, stirring words go, community is not in the same league as ‘freedom’ or ‘liberty’.
- When Chris carried his display into the regional fair in Fort Worth last month, he knew immediately that he was out of his league.
- I was recently hired at a company that seems to be way out of my league.
Synonyms class, group, category, ability group, level of ability, level
verblēɡliɡ [no object]Join in a league or alliance. 参加联盟，加入联盟 Oscar had leagued with other construction firms 奥斯卡已经和其他建筑公司结盟。 Example sentencesExamples - His policies of appeasement leagued him frequently with the prudent Phocion.
- The marquess of Montrose, initially a Covenanter, leagued with the Irish to invade in the north-west and with Alasdair MacColla turned a feud between the Scots-Irish MacDonalds and Argyll's Campbells into a powerful threat.
- And since then it has been leagued with various investigations into the historical Jesus.
Synonyms ally, join forces, join together, unite, form an association, band together, affiliate, combine, amalgamate, form a federation, confederate, collaborate, team up, join up
PhrasesConspiring with another or others. 与…勾结，与…同谋 he is in league with the devil 他与魔鬼勾结。 Example sentencesExamples - However, when he was away from home, she hastened to accuse him of being in league with the devil.
- The death metallers, of course, come across not so much as being in league with Odin, as they'd like to think, as being a group of bullies.
- If you think this puts me in league with the demons, why, you know what to do.
- In more refined versions, the American government is in league with the aliens and is assisting them in their abduction programme.
- Moreover, in Jacobean drama calculation and cynicism are typically coded as daemonic and intrigue is in league with Evil.
- Intriguingly for those who recognize him, the part has him in league with his uncles in the White House.
- A teenage dad who stole tens of thousands of pounds worth of quad bikes while in league with travellers has walked free from court.
- There's no doubt he can still sing, but now we know he isn't actually in league with the Devil, that's not enough anymore.
- In some countries, terrorist groups were in league with national governments.
- We know that all the forces that oppose us are in league with each other.
Synonyms collaborating with, cooperating with, in cooperation with, in alliance with, allied with, conspiring with, leagued with, linked with, hand in glove with, in collusion with
OriginLate Middle English (denoting a compact for mutual protection or advantage): via French from Italian lega, from legare ‘to bind’, from Latin ligare. nounlēɡliɡ A former measure of distance by land, usually about three miles. 里格（原陆路长度单位，1里格一般约等于3英里） Example sentencesExamples - By any basic living-standard or quality-of-life measurement, it is leagues ahead of most developing nations.
- If she could not do anything to help here, what could she possibly do from a vantage point thousands of leagues distant?
- He then flung it across the gap; it briefly illuminated the other side, a full twenty leagues away.
- In 1803 Napoleon exiled her to twenty leagues, roughly fifty miles, from Paris.
- Between the outer wall and the city are four leagues of land filled with farms, orchards and houses.
- There may very well not have been any such series; for example, it is not very likely that Hume had ever actually witnessed the continuous movement of a letter over a distance of two hundred leagues.
- It was set on a rise amidst an almost flat plain of land that seemed to stretch for leagues to the north.
- She was not permitted to travel more than two leagues (five miles) from Coppet and began to receive word that orders for her arrest were pending.
- Methinks we have two leagues to go, so let us put some miles between us and here ere we sleep.
- A league was three standard miles, so fifty leagues was one hundred fifty miles.
- I receive a letter, which, upon opening it, I perceive by the handwriting and subscription to have come from a friend, who says he is two hundred leagues distant.
- The tunnel measured ten leagues east to west, and it covered that distance in an arrow-straight line.
- We eased our way through the crowd and into the park which after only a few paces seemed many leagues distant from the City surrounding it.
- That's twenty-four leagues North-east to here.
- The result is an economy leagues ahead in the production and utilization of information technology.
OriginLate Middle English: from late Latin leuga, leuca, late Greek leugē, or from Provençal lega ( modern French lieue). |