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单词 bush league
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Definition of bush league in English:

bush league

noun
North American
  • A minor league of a professional sport, especially baseball.

    职业运动小联合会(尤指棒球)

    as modifier their bush league image

    他们那种小联合会形象。

    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

  • bush-leaguer

  • 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 league

nounˈbo͝oSH ˈˌlēɡ
North American
  • A minor league of a professional sport, especially baseball.

    职业运动小联合会(尤指棒球)

    as modifier their bush league image

    他们那种小联合会形象。

    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.

    〈非正式〉二流的;平庸的

    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
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