大舞台（名詞）
這一支就是核心畫面本身：那個最大的舞台。
noun · B2
The level where you are famous and successful — the top level of a field, especially in entertainment, sport, or politics. It takes 'the', and it nearly always follows hit, make it to, or reach.
成名／一流的舞台
核心畫面
One way to hold this phrase — a memory hook, not a piece of history — is to picture the biggest stage in a field: the brightest lights, the largest crowd, the level everybody has heard of. That stage is the big time, the place a performer or a player arrives at. Then imagine taking the size of that stage and sticking it onto something you did: not an ordinary amount, but a stage-sized amount. That is the adverb — lose big time, owe you big time.
可以想成一個領域裡最大的那個舞台：燈最亮、觀眾最多、大家都聽過的那一層。那個舞台就是 the big time，是表…更多收起
可以想成一個領域裡最大的那個舞台：燈最亮、觀眾最多、大家都聽過的那一層。那個舞台就是 the big time，是表演者或選手「終於走上去」的地方。接著再想像：把那個舞台的「大」直接貼到一件事情上——不是普通的程度，是大場面等級的程度。那就是副詞的用法，lose big time、owe you big time。這只是幫助記憶的想法，不是歷史考證。Two branches
大場面等級的程度（副詞）
把舞台的「大」拿下來，貼到一件事的程度上。這是理解上的連結，不是說歷史上真的這樣演變。
r · B2
Very much, or by a long way. It goes after the verb or at the end of what you say, and it makes whatever came before it sound bigger: lose big time, mess up big time, owe someone big time.
大大地；徹底地
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
big timenoun
- 1
The highest, or most prestigious level in any field, especially in entertainment.
- This was a rare whiff of the big-time for a club whose staple diet became top-flight football for so long - the glamour was in short supply, however. Thousands of empty seats and the driving Yorkshire rain saw to that.
big timeadv
- 1
informalBy a large margin; with great significance.
- A Wheel of Fortune contestant was about to win a shot at the million dollar grand prize when he bumbled his answer and lost out big time.
- “American doesn’t hedge,” said Seth Kaplan, managing partner for the trade publication Airlines Weekly. “So, they have won big time.”
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。