喜樂美語

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。

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意思相近

stardomthe topthe big leaguea lotbadlymassivelyin a big way

意思相反

obscuritythe minor leaguesslightlya little

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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

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    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

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    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：

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