league

lig

Bir sezon boyunca birbirleriyle yarışan spor takımlarının oluşturduğu grup.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A group of sports teams that compete against each other throughout a season.

• Our team joined a new league.
• They finished first in the league last season.
• Which league does your club play in?

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: football league, league champions, league table, join a league

seviye, klasman

İnsanları veya şeyleri karşılaştırırken kullanılan kalite ya da yetenek seviyesi.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A level of quality or ability used to compare people or things.

• These two phones are in the same league.
• As a singer, she is in a different league.
• Their service is in a league of its own.

Nasıl kullanılır: in the same league as someone/something (Her latest book is in the same league as her best work.)

Eş anlamlılar: class, category

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: same league as, different league, league of its own

yetenek seviyesi

Kişinin yeteneğinin yettiği seviye; bunun dışındaki bir şey ona fazla zor gelir.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: Your range of ability; something outside it is too difficult for you.

• This job is out of my league.
• We were out of our league against the national champions.
• Is that course out of your league?

Nasıl kullanılır: out of someone's league (I tried the advanced class, but I was out of my league.)

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: out of someone's league, out of my league

birlik, cemiyet

Ortak bir amaç için birlikte çalışan kişilerin veya grupların oluşturduğu kuruluş.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: An organization of people or groups who work together for a shared aim.

• They formed a league to protect local forests.
• The league campaigns for equal voting rights.
• Several towns joined the league last year.

Eş anlamlılar: association, alliance

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: a peace league, join a league, league members

işbirliği, ittifak

Biriyle, çoğu zaman kötü bir şey yapmak için, gizlice birlikte çalışma ilişkisi.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: If you are in this relationship with someone, you work together secretly, often to do something wrong.

• The two criminals were in league.
• She suspected that her rivals were in league with each other.
• Was the official in league with the smugglers?

Nasıl kullanılır: in league with someone (The guards were in league with the thieves.)

Eş anlamlılar: collusion, alliance

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: in league with someone, in league together

fersah

Birkaç kilometreye karşılık gelen eski bir uzaklık ölçüsü; karada ve denizde uzunluğu farklıdır.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: An old measure of distance equal to several kilometres, with different lengths on land and at sea.

• The village lay one league away.
• They sailed twenty leagues before reaching the island.
• The old map measured distances in leagues.

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: one league away, a league inland, one league inland