0 If you do something big time, you do it to a great degree. -- 很大程度上,非常
1 the state of being famous or successful -- 出名,成功
A lot of the big-time collectors even go through phone books and other sources to find the original artists.
There's the big-time collectors and the diggers.
There, a petty, small-time criminal will meet big-time criminals who know how to turn him into one of them.
Something is fundamentally wrong with the economics of big-time football.
There is then a gradation in criminal activity, however, in which some landlords in our cities are committing organised big-time fraud.
Why should families paying off long-term mortgages become the victims of short-term changes brought about by big-time money speculators?
It is probably more than an inspector's life is worth to take issue with the big-time fraudsters who prosper under the system.
It is not always possible to win over big-time villains by negotiation alone.