1.〈美俚〉名士
1.a famous person in a particular activity
1.Mr Madoff was himself a big name, having been a chairman of the Nasdaq exchange, and his investors regarded him as a Wall Street insider.
马多夫自己就是个名人——他曾任纳斯达克（Nasdaq）证交所主席，他的投资者将他视为华尔街的内部人士。
2.Paulson is not the only big name caught up in the storm.
保尔森并不是卷入这场风暴的唯一大牌人物。
3.Source Code was an opportunity to show what I could do with a big-name star on a bigger budget.
《源代码》是一次我可以获得大制作和大明星合作的机会。
4.Big-name jewelers are battling it out to get celebrities to wear their bling.
大牌珠宝商们为了让名人们戴他们的高档首饰正在一争高下。
5.Apollo is just one of several big name companies that have disclosed they have accounting issues over the last few weeks.
Apollo不过是过去数周揭露有帐务问题的公司中，名号较为响亮的数家企业之一。
6.No longer at the top of the league, the Lakers needed the buzz of a big-name hire, and there was none bigger than Jackson.
球队不再是联盟的强队，这使得湖人需要雇用一名大牌教练，而没有教练的名气要比杰克逊的大了。
7.There used to only be a dozen big-name guys in the business, and I'm talking less than 10 years ago.
在这个行当中曾经只有12个有名的男演员——我只是在说不到10年前的事情。
8.AMANPOUR: But is it because he's such a big name that he's not, you know, more seriously punished and cracked down, do you think?
阿曼普尔：但是不是因为艾未未太有名了，所以一直没被，比如说，受到更严重的惩罚或者镇压？你觉得呢？
9.If the creators of Glee do decide to take up Anne's story idea, she would not be the first big name star to get a cameo.
如果《欢乐合唱团》的制作人采纳了安妮的建议，剧集的客串名单中将再添一笔星光。
10.To be fair, CIC wasn't the only sovereign - wealth investor burned by dalliances with big -name U. S. investment firms.
公平地讲，中投公司并不是在与声名赫赫的美国投资公司的交往中唯一一个受伤的主权财富投资者。