形容詞 world-class:

1. ranking above all others
   同義詞：first, foremost

world-class

adj.（形容詞）
Ranking among the foremost in the world; of an international standard of excellence; of the highest order:
世界級的：在世界上最前面的；出色的國際水平的；最高等級的：
例句：
a world-class figure skater.
世界級花樣滑冰選手

Usage Problem Great, as in importance, concern, or notoriety.
【用法疑難】 國際水準(zhǔn)的：偉大的，如在重要性、關(guān)系或聞名度上

The adjectiveworld-class became current as a result of its original use to describe athletes capable of performing at an international level of competition, as inA ten-second time would put him in the first rank of world-class sprinters. In recent years it has been extended to mean .of an international standard of excellence. and has been applied to a wide variety of categories.When used of things that naturally admit such comparison,the extended use of the word is generally acceptable to the Usage Panel.In the most recent survey '5 percent accepted the descriptionworld-class restaurant, and 53 percent acceptedworld-class sports car. But the expression is not generally accepted as a vague way of emphasizing magnitude or degree.The sentenceJohann Sebastian Bach`s 300th birthday will rank as a world-class anniversary was acceptable to only 7 percent, and only 4 percent accepted a newspaper`s description of AIDS asa world-class tragedy.
形容詞world-class 由于其最初用來形容運(yùn)動(dòng)員參加世界水平比賽的表現(xiàn)能力而流行起來， 如在十秒的成績可以把他列為世界一流的短跑運(yùn)動(dòng)員中。 最近幾年把它擴(kuò)展到意為.出色的國際水平的.并適用于廣泛的類別。當(dāng)用于其本身允許的那類比較的事物時(shí)，這種擴(kuò)展的用法通常為慣用法小組所接受。在最近的調(diào)查中有百分之六十五的人接受了世界一流的餐廳 這一描述， 并有百分之五十三的人接受了世界一流跑車。 但是這種表達(dá)作為強(qiáng)調(diào)幅度或程度的含糊方式?jīng)]有被廣泛接受。約翰·塞巴斯帝安·巴赫的三百周年誕辰紀(jì)念將列為世界一流的周年紀(jì)念 這句話只有百分之七的人接受， 并且只有百分之四的人接受了一家報(bào)紙把愛滋病報(bào)道為世界級悲劇