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But the cartoonist is making a pun here, as bush league is also "Bush league", second-rate because it comes from people with minds like that of President George W. Bush.
但是漫画家在此用的是双关语，因为灌木球联就是“布什球联”——一个二流的球联，因为它的人员组成都是头脑像布什总统那样的人。
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He wooed her with expensive gifts and sponsored her through Chica Med, a second-rate beauty pageant organizers concede was viewed as a cattle market by gangsters looking for new girls.
万利拉向尤雅娜求爱，用贵重的礼品来打动她的芳心，还赞助她参加了一个二流的选美比赛。组织者们承认，黑帮们把这个比赛看作寻觅新女孩的牲畜市场。
All these infrastructure improvements are rapidly making the telcos' Intelligent Network a distinctly second-rate choice.
所有这些基础设施的迅速改善使得电信公司智能网成了一个明显的二流的选择。

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