middling

英 ['mɪdlɪŋ] 美 ['mɪdlɪŋ]

• adj. 中等的；普通的；身体尚好的
• adv. 普通地；中等地；相当地
• n. 中等品；次级品；粗面粉

英英释义

Noun:

1. any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)

Adjective:

1. lacking exceptional quality or ability;

   "a novel of average merit"
   "only a fair performance of the sonata"
   "in fair health"
   "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"
   "the performance was middling at best"
   

Adverb:

1. to a moderately sufficient extent or degree;

   "pretty big"
   "pretty bad"
   "jolly decent of him"
   "the shoes are priced reasonably"
   "he is fairly clever with computers"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. He is just a man of middling height.
   他仅仅是一个中等身材的男子。
2. This is really a very middling experience.
   这真的是很普通的一次体验。
3. He says he's only feeling middling today.
   他说他今天身体还算好。

用作副词 (adv.)

1. It is a middling nice cake.
   这是一个相当不错的蛋糕。

经典引文

• He was a man of middling height.

  出自： J. Rathbone

词汇搭配

• middle 中等的
• wheat flour middling 次等小麦粉
• middling rolls 粗粉轧辊
• middling duster 筛粗粉用的离心筛...
• middling purifier 粗粉筛
• fair to middling 过得去(还算好)...
• from fair to middling 还过得去
• only middling 过得去

近反义词

【近义词】

• tolerable 还不错的
• acceptable 合意的
• halfway 中途的
• average 平均数
• fair 公平的
• mediocre 平庸的
• usual 通常的
• typical 特有的
• ordinary 平凡的
• run-of-the-mill 不出众的
• moderate 适度的
• medium 中等的
• adequate 足够的
• all right 不错
• so-so 平常的
• Okay <表示同意或允许>好的...
• passable 过得去的
• modest 谦虚的
• passably 尚可地
• somewhat 稍微
• pretty 相当地
• reasonably 适度地
• jolly 愉快的
• fairly 公正地
• moderately 适度地