middling

英 [ˈmɪdlɪŋ]

美 [ˈmɪdlɪŋ]

adj.  (大小、品质、地位等)中间的，普通的，中等的

现在分词：middling　

BNC.24643 / COCA.22722

习惯用语

adj.

fair to middling
• 一般水平；不过不失
  not particularly good or bad

牛津词典

adj.

• （大小、品质、地位等）中间的，普通的，中等的
  of average size, quality, status, etc.
  1. a golfer of middling talent
     能力一般的高尔夫球手

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 中等的;普通的;不好不坏的
  If you describe a quality such as the size of something asmiddling, you mean that it is average.
  1. The Beatles enjoyed only middling success until 1963.
     直到1963年，甲壳虫乐队还只是半红不紫。
  2. ...a man of middling height.
     中等身材的男子

英英释义

noun

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

adj

• lacking exceptional quality or ability
  1. a novel of average merit
  2. only a fair performance of the sonata
  3. in fair health
  4. the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average
  5. the performance was middling at best
  Synonym:averagefairmediocre

adv

• to a moderately sufficient extent or degree
  1. pretty big
  2. pretty bad
  3. jolly decent of him
  4. the shoes are priced reasonably
  5. he is fairly clever with computers
  Synonym:reasonablymoderatelyprettyjollysomewhatfairlypassably

双语例句

• Effects of different NPK proportion on growth, yield and quality of Wuta-cai in middling soil fertility were studied.
  研究了在中等土壤肥力水平下不同NPK配比对乌塌菜生长及产量品、质的影响。
• Study on the Mechanism of Selective Classification, Regrinding and Flotation of Flotation Middling
  浮选中矿选择性分级再磨浮选机理研究
• Poor to middling in quality.
  品质介于差和中等之间的。
• He was never more than a fair to middling student.
  他只是一个马马虎虎、混得过去的学生。
• From the infrastructure, our country's cities are middling and hold definite base to compete.
  从基础设施看，我国城市居中等水平，具有一定的竞争基础。
• The "middling sort" bought goods and services because they wanted to follow fashions set by the rich.
  “中产阶级”购买优质商品和服务，是因为他们想追随由富人建立的消费时尚。
• The results show the collectivity satisfaction degree score is0.331, which belongs to superior middling.
  结果表明，当前昌吉地区村民对村干部的总体满意度得分为0.331，处于中等偏上水平；
• A middling Old World power, how is France to do this?
  作为一个欧洲中等国家，法国要如何恢复其昔日地位呢？
• That shows in middling jobs and wages.
  这一点在中等技术工作和中等工资中得到了体现。
• The results showed that the prune degree is of the upright effects in the florescence control and flowers increasing, which are integrating with the mass prune, middling prune and bit prune.
  试验结果表明：修剪强度对月季花期调控和增加花量具有较大的效应，采用强修剪、中度修剪和弱修剪相结合的修剪方式有利于调控花期；