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

• Tom, it was middling warm in school, warn't it?
  汤姆，学校里挺热的，对吧？
• 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。
• Between 1993 and 2006, the proportion of jobs with middling pay fell, while high-and low-paid employment rose.
  1993年至2006年期间，中等工资水平的工作所占的比例下降，而高薪和低薪工作的占比都上升了。
• The meal is fair to middling.
  这餐饭菜还算过得去。
• 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；
• Researching on Art's Course in Middling Speciality Preschool Normal School in Pingdingshan Area of Henan Province
  河南省平顶山地区中等专业幼儿师范学校美术课程研究
• 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？
• 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；
• The solution for series problems including middling has perfected the magnetite cationic reverse flotation process by flotation column, opening a wider prospect for the application of this process.
  而中矿等一系列问题的解决，也完善了磁铁矿浮选柱阳离子反浮选工艺，为该工艺的应用开辟了更广阔的前景。
• Poor to middling in quality.
  品质介于差和中等之间的。