英语释义

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

• of no 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"

• to a moderately sufficient extent or degree;

  "the shoes are priced reasonably"

  "he is fairly clever with computers"

  "they lived comfortably within reason"

片语

fair to middling过得去；还算好

middling screening中矿筛分

Middling regrinding中矿再磨

good middling上级

middling coal中煤

middling urbanization中度城市化

middling zone中矿带

just middling不过尔尔

middling sort中等阶层

middling recurrence中矿返回

英汉例句

• an interesting idea, and perhaps one way of easing the identity crisis which looms over the bank as it deals with middling countries.

  谈谈一个有趣的想法，也可能是缓和世行与中等国家做生意时所出现的认同危机的一种途径。

• the united states rang in somewhere above greece and below canada, a middling performance we「ve repeated every round since.

  美国排在希腊之前，加拿大之后，一个中等的位置。此后的每次测试都是这个结果。

• sitting on an unnavigable river in a valley of middling agricultural productivity, the city has been forced to prosper on ingenuity: fine craftsmanship, creative banking practices, slick diplomacy.

  这座城市坐落在一条不适合航行的河流上，处于一片农业生产能力中等的流域当中，不得不凭借创造力——精美的手工艺，颇具创意的银行业务，圆滑的外交手腕，实现它的欣欣向荣。

• few such middling black holes have been discovered, and scientists aren」t sure how they form.

  少数几个中等质量的黑洞已经被发现了，但是科学家们还不能肯定它们是怎样形成的。

• poor countries fear the fund and choose to suppress its conclusions; middling countries quarrel with it; rich countries ignore it.

  贫穷国家害怕该组织，并禁止发表其结论；中等国家不赞同该结论；而富裕国家则忽视该结论。

• the lovely bones might not be so disappointing were it made by a director of middling talents.

  《可爱的骨头》若是出自一位才华平庸的导演之手也许还不至于如此令人失望。

• the middling poor, those on $2 a day, are pulling children from school and cutting back on vegetables so they can still afford rice.

  那些一天挣两美元的一般贫困家庭让他们的孩子辍学回家而且削减在蔬菜上的支出使得他们仍能买得起米。

• wheat middling was the chosen grain for feeding milk cows.

  中等的小麦是为喂养奶牛而挑选出来的。

• that’s true for even the most middling of experiences.

  这是真的,即使是一般的体验。

• the united states rang in somewhere above greece and below canada, a middling performance we’ve repeated every round since.

  美国排在希腊之前，加拿大之后，一个中等的位置。从那时起，我们隔段时间就会重复一下这个结果。

• few believe the future lies in premium-ish products and middling scale.

  很少有人相信未来是新闻产品开始收费，而消费者规模局限于中等规模。

• at the nadir of the recession, this middling course served france better than germany’s served it.

  在衰退低谷，这一中间道路为法国所做的贡献要比德国路线为其所做的更好。

• but here too there are anomalies: russia is ranked as a middling country in terms of state weakness, but does worse in the corruption index; italy scores below some african countries.

  然而也有反例：以政权的乏力程度而论，俄罗斯只能算中等，然而其腐败指数却相对较高；意大利的腐败指数也比某些非洲国家要高很多。

• for shows of middling popularity, including many scripted dramas and comedies, life is harder.

  像是很多改编的戏剧和喜剧这些人气中等的演出难谋生计。

• in the right context, a middling show can survive.

  在适当的场合，中等的节目能幸存。

• as for foreign policy, it is hard for middling powers to make a splash in the world.

  外交政策方面，一个中等国家很难在世界范围搞出什么大动作。

• the computer model used is of only middling sophistication, dr schmittner admits.

  schmittner博士承认，他所使用的计算机模式只是中等复杂的程度。

• it is a middling country in terms of household income—roughly half of italy’s—and also faces a rapidly aging population.

  从居民收入来看俄罗斯是个中等国家，居民收入大约为意大利的一半，也面临人口迅速老龄化的问题。

• unlike the residents of great northern cities, or gilded areas of the south, middling suburbia has no tribal or historical link with either labour or the conservatives.

  不同于北方大城市的居民，或者南方富有区域的居民，中产阶层的郊区居民跟工党和保守党都没有血缘和历史上的关系。

• sony「s middling e-readers haven」t exactly been critical darlings, but they're still solid and dependable.

  sony公司的中等的电子阅读器并不是必不可少的宠儿，但是他们依然结实并且值得信赖。

• most are for 「petty」 patents: middling technology that undergoes minimal review and receives only a 10-year term.

  其中大部分属于 「微型」专利：只需要经过最简单审查并只有10年有效期的中等技术。

相似词

tolerable可以的；可容忍的

halfway中途的；不彻底的

acceptable可接受的；合意的；可忍受的