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？
• 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；
• 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；
• Poor to middling in quality.
  品质介于差和中等之间的。
• The paper raises an idea about building small section subway in middling city of our country, and discusses primarily the building cost, building technique and vehicle equipment, etc.
  本文提出了在我国中等城市修建小断面地铁的设想，并就造价、施工技术及车辆设备等有关因素作了初步探讨。
• 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。
• Heart, became almost deprived of his senses and slow, middling and quick motion.
  心，成为多少乎剥夺了他的理智和缓慢，中等和快速的议案。
• I was middling well till I see you, young fellow, said the old woman.
  “不看见你我倒是挺好的，小伙子。”老妪说道。
• 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。
• 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