moderate or average in size, amount, or rank (大小、量或级别上)中等的;普通的;一般的 the village contained no poor households but a lot of middling ones. 这村子没有贫困户,但生活水平一般的有很多。 ■neither very good nor very bad 凑合的;一般的 he had had a good to middling season. 他度过了一个不特别好但也不坏的季节。 ■[predic.](informal)(of a person) in reasonably good but not perfect health (非正式)(人)身体尚好的
noun
(middlings)bulk goods of medium grade, especially flour of medium fineness 中档散货(尤指中等精度面粉)
adverb
[as submodifier](informal, dated)fairly or moderately (非正式,旧)中等程度地 middling rich. 中等富有。
派生 middlingly adverb 语源
late Middle English (originally Scots): probably from mid- + the adverbial suffix -ling