middling

middling
adjective
  1. 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
  1. (middlings)bulk goods of medium grade, especially flour of medium fineness
    中档散货(尤指中等精度面粉)
adverb
  1. [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
  1. late Middle English (originally Scots): probably from mid- + the adverbial suffix -ling
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