mid·dling /ˈmɪdlɪŋ, lən/
(a.)中等的,普通的,平凡的(ad.)中等,相當地
Mid·dling a. Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary. “A town of but middling size.”
Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants. --Hawthorne.
-- Mid*dling*ly, adv. -- Mid*dling*ness, n.
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middling
adj : 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" [syn: average, fair, mediocre]
n : any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially
when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with
bran)
adv : to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are
priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with
computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason"
[syn: reasonably, moderately, within reason, somewhat,
fairly, passably] [ant: unreasonably, unreasonably]