Middling
['mɪd(ə)lɪŋ] or ['mɪdlɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran).
以利沙整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.
伯纳黛特校對
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Ordinary, average, moderate, passable, tolerable, well enough, pretty well, not bad.
編輯:勒罗伊
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Ordinary, average, pretty_well, not_bad, well_enough,[See TOLERABLE]
艾米編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Yes, middling--except where the heath-croppers walk into it. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Middling, replies Mr. George, taking a chair. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- A middling farmer will there sometimes have four hundred fowls in his yard. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Middling, middling, maister. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Nineteen fair to middling Wallachian girls offered at L130 . 150, but no takers; sixteen prime A 1 sold in small lots to close out--terms private. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The middling sort of man, and even the poorer sort of man upon the land, were leading an endurable existence in 1700. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- All people of small or middling fortunes would be obliged to superintend themselves the employment of their own stocks. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The houses, the furniture, the clothing of the rich, in a little time, become useful to the inferior and middling ranks of people. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But in the country, many middling and almost all rich and great families, brew their own beer. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Middling, Mr. Hall. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Amy--Middling. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Middling, my dear; I cannot compliment you. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- By this statute, the high duties upon importation for home consumption are taken off, so soon as the price of middling wheat rises to 48s. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The meal was then bolted, and the tailings, consisting of bran, middlings and adherent flour, again sifted and re-ground. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Milling processes within the last twenty-five years have been completely transformed by the introduction of the roller mill and middlings purifier. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- This portion of the grain was formerly unseparated, and was mixed with the middlings and bran as an inferior product. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It seems probable that the miller of the time had a fair notion of the high grade of flour ground from middlings, but no systematic method of procedure for its production was adopted. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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