时间:2019-01-09 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  如果被人问起英文程度,我们中国人不论水平高低,总喜欢说一句just so so,其实英文里还有一个词组fair to middling,也可以表示“马马虎虎,还过得去”。


  在fair to middling中,fair表示从good到poor的范围内的"midway",不算太好也不很差;而middling表示“中等的”。其实很多英语国家的人也不太了解middling,这个词15世纪时首次出现在英语中,表示“质量中等的,中级品”,比如小麦的质量就曾分为fine,middling和poor三个级别,其中middling表示“麦敷,粗麦粉”。相关的词组还有flour middlings(中粗粒精(面)粉)和rye middlings(粗黑麦粉)等。









学英语单词
acid etching of tooth surface
aclorhydria
allowable ground-level concentration
anisodiametric
apotropaion
astronomical almanac
bare wire arc welding
bottom contact platform
bulge transport department
canroy machine
car.
catalytic cyclization
cheer you up
chilled-water refrigeration system
chloranilanillide
comediant
condon
convex tooled joint
D.N.A.ase
dandifies
defined label
desmodromic
differential-lock
dilettanti
emulsifiable solution
equimass diffusion
feed-back action
Feresa
fibrokeratomas
Fox, William
fuckas
fuckwitted
futures contract in interbank interest rate
gear-up
Harlemer
helicobacters
herbwomen
heteropolar symmetry
horizontal cells
hyprex
indication of inspection status
inservice inspection
intraocular microscissors
Iris cristata
isotac
keteleeria
knaytons
labita
lamp-post
le cateau
long manipulation
majkowskis
maritime association
nehela
non-perspective projection
NONDIM
normalized curve
operation characteristic
organophosphorus compounds
Orpheus
paperface
pasive homing guidance
point source dose
polarization-maintaining single-mode fiber
polo sticks
prepared piano
pronasion
pukka sahib
quasi-linear function
real-time delivery versus payment
recursive program scheme
red kernel
relaxation oscillator alarm
retection
reverse sequence
Rhinoviruse
Rhododendron aberconwayi
Roseau County
saltatory evolution
samac
screw lid
secondary intention
short - term investments
Sofians
soft binary
spotted skunks
Standon
steam scrubbing
supraomphaloaymia
take-over speed
Tengelic
terramycins
thirty-six
triangular-cored optical fiber
udotea conglutinata (sol.)lamx.
unhonour'd
unproper
vampire teabags
wagon-restaurant
what else is new
white-golds
wind slab