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
a frog in one's throat
accumulated tolerance
acousto-optic delay line
Adapazarι
adjuvantly
Allophylus petelotii
annealing-in-line process
auxiliary condensing plant
banana label
bee assassins
Better a litter loss than a long sorrow.
blazing angle
bullen
career-breaks
ceny
Clotheswringer
cornerways
cover strata
curse of knowledge
drouillard
effective emission height
electronic trunk scale
embryonal rhabdosarcoma
Emmeloord
enamelling operation
excess nutrient
eye cup
faywood
floating dust
forastero cacao
fractionalizes
genkinite
glass embossing
government promissory note
Gulf Coast
hamfatters
Hercegovac
heterologous graft
hijabis
HVC (hardened voice circuit)
icono-
infrared radiation
joint amphibious task force
k.w
Keupers
legal ground
Lifamatola, Pulau
Linkin Park
measurement of reflection factor
meglucamine diatrizoate
milk the ram
mitten (mitt)
new medium
non-ionic emulsifier
notch contraction ratio
nothopanax dividii (franch) harms
officer's car
operating system error isolation
oral work
out-book
petty cash current deposit
plate heater
plumbeus
potok
printer character band
pulsed electron capture detector
Purdy Point
quantum indeterminacy
realpolitikers
recovery of payment made by mistake
Rhododendron dendricola
sandbath
scarin
shortnesses
socket wrench
space walk
stain-fast
stay out of sth
superplays
Tarkastad
thalloid climax
the fourth root law
theory of braids
tracing flow
tracking spot
traffic accessibility
trimethyloxybutyrobetain
uncircuitous
uncisor'd
under-feature
unhomed
upe
upvalued
uredo vitis
VM (virtual memory)
VPU
water ram
weighted pushdown language
Widsith
Wilms' method
writ of detinue
wrythen