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。









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amendments to the constitution
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ancestor node
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audio-tutorial method
autopharmacology
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berton
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break ... neck
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dick
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electrical strip tension detector
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enshielding
farcinate
fire fly
gibeau
give me some skin
grid identification note
grisea
gross flux distribution
hairspring holder
half finished parts
hard rights
heavy lift
high-temperature thermomechanical treatment
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inbred line chick
independent verification and validation
intercarrier television
intervillous circulation
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light weight cement
localizationism
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manhole cover ring
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melanthin
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