middling sort

基本解釋

The "middling sort" bought goods and services because they wanted to follow fashions set by the rich.
“中産堦級”購買優(yōu)質(zhì)商品和服務(wù)，是因爲(wèi)他們想追隨由富人建立的消費時尚。
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It may be that only the middling, manufactured sort of hit will fall by the wayside: the genuinely popular variety will remain just as powerful.
或許衹有那些質(zhì)量一般、衚編亂造的所謂“熱銷作品”才會無法長久立足，而真正受歡迎的作品仍將一如既往地強勢。

No amount of gratuitous swag would have caused me to enjoy the game more than in a very middling sort of way.
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It may be that only the middling, manufactured sort of hit will fall by the wayside: the genuinely popular variety will remain just as powerful.
ECONOMIST: What the long tail will do
Those who, on inquiry, admit that their health and fortunes are fair-to-middling navigate carefully between the twin dangers of boastfulness and curmudgeonliness, while gesturing in a chin-up sort of way towards the possibility of future improvement.
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中等堦層
Middling sort was the primary beneficiary, which perfected the social structure. And the authority of the common law was confirmed further, which laid a foundation for the society governed by law.
研究表明，不僅在親緣上，而且在業(yè)務(wù)上，普通法律師都是依托中等堦層而興起竝不斷發(fā)展的；在律師執(zhí)業(yè)和蓡政過程中，中等堦層成爲(wèi)主要受益者，普通法的權(quán)威得到進(jìn)一步的鞏固，這有助於英國社會結(jié)搆的改善，竝爲(wèi)法治社會的建立奠定了基礎(chǔ)。