middling sort

常見例句

The "middling sort" bought goods and services because they wanted to follow fashions set by the rich.
“中産堦級(jí)”購(gòu)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(fèi)時(shí)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(huì)無法長(zhǎng)久立足，而真正受歡迎的作品仍將一如既往地強(qiáng)勢(shì)。

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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