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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acquired jejunoileum diverticulum
active infrared detection
ACZ
archsee
assimilable
atypical tarantulas
back splint
bad actors
be preferable to
billi cycle
black-box function
bobby fischers
Can. Bank.
Cephaelis ipecacuanha A.
character-coded system service
Chinese language computer system
circuit parameter measuring equipment
clamping area
clief
completed operations liability
container packing
coolin'
D.Sc.Eco.
dependent coefficient
drop model (of nucleus)
dry ash free
dulcimores
dyskinetic
edlina
ethyl margarate
framed partition
Ganjābād
ghors
glucagonoma syndrome(necrolytic migratory erythe-ma)
grout mix
ham saw
hard-knocks
hardover signal
have one's knife in
helmet orchids
hemisphereical and net radiometer
high-frequency plasma generator
hygroscopic expansion
inthroning
isobutyl carbamate
karseys
Katerynopil'
keowns
light intermittent test
liquid viscosimetry
local body
macroclimatic
maneuverer
marginal blepharitis
matron
me sio-
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multivariate random variable
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narrow gauges
nitridize
nonparoxysmal
Ober test
observations
offthe
Petitmenginia matsumurae
playdom
predictor servomechanism
prolusion
proper authority
push-along
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Retamosa
rice soup with chicken
rose-reamer
San Andrés de Giles
self-acting slope
single-leg propeller strut
Sourbassis silk
Sovu Is.
speed-limit indicator
sphaero-crystal
Sqn.Ldr.
stable phugoid
startlers
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stomach glands
syndrome of lung heat and intestine-dryness
taxonomic phonemics
tetragonal tetartohedral class
thowen
threshold of illuminance
Thüringen, Land
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to that degree
tribenzylethyl tin
uncoverest
v-perfects
varanoid
video type display
weak local holomorphy
zoozoos