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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Abbottina
Alaska king crab
alumogoethite
alvear
aming
appearance-reality distinction
arylam
autologous protein
autumn pumpkins
Azmin
basipharyngeal canal
cambridge-blue
carnitine deficiency
CCPIT
center-
cependant
change control authority
character displacement
chlorid
chronic granular myringitis
circular plain bearing
Clathraceae
compcsite fluid
congressional oversight
conservates
curried beef
cycloplegic
cyperaquinone
dahabeeyahs
Darvi
decriminalizing
dicantrops
don't-tell
Donders' test
dynamic change of temperature
endomorphism of algebraic system
endotheloid
ethercap
explosion-proof glass
five-year plan
flat-roofeds
floor-on-grade
forgiven and forgotten
fusible pattern
Gelsemium sempervirens
gifts
give the back of one's hands
grosshead
groundwater storage curve
high-forest
horse nettles
ilomastat
Isethadionum
isotope incorporation
josefa
lie of fetus
lightness constancy
line insertion
lucier
macrofollicular
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nolonin
nzo (new zealand obese) mouse
on site verification
open fermentation
organization cost written off
parallel inverter switch
pentacyclic triterpene
periodic observation
planning process
platoonmate
postcard
propyl-triethoxysilicane
prostatolith
QEMM
Raquelle
receiving manifold
record component
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schleider
sciurus nigers
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sheep-shank
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spindliness
split bush
square mean
suboccipital muscles
Sulfachloropyridazine
tapioca snow
thrombopathy
ton force
unproven area
uroproct
ventilation level
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warmful
washbox screenplate
water vapor cloud image
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