英:[ˈsekəndreit]
美:[ˌsɛkəndˈret]
英:[ˈsekəndreit]
美:[ˌsɛkəndˈret]
第二流的;二等的;次等的;平庸的
次等货,次级品;二等战舰;二流人物;
sec·ond-rate
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Adjective
1. moderate to inferior in quality;
"they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"
"he would make a poor spy"
"第二类或群体的",1660年代,最初用于船只,指"在大小、强度等方面属于第二等级"; 参见 rate(n.)。相关词: Second-rater。
The first known use of second-rate was in 1669
second-rateadjective
of second or ordinary quality or value : mediocre
1 'Luke couldn't make that sort of high grade. He was born second rate.'
2 ...another second-rate politician.
另一名二流政客
3 a second-rate song from a songwriter who has done much better
4 Movies based on vintage, often second-rate network shows don’t usually offer audiences much more than weak, watery nostalgia.
5 The play was second-rate and provincial.
6 According to Charter, Disney had placed some of its best content exclusively on its streamers, leaving cable with second-rate content.
7 American doctors are excellent but so are physicians around the globeU.S. physicians believe that training outside the states is a second-rate education.
8 Aside from the weather, hourlong wait times for food, defective wristbands and second-rate VIP experiences were among the complaints from festivalgoers.
9 The world’s most valuable basketball franchise has a second-rate broadcasting team.
10 a second-rate company that was never considered among the top manufacturers of televisions
11 second-rate goods specifically manufactured for the low end of the market
12 Are you real or a second rate sports card?
你们是假的仍是二淌游戏卡?
13 What about your second rate friends?
那你的二等朋友 怎么办 ?
14 East Coast media have started to sour on sample sale culture, with their hours-long waits, appointment systems and second-rate selection.
15 Not very good books..but good of a second-rate kind.
16 ...second-rate restaurants.
二流餐馆
17 Imagine an English literature course that included no books written after 1600; a philosophy syllabus designed on the assumption that all philosophers after David Hume were second-rate; an archaeology professor who refused to teach anything postdating the Lower Paleolithic.
18 That book is only second rate.
那本书只是第二流的作品.
19 And now, your weakness is why you will always be second rate.
而现在, 你的弱点就是为什么你永远是二流水平.
20 Greek literature is the real thing and Latin a second-rate imitation.
1 普通
bog-standard standard general simple common average regular ordinary generic vanilla mediocre commonplace run-of-the-mill so-so middling unimpressive unspectacular quotidian garden-variety white-bread unexceptional workaday ordinarily mediocrity common or garden
2 次等
bush-league second-drawer scrub inferior second-class small-time larry cut-rate cockamamy second secondary sad scrubby second-string subordination second drawer
3 平凡
run-of-mill even small common usual everyday ordinary pedestrian literal trivial mediocre prose mundane commonplace barren indifferent lowly uneventful uninspired banal run-of-the-mill prosaic matter-of-fact featureless humdrum homespun quotidian bread-and-butter C undistinguished toneless workaday characterless bathetic singsong platitudinous prosy bromidic noteless common-or-garden mundanely banally trivialism mediocrity platitude banality triviality mundanity commonness homeliness bathos stodginess prosiness trivialize ten a penny two a penny old hat
4 第二级的
5 普通的
bog-standard standard general simple common average regular ordinary generic vanilla mediocre commonplace run-of-the-mill so-so middling unimpressive unspectacular quotidian garden-variety white-bread unexceptional workaday common or garden
6 劣等
7 平庸
bush-league mean ordinary literal mediocre commonplace frantic lowly banal minor-league undistinguished bromidic cotton-picking vanilla mediocrity picayune half-pie low average commercial pedestrian indifferent bourgeois Philistine hackneyed Biedermeier platitude copybook not so hot nondescript middlebrow plain unremarkable unimpressive underwhelming prosaic banality
8 平庸的
bush-league mean ordinary literal mediocre commonplace frantic lowly banal minor-league undistinguished bromidic cotton-picking average moderate suburban bland indifferent half-pie picayune low commercial pedestrian bourgeois Philistine hackneyed Biedermeier copybook not so hot nondescript middlebrow plain unremarkable unimpressive underwhelming prosaic
10 二等
11 平凡的
run-of-mill even small common usual everyday ordinary pedestrian literal trivial mediocre prose mundane commonplace barren indifferent lowly uneventful uninspired banal run-of-the-mill prosaic matter-of-fact featureless humdrum homespun quotidian bread-and-butter C undistinguished toneless workaday characterless bathetic singsong platitudinous prosy bromidic noteless common-or-garden ten a penny two a penny old hat
12 二流的
second-drawer mediocre middling minor-league semiclassical second-string small-fry minor second-class B one-horse B-list
13 劣等的
15 二流人物
16 次等的
bush-league second-drawer scrub inferior second-class small-time larry cut-rate cockamamy second demi- bush league common secondary sad scrubby second-string second drawer
17 次等货