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- moderate or average in size, amount, or rank（大小、量或级别上）中等的; 普通的; 一般的：
the village contained no poor households but a lot of middling ones.
这村子没有贫困户, 但生活水平一般的有很多。
1.1
- neither very good nor very bad凑合的; 一般的：
he had had a good to middling season.
他度过了一个不特别好但也不坏的赛季。
1.2
- predic. informal (of a person) in reasonably good but not perfect health〈非正式〉（人）身体尚好的。
noun
middlings
- bulk goods of medium grade, especially flour of medium fineness中档散货（尤指中等精度面粉）。
派生词
middlingly
adverb词源
late Middle English (originally Scots)： probably from MID- + the adverbial suffix -ling.