middling sort

基本解釋

The "middling sort" bought goods and services because they wanted to follow fashions set by the rich.
“中產(chǎn)階級(jí)”購(gòu)買優(yōu)質(zhì)商品和服務(wù)，是因?yàn)樗麄兿胱冯S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.
或許只有那些質(zhì)量一般、胡編亂造的所謂“熱銷作品”才會(huì)無(wú)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.
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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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中等階層
Middling sort was the primary beneficiary, which perfected the social structure. And the authority of the common law was confirmed further, which laid a foundation for the society governed by law.
研究表明，不僅在親緣上，而且在業(yè)務(wù)上，普通法律師都是依托中等階層而興起并不斷發(fā)展的；在律師執(zhí)業(yè)和參政過(guò)程中，中等階層成為主要受益者，普通法的權(quán)威得到進(jìn)一步的鞏固，這有助于英國(guó)社會(huì)結(jié)構(gòu)的改善，并為法治社會(huì)的建立奠定了基礎(chǔ)。