second-rate
英 [ˌsekənd ˈreɪt]
美 [ˌsekənd ˈreɪt]
adj. 二流的; 平庸的; 普通的
Collins.1
牛津词典
adj.
- 二流的;平庸的;普通的
not very good or impressive- a second-rate player
平庸的运动员
- a second-rate player
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 二流的;二等的;劣质的
If you describe something assecond-rate, you mean that it is of poor quality.- ...second-rate restaurants.
二流餐馆 - ...another second-rate politician.
另一名二流政客
- ...second-rate restaurants.
英英释义
adj
- moderate to inferior in quality
- they improved the quality from mediocre to above average
双语例句
- His works are second-rate productions, alongside those of some of his contemporaries.
他的作品跟他同时代一些人比起来,只算得二流的作品。 - You cannot expect a good response to an advertisement if you place it in a second-rate magazine.
如果你在第二流的杂志上刊登广告,你别想收到好的效果。 - I think guilt is a second-rate emotion.
我认为内疚是情感中的次等品。 - Viewers will have to make do with tired re-runs and second-rate movies
电视观众只能将就着看一下已经看厌了的重播节目和二流电影。 - As a director, he's second-rate at best.
作为一名导演,他至多属于二流。 - You think you're second-rate and there's nothing you can do.
你觉得你自己只是个二流的货色,而且你永远不可能成为一流的。 - We bought it in a second-rate department store.
我们在一家二流的百货店买下它的。 - Of lesser quality than second-rate.
质量上比二等还要差的。 - Compared with civil and political rights, economic, social, and cultural rights have some differences, but we should not treat them as "the second-rate rights", and they are as well as the basic tights that civil mankind enjoy.
摘要虽然经济、社会和文化权利与公民权利和政治权利相比具有一些不同的特点,但前者并非“二等权利”,也是文明人类所享有的基本权利。 - She's just a second-rate hack.
她只是个二流的记者。