Middling

(noun.) any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran).

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• Yes, middling--except where the heath-croppers walk into it. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Middling, replies Mr. George, taking a chair. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A middling farmer will there sometimes have four hundred fowls in his yard. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Middling, middling, maister. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Nineteen fair to middling Wallachian girls offered at L130 . 150, but no takers; sixteen prime A 1 sold in small lots to close out--terms private. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The middling sort of man, and even the poorer sort of man upon the land, were leading an endurable existence in 1700. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• All people of small or middling fortunes would be obliged to superintend themselves the employment of their own stocks. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The houses, the furniture, the clothing of the rich, in a little time, become useful to the inferior and middling ranks of people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But in the country, many middling and almost all rich and great families, brew their own beer. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Middling, Mr. Hall. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Amy--Middling. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Middling, my dear; I cannot compliment you. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• By this statute, the high duties upon importation for home consumption are taken off, so soon as the price of middling wheat rises to 48s. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The meal was then bolted, and the tailings, consisting of bran, middlings and adherent flour, again sifted and re-ground. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Milling processes within the last twenty-five years have been completely transformed by the introduction of the roller mill and middlings purifier. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• This portion of the grain was formerly unseparated, and was mixed with the middlings and bran as an inferior product. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It seems probable that the miller of the time had a fair notion of the high grade of flour ground from middlings, but no systematic method of procedure for its production was adopted. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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