second rate
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英
- n.次等货；次级品；二等战舰；二流人物
- adj.第二流的；二等的；次等的
- 网络指次等地位的人或物；二级
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
That India cannot seem to do any of these things suggests that it will always be a second-rate power.
然而印度似乎无法做到其中任何一条，它看起来总是个二流国家。
Even the second-rate rail systems of the next level are at least as good as anything pulling out of an American station.
即使他们的二等铁路系统也不比从我们火车站里拖出的任何一辆火车差。
Mr. Lin gnawed his lips. He vowed he would raise his prices the next day. He would charge first grade prices for second-rate merchandise.
那时候，林先生便咬一下嘴唇，决定明天无论如何要把货码提高，要把次等货标上头等货的价格。
As if things are not bad enough, Miss Lavish published a second-rate romantic novel, and inside, a kiss scene on the top of an Italian hill!
好像事情还不够糟糕，拉维希小姐出版了一本二流言情小说，书已竟有一场在意大利的山上的吻戏！
Gordon: I don't know what you're thinking, but I disagree. He is nothing but a second-rate actor.
戈登：我不知道你是怎么想的，我不同意你的看法。他只不过是个二流演员。
It was really like a second-rate TV drama. The whole family was crying. I had never imagined that it would ever happen to me.
这真像是一部二流电视剧。所有的人都在哭。我从未想过这种事情会发生在我身上。
Arriving at Forbes, he found a second-rate investment magazine running flattery about corporations.
麦克尔斯来到福布斯后，他发现世界二流投资型杂志却对大企业处处奉承。
Feel like the absence of a bachelor's degree on your resume is forcing you to settle for a second-rate job?
感到履历里没有学士学位迫使你满足于一份二流工作？
The rock is widely corroded, especially the second-rate hornblende is all over the rock.
岩石蚀变普遍，特别是次闪石化遍及整个岩体。
The president is satisfied with a second-rate American economy produced by his third-rate policies, " said Pawlenty. " I am not.
他说：“总统对用他的三流政策产生出的二流美国经济感到满意。我不满意。”
You're nothing but a second-rate actor. You'll never amount to anything.
你只不过是个二流演员，将永远一文不值。
The German Army had already been depleted by its previous campaigns in Russia and diluted by inclusion of its second-rate allies.
德军由于在俄国的历次战役已经消耗殆尽，同时又由于它的二流水平的盟军参加了它的队伍而削弱了自己的力量。
Tom King was getting old; and old men, fighting before second-rate clubs, couldn't expect to run bills of any size with the tradesmen.
在二等俱乐部里操练的老拳击手们，无论多少数目的钱，谁都不能指望向那些个生意人欠帐赊货。
Jonathan: There've been a lot of stories that factories in Eastern Europe are using second-rate materials to save costs.
一直都有谣传，说许多东欧工厂使用次级的原料来节省成本。
He had been graduated from a second-rate medical school in Oklahoma and had practised in a small town ever since.
他在俄克拉何马州一所二流的医科学校毕业后就一直在一个小镇上行医。
It's a center for finance and media, but London may be best understood as a world-class city in a second-rate country.
金融和传媒中心，但也许对伦敦最好的理解可能是把它作为一个位于二流发达国家的世界级都市。
and venomous-tongued enemies has ever reproached me with being called upon to play the romantic lead in a second-rate theatre?
无数诽谤我、污蔑我的敌人中有谁曾骂过我适合在某个二流戏院扮演头等情人的色色呢？
It achieved a one star -- created a good film star, and a second-rate film stars will need the backing.
它成就了一个个明星——一部好电影造就明星，而一部二流影片则需要明星撑腰。
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。
But, he adds, at least he won't have to feel bad about persuading people to buy "second rate" cars he doesn't believe in any more.
可是，他自嘲道，至少他不会再为违心地劝说他人买下“二流”车而感到自责了，他早已不再信任这些车子。
It's much more important than having a second- rate impressionist painting on the wall.
这比在墙上挂一幅二流的印象派油画重要得多。
Second-rate artists will dig in the old mines, but only first-rate artists can get something out of the new mine.
第二流的艺术家将在旧宝藏中发掘，唯有第一流的艺术家才能由新宝藏中得到一些东西。
But the hiring of a second rate horror director has destroyed my remaining interest in this project.
但可恶的导演重复滥用创意已经让我对这个项目仅剩的兴趣都没有了。
Also, much of the vacant space is second rate, so demand for the newly built prime space may be strong.
此外，出现空置的大部分是二类写字楼，所以新建一流写字楼的市场需求可能还是强劲的。
Whatever the family structure, no child should be made to feel that his or her family is second-rate.
无论家庭结构如何，没有孩子应该被使得感到，他或她的家庭是不如人的。
There is a saying, first class companies create talent, second-rate second-rate talent created the company.
有道是，一流的人才造就一流的公司，二流的人才造就二流的公司。
But Indian customers do not want second-rate people with no other work to do.
但是印度的用户不希望与其它没有能力的二流人才合作。
For years, Europe's more-regulated model of capitalism has been maligned by many economists as a study in second-rate market economics.
多年以来，比美国监管更多的欧洲资本主义模式一直遭到许多经济学家诟病，被称为二流的市场经济。
always be first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
永远做一流的自己，不做二流的别人。~朱迪·嘉兰
Ruth Kelly, the education secretary, this week described vocational qualifications as "second-class and second-rate" .
教育大臣RuthKelly本周就将职业资格描述为“二等和二流的”。
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
要当自己的第一级版，而非某人的二级版。
That was the second rate hike this year and the fourth in less than six months.
这是年内第二次上调，不到六个月内的第四次。
S company is a large, second-rate, state-owned printing house with a history of decades of years.
S公司是一家有着几十年历史的国有大二型印刷企业，曾经有过辉煌的历史。
your ignorance is why you will always be an oaf , oaf . and now , your weakness is why you ' ll always be second rate . goodbye , cretin.
你的无知就是为什么你永远是一个笨家伙，笨家伙。而现在，你的弱点就是为什么你永远是二流水平。再见，白痴。
Second, the poor, of a sort: second-class, second-hand, second-rate level.
第二的，较差的：二等，二手货，二流水平。
Gone are the days when women were treated as second-rate citizens in any genuinely progressive country.
女性被视为二等公民的时代已经一去不复返了。
Yes, these clothes are second-hand. But if you're a young, hip fashionista, you certainly won't view them as second-rate.
是的，这里出售的是二手服装。但如果身为年轻的时尚潮人，你一定不会小觑它们。
As a warm-up gesture, he shot a second-rate speculator, Wang Chun-chieh, to scare others into paying off.
他先拿一个二流投机商王春杰开刀，把他枪毙了，杀鸡给猴看，威逼其他人乖乖交出钱来。
Patients no longer accept delays, second rate options, or poor service.
病人不再接受拖延、二流的选择或不良的服务。
Their art is already perishing , and being replaced by crude imitations of second-rate European pictures.
中国艺术正在遭受毁坏，取而代之的是拙劣的模仿欧洲的二流绘画。
