second-rate

adj.

1. 二流的；平庸的；普通的
   not very good or impressive
   1. a second-rate player
      平庸的运动员

1. ADJ-GRADED 二流的;二等的;劣质的
   If you describe something as second-rate, you mean that it is of poor quality.
   1. ...second-rate restaurants.
      二流餐馆
   2. ...another second-rate politician.
      另一名二流政客

1. 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。
2. A burst of energy, speed, etc of lesser quality than second-rate.
   迸发出的能量、速度等质量上比二等还要差的。
3. Our technology is strong, but American public schools are second-rate in math and science.
   我们的技术很强大，但是美国的公众学校在数学和科技上只属于二流水平。
4. 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。
5. That is why the television networks keep serving up old movies and second-rate variety programmes.
   这就是为什么电视台一直播送旧电影和二流杂耍等老一套节目的原因。
6. We bought it in a second-rate department store.
   我们在一家二流的百货店买下它的。
7. But adoption is not second-rate!
   可是，被收养的儿女绝非次等的！
8. As a director, he's second-rate at best.
   作为一名导演，他至多属于二流。
9. 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。
10. Contemptibly low in worth or account; second-rate. Passenger traffic has gone up by 20 per cent.
    微不足道的；二流的在价值或数量上低的；二流的客流量已增长百分之二十。
11. Maybe you got to settle for a second-rate job.
    或许你开始满足于一个二流的工作。
12. The problem is that your target market will probably equate low costs with poor quality and a second-rate brand.
    问题是你目标市场的客人们，或许会把低价产品等同于劣质产品和次等品牌。
13. Second-rate acting and a tediously familiar plot contrive to make this one of the dullest film releases this year.
    二流的表演和乏味，落俗套的剧情使这成为今年发行的最枯燥无味的电影之一。
14. His novels are very second-rate.
    他写的小说很不怎麽样。
15. She's just a second-rate hack.
    她只是个二流的记者。
16. The hysteresis of education let UK be the second-rate country politically and militarily in the world.
    英国在教育上的滞后也使英国在政治和军事上成了充当二流国家的角色。
17. He never aimed at mere effect, and had none of the little tricks and pretensions of second-rate reputations.
    他从不追求单纯的成功，毫无享有第二流声望的那种人的花俏与做作。
18. But don't get the idea that any place that is called a nursery school is wonderful, for some of them are second-rate and just use the name because it's popular.
    不要以为有个叫幼儿园的地方就好，因为它们之中有些是二流货色，使用那个名字只是因为它流行。
19. Of lesser quality than second-rate.
    质量上比二等还要差的。
20. 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。
21. 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。
22. Bill Clinton's school-to-work initiative, a nod to the apprenticeship system, was derided as second-rate education.
    比尔克林顿首创的“从学校到工作岗位”是向学徒制体系致意，当初被人耻笑为二流的教育体系。
23. 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。
24. Application of Dual Flow Rate ( No Build-up) Test Technique She is at best a second-rate singer.
    二流量（不关井）测试技术应用研究她充其量是个二流歌手。
25. In many countries and regions, women there continue to be regarded as second-rate citizens.
    许多国家和地区的妇女仍然被视为二等公民。
26. Yes, there are tens of thousands of places to buy second-rate pork buns and wontons in any town you might happen to be in, from Lima, Peru, to Lima, Ohio.
    诚然，在世界任何一个地方，从秘鲁首都利马市到美国俄亥俄州的利马市，你都可以找到中国餐馆，买到猪肉包子和馄饨这样的便宜小吃；
27. We keep our first-rate people to business, leaving the second-rate people to politics.
    我们把一流人才留下来经商，让二流人才到政界发展。
28. That book is only second-rate.
    那本书只是二流作品。
29. I think guilt is a second-rate emotion.
    我认为内疚是情感中的次等品。
30. But what is the good of turning out second-rate pictures?
    可是只是画出些二流作品究竟有什么好处呢？

adj

1. moderate to inferior in quality
   1. they improved the quality from mediocre to above average

   Synonym:    mediocre