资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Middling \Mid"dling\, a.
   Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally
   distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre;
   ordinary. ``A town of but middling size.'' --Hallam.

         Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling
         circumstances of its inhabitants.        --Hawthorne.
   -- {Mid"dling*ly}, adv. -- {Mid"dling*ness}, n.