fourth-rate

基本解释

• adj.没有什么价值的

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• The fourth-rate wife gossips and makes trouble.
  劣等太太，搬是弄非，制造事端。
• "North Korea cannot shift its focus from military to economic affairs without be- coming a fourth-rate South Korea, " he says.
  “朝鲜若将注意力从军事转向经济事务，只能沦为一个四流的韩国，”他说。
• The first-class enterprise sells brand, second-class enterprise sells techniques, third-class enterprise sells products, enterprise sells fourth-rate coolie.
  一流企业卖品牌，二流企业卖技术，三流的企业卖产品，四流企业卖苦力。
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原声例句

• But senior government researcher Aya Abe says Japan has the fourth-highest rate of poverty among developed countries.

权威例句

• There is no question that professors today have historically light teaching loads that often allow them to write third-rate papers, of fourth-rate importance, for fifth-rate journals that almost nobody reads.
  FORBES: Government Should Exit Higher Ed
• South Africa can thus offer low-cost electrical power, at the fourth-cheapest rate in the world.
  FORBES: Hitting The Gas
• The Fed has unemployment rising to a 4.75%-5% fourth-quarter average rate from the current 4.6%.
  FORBES: Hike More, Eat Less