second rate

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。