third-rate

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A third-rate ship of the line. UK,historical
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 64–80 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 500–650, and weighing approximately 1,750 tons burthen. UK,historical,not-comparable
  2. Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate. idiomatic,not-comparable
    — He was smoking a cherry-wood pipe, and looked on the whole as if he had borrowed his outfit from the wardrobe of a third-rate dramatic company.

词形变化

third rate alternative third-rates plural third rate alternative
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