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• third rate

形容詞

third-rate (not comparable)

1. (UK, military, nautical, historical) 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.
2. (idiomatic) Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.

   Synonyms: bad, lousy, third-class; see also Thesaurus:low-quality

   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 96:

     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.

   • 2022 December 14, Barry Doe, “NRT review meets Christmas deadlines”, in RAIL, number 972, page 40:

     I consider it to now be a third-rate service run without any excuses being offered.

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名詞

third-rate (plural third-rates)

1. (UK, military, nautical, historical) A third-rate ship of the line.

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• two-decker