| 释义 |
so-soˈso-so ●●○ adjective, adverb spoken   - "How are you feeling?" "Oh, so-so."
- a so-so movie
- The hotel was in a lovely location, but the facilities were only so-so.
not very bad, but not very good► not very good especially spoken not good - use this when you are disappointed because you were expecting something better: · "What was the movie like?" "It was OK but the ending wasn't very good."· He's been learning English for five years, but his pronunciation isn't very good. ► mediocre something that is mediocre is of a lower standard than it should be, and does not show much quality or skill: · The team gave another mediocre performance last night.· Tourists crowd the gift shops to buy mediocre products at high prices. ► nothing special spoken not very bad, but not especially good: · "Was the food good?" "It was okay, but nothing special."· The town's nice, but the beach is nothing special. ► all right/OK, but ... spoken say this when you think that something is good in some ways but there are some bad parts of it too: · My grades were OK, but I thought I should have gotten an 'A' in chemistry.· The game was all right, but it wasn't worth what I paid to watch it. ► so-so informal not very good, but not very bad either: · "How is your meal?'' "So-so.''· The hotel was in a lovely location, but the facilities were only so-so. ► second rate/third rate not as good as other things of the same kind: · People are not willing to pay a lot of money for second-rate works of art.· All they could afford was a room in a second-rate hotel about a mile from the beach. ► not be up to scratch especially British something that is not up to scratch , is not as good as it should be: · The hotels and transport system in this city are not up to scratch at the moment. ► patchy a performance, piece of work etc that is patchy is good in some parts, but bad in others and in general is not good: · The film is patchy, despite one or two good performances.· Many department stores reported patchy sales over Christmas. ► lacklustre British /lackluster American: lacklustre performance not very bad, but not as good as was expected: · The corporation's profits increased dramatically this year, after a rather lacklustre performance last year. neither very good nor very bad SYN average:  ‘How was the party?’ ‘Oh, so-so.’ |