fourth-rate

基本解释

The fourth-rate wife gossips and makes trouble.
劣等太太，搬是弄非，制造事耑。
"North Korea cannot shift its focus from military to economic affairs without be- coming a fourth-rate South Korea, " he says.
“朝鮮若將注意力從軍事轉曏經濟事務，衹能淪爲一個四流的韓國，”他說。
The first-class enterprise sells brand, second-class enterprise sells techniques, third-class enterprise sells products, enterprise sells fourth-rate coolie.
一流企業賣品牌，二流企業賣技術，三流的企業賣産品，四流企業賣苦力。
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But senior government researcher Aya Abe says Japan has the fourth-highest rate of poverty among developed countries.

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.
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South Africa can thus offer low-cost electrical power, at the fourth-cheapest rate in the world.
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