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average на английском языке:

1. mediocre


The acting in the film was described as mediocre.
I've read mediocre book.
I thought the book was pretty mediocre.
a mediocre actor
Your composition was rather mediocre - you certainly could do better.
She always complains about how mediocre her life is.
The film's plot is predictable and the acting is mediocre.
the movie was mediocre
I celebrated Bastille day with a baguette, Roquefort and a glass of mediocre French red.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

2. typical


Typical Japanese babies sleep with their mother after coming home from hospital.
typical scholl
You can search words, and get translations. But it's not exactly a typical dictionary.
A typical nurse will do such things as helping with a urinal bottle, and shaving in preparation for surgery!
For him a doctor to get lung cancer from smoking - it's a typical case of 'Do as I say not as I do.'
But it's a typical savannah country, and we enjoy cooler temperatures.
The typical middle-class American baby comes home from the hospital to sleep in his own bed in his own room.
Uh-oh, here comes another lecture. How typical. This guy has something to say about everything.
My friend gave a me typical reaction after I scared him.
Even now, the typical worker's whole life is still bound up with the company he works for.
I have read your letter closely, and your situation seems very typical and foreseeable in a relationship.
I want you two to simulate a typical household problem.Go.
This sort of hot and spicy food is very typical of the food in the south of the country. (typical of)
A typical image of an old person is someone with a walking stick waiting at a bus stop.
1. So it's not a typical case. / 2. It looks like a typical case of domestic violence. / 3. Like you said, typical big brother. / 4. It's so typical of you, Milla.

3. neither very good or very bad



4. the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number of amounts



5. having qualities that are typical of most people



6. median


We need to focus on the median result.
Averages come in three flavors: mean, median, and mode.

7. on


It's so hot that you could cook an egg on the hood of a car.
If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.
on the table
I think it's dangerous to climb a mountain on a day when it's stormy.
We pigged out on pizza and chicken at lunchtime.
The background check on Tom turned up suspiciously little.
Tom boiled some eggs on the rocket stove that he had just built.
Tom lives on a farm with his wife, Mary, not too far from Boston.
You walk on and I'll catch up with you later.
He knows that his critics are waiting to pounce on any slip that he makes.
People often lie about what they did on the weekend, so their friends won't realize how boring they really are.
Even though there were many cookies on the dish, I only ate three.
A bust of Aristotle stands on a pedestal in the entryway.
If it's okay for her to buy a knife, then why on earth can't I?
On Friday evenings, a group of us with spouses working overseas meet at Chuck's Bar and Grill.

8. average


Most of the plain, simple, everyday things he desires can be secured by people of average means.
Thomas A. Edison so loves his work that he sleeps an average of less than four hours of each twenty-four.
Tom isn't your average guy. He doesn't like things most guys like and he doesn't like to do things most men enjoy doing.
on average
Compared to many other countries, the average intake of trans-fats per person in Japan is low and it is hypothesized that it does not have a strong impact on health.
When an average person sends a message in a bottle, it's just a childish fantasy. When Christopher Columbus sends a message in a bottle, the fate of an entire country is at stake.
The average man fails not because he lacks ability, but because he lacks ability to concentrate.
In particular, it is customary for actual examples of use of the harmonic mean to generally cover "average speed," and explain no further than that.
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes, and wishes he was certain.
Because an average person doesn't need 3D, or high whatchacallit speeds.
The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him.
You can tell from the jargon alone that these instructions were written for experienced builders and not the average consumer.
English studies on the use of cell phones by young people show truly worrying situations, in which a person between the ages of six and twenty sends an average of twenty nine messages, receives fifteen, and makes nine calls each day.
I did a lot of analysis on, uh, the supply and demand in the market, and, uh, we looked at a lot of charts, like uh, the moving averages of the last 200 days, and then 40 days, and then we looked at the history of the, um, the gold mining,

9. plain


I think a plain dress will look more elegant than a patterned one.
Soba is made of buckwheat flour, and udon and kishimen are made of plain wheat flour.
Most of the plain, simple, everyday things he desires can be secured by people of average means.
Plenty of stalls selling fried rattlesnake, rattlesnake kebabs, barbecued rattler, or just plain baked rattlesnake.
plain furnishing
Plain English is a shortcut to the goal of language learning.
Your opinion is off the mark. That's plain to anyone.
The spacious plain spread as far as the eye can see, dotted with groves here and there.
A nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain nudnik.
At no time does the plain look so perfect as in early autumn.
I think putting thieves to death is not lawful; and it is plain and obvious that it is absurd and of ill consequence to the commonwealth that a thief and a murderer should be equally punished.
Ms. Yamada translated the fascinating fairy tale into plain Japanese.
Stracciatella ice-cream is nothing but a plain ice-cream with chocolate chips.
Please ensure you always include a link-back in your replies. ">>" in plain ASCII + number (e.g. >>1).
Her clothes were old and dirty, and she wore a tight, plain cap over her beautiful blonde hair.

Английский слово "average«(plain) встречается в наборах:

FCE - describing people: appearance

10. between the biggest and the smallest



11. medium


culture medium/growing medium
We have large, medium, and small. What size do you want?
He's medium height.
More and more people are rushing to make use of the interactive nature of the medium.
Commercial television is an effective medium for advertising.
Man is not the enemy of man but through the medium of a false system of government.
Sear on each side over medium heat for 4 - 5 minutes.
Condillac, with sensationalism, revolutionised the concept of mind, making language and gesture prior to ideas, shattering Locke's conception of language as a mere passive medium.
It is difficult to find a happy medium between city and countryside.
And even outside these nations, English is perhaps more widely used as a medium of international communication than any other language.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Put the lid on and start at high flame, when it boils set to medium flame and boil for about seven minutes.
Can you give me the medium size of it?
One medium steak and fries, please.
Heat sesame oil in the pan on a medium flame, add the chicken meat, the garlic and fry, when the colour changes pour in the Chinese soup, add the Chinese cabbage and boil.

12. ordinary


an ordinary day
In hard times like this, no ordinary effort can get our company out of the red.
A special resolution to be proposed at a general meeting may be amended by ordinary resolution.
While long-term credit banks are authorized by law to issue bonds to raise fund, they are not allowed to take deposits the way ordinary banks are.
The doctors say the dying man should have kicked the bucket hours ago, were he an ordinary man, but he is still defying death.
Essentially it's a one-to-one match, but the content of that match is a level so high as to be unthinkable to an ordinary person.
Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.
Women who, at first glance, appear to be completely ordinary also don't seem to be in that much of a rush to get married.
To take an express train, we have to get an express ticket in addition to an ordinary ticket.
Having misconceptions of what mathematics is is even more ordinary than not knowing how to spell my name.
“An ordinary common or garden rat like this
ordinary meeting, proceedings
I'm just ordinary person with a normal life - but I'm quite happy.
During the week these men have ordinary jobs and they’re model citizens.
I think that now there is far too much information for an ordinary consumer in Europe. Look, the ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of hearing about microcredit.

13. constituting the result obtained by adding together several amounts and then dividing this total by the number of amounts



Английский слово "average«(constituting the result obtained by adding together several amounts and then dividing this total by the number of amounts) встречается в наборах:

Unit 3 listening

14. a number that represents a value in the middle of a set of values



15. middling


The football team is never the worst or best in its league; its position is always middling.

Английский слово "average«(middling) встречается в наборах:

C1 Advanced (All That Jazz)

16. mean


He is mean.
If you raise an eyebrow, it can mean "I want to have sex with you", but also "I find that what you just said is completely idiotic."
When my doctor told me to eat more vegetables, he didn't mean French fries.
The plants' mean height was 10,3 centimetres but some of them were as high as 15 centimetres.
He’s not very nice. He can be quite mean.
I mean it's just another manifestation of internet addiction really.
They don't use 'celeb' to mean 'rich man' over there. By which I determine that you are Japanese.
Although it's "Mac OS X", that doesn't mean that the Mac OS code itself has been upgraded to a new version.
The Waterfront's success could mean that other cities soon follow, creating areas that offer people a new kind of city living, with all the benefits and none of the stress, noise and pollution of crowded centres.
Did you know that when you say "America", it can mean the USA or the continent of both Americas?
It's written abazure (bitch). Surely this must mean a slut?
What do we mean by "global optimization"? It's kind of like if I gave you a pair of binoculars and told you to find me the highest mountain in the world, using only your eyes.
Being "really busy" does not mean running around and acting like you don't have time for anyone or anything.
In particular, it is customary for actual examples of use of the harmonic mean to generally cover "average speed," and explain no further than that.