One recipient of an online master's degree commented that his online education experience was "mediocre at best" due to the lack of feedback and interaction with fellow students.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 2002年9月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT191012", "2425023"
このような人々は、「不可触民」またはダリットと呼ばれ、地域社会から二流市民として扱われている。
These people are the so called "untouchables" or the dalits who are treated as second class citizens by the community members.〔【出典】Global Voices Online◆【英文】Bhumika Ghimire ◆【和訳】Mariko Yagi ◆【License】CC BY 3.0 〕
せいぜい二流の~
second-rate ~ at best
それは、結末がありきたりな二流映画だった。
It was a mediocre film with a predictable ending.
でも、私はここでは二流市民としても値しないのだ。
But here I do not even qualify as a second-class resident.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 1996年11月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT121052", "2271288"
India's minister for overseas affairs, Valajay Ravi, has labeled Victoria's Police Commissioner Simon Overland a "petty officer" for saying Australia is safer than India and for criticizing the Indian media's coverage of allegedly racist attacks."VOA-T223", "2369214"
奇異なことに~がいかに二流の人間を量産しているかを示す
show how ~ paradoxically churns out mediocre people
Schools, shops, West End theatres, fringe theatres, royal parks, galleries, exhibition halls surprisingly even a church, all played host one way or another.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 2002年7月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT189032", "2440289"
彼の財政状況により二流の蒸留酒業者や醸造酒業者と取引するよりしかたなかったからだ。
because his financial condition had constrained him to tie himself to second-class distillers and brewers.〔【出典】日英対訳文・対応付けデータ(独立行政法人情報通信研究機構)〕"_GRACE2", "2589634"
Many people claim that Japan is economically first-rate, but politically second-rate, but if there were no criticisms directed toward Japan, I don't think we would have seen such a quick realization of policies that seek for richness in our lives, such as the stability of the cost of living as a result of a steep reduction in tariffs.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 1992年9月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT071054", "2399257"