second-rate

UK historical not-comparable idiomatic

(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 80–98 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 700–750, and weighing approximately 2,200 tons burthen.

Japanese Meaning

（英国・軍事・海軍史の文脈で）ナポレオン時代のロイヤル・ネイビーにおける艦級の一つ。具体的には、80～98門を備えた三段の砲台を有し、700～750の乗員と約2,200トンのバース重量を持つ艦を指す。

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

提督は、その90門・三甲板の二等戦列艦に隊列での位置につくよう命じ、甲板に並んだ大砲と約700名の乗組員は戦闘の準備を整えていた。

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(idiomatic) Of mediocre quality; not first-rate.

‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles.

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