It may be that only the middling, manufactured sort of hit will fall by the wayside: the genuinely popular variety will remain just as powerful.

或许只有那些质量一般、胡编乱造的所谓“热销作品”才会无法长久立足，而真正受欢迎的作品仍将一如既往地强势。

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The "middling sort" bought goods and services because they wanted to follow fashions set by the rich.

“中产阶级”购买优质商品和服务，是因为他们想追随由富人建立的消费时尚。

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It may be that only the middling, manufactured sort of hit will fall by the wayside: the genuinely popular variety will remain just as powerful.

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No amount of gratuitous swag would have caused me to enjoy the game more than in a very middling sort of way.

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Those who, on inquiry, admit that their health and fortunes are fair-to-middling navigate carefully between the twin dangers of boastfulness and curmudgeonliness, while gesturing in a chin-up sort of way towards the possibility of future improvement.

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