- 1中量級（拳擊選手，上限 72.58 公斤／160 磅）；引申指「中等份量、中等地位」的人或物
In boxing, a fighter in the weight class up to 72.58 kg (160 pounds) — heavier than a , lighter than a light heavyweight. Boxers are put into classes by weight so that fights are fair, and 'middleweight' is one of the most famous of these, the class of many great champions. The word is used as a noun ('he turned professional as a middleweight') and in front of another noun ('the middleweight title', 'a middleweight contest'). The same class names are used in other fighting and lifting sports, though the exact differ from sport to sport, so the number is not fixed everywhere. Outside sport, people use it to mean something of middle size, middle power or middle importance — 'a middleweight laptop', 'a middleweight player in the industry'. That use is informal and usually a little , meaning 'good but not top'. Note it is not simply a person of average weight: a middleweight boxer is a trained athlete, and calling an ordinary person a middleweight would only make sense as a joke.
組成middle (中間) + weight (重量)，就是「中間的重量等級」。
同家族的字
- heavyweightsame '-weight' class pattern — the heaviest fighters
- welterweightsame '-weight' class pattern — the class just below
- lightweightsame '-weight' class pattern — and also means 'not important'
- weightthe same 'weight' — how heavy something is
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
middleweightnoun
- 1
A weight class in professional boxing between light middleweight or welterweight and super middleweight or cruiserweight; a similar division in wrestling and other sports
- 2
A boxer who fights in this division; a similar wrestler etc
- 3
A class in between heavy and light.
- This would give the U.S. Army five parachute-capable brigades, or two "middleweight" infantry brigades, or six light infantry brigades, or six airmobile brigades in only two multicapable divisions.
- In Ukraine, jaeger brigades are middleweight infantry—neither as light as territorial brigades, which generally lack tracked vehicles, nor as heavy as tank or mechanized brigades with their hundreds of tanks and fighting vehicles.
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businessAn employee ranking anywhere between junior and senior.
- And it's interesting because in a way they're much more of a design company, and they've got their juniors and their seniors and their middleweights and all this stuff.
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