刻度上停在中間
這一家把滑桿讀成「程度」：東西有多好、多辣、多貴，都停在中間格。
r · C2
Fairly, but not very. You put it in front of an adjective or an adverb to place something in the middle of a scale: clearly more than a little, and clearly less than very.
還算；不到很
核心畫面
One way to picture 'moderately': a slider that could be pushed all the way to the end, held on purpose somewhere in the middle. Nothing is switched off, and nothing is pushed to the limit. Whatever the slider measures — how much you eat, how spicy the soup is, how much a hotel costs — the word says the value sits between the two ends, and that the middle is where it was meant to stay.
moderately 的畫面可以想成一支可以推到底的滑桿，被刻意停在中間。沒有關掉，也沒有推到滿。不管這支滑桿量的是…更多收起
moderately 的畫面可以想成一支可以推到底的滑桿，被刻意停在中間。沒有關掉，也沒有推到滿。不管這支滑桿量的是吃多少、湯多辣、旅館多貴，這個詞都在說：值落在兩端之間，而且是被穩穩放在那裡的。From the word’s history
Wiktionary derives 'moderately' from Middle English, equal to 'moderate' + '-ly'. 'Moderate' already carries the idea of staying inside limits, and the '-ly' ending turns that idea into a description of how much, or of how something is done.
Wiktionary 說 moderately 來自中古英語，等於 moderate 加上 -ly。moderate 本身帶著「留在合理範圍、不走極端」，加上 -ly 之後，那個「中間」就被拿來描述程度，或描述一件事怎麼做。
Wiktionary via kaikki (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1115476612:9235): "From Middle English moderately... equivalent to moderate + -ly."
Two branches
做事的手收著
這一家把滑桿交到人手上：不是東西剛好在中間，是人把它壓在中間。
r · C2
In a way that stays inside sensible limits and does not go too far — doing something, but not too much of it, and not in an extreme way.
適度地；不過度