mediocrity

1 Had Henley continued on its existing path, it would have mediocrity, he says.

博恩斯表示,如果亨利管理学院继续现有路线, 将会流于平庸.

2 His achievement, especially when one considers the mediocrity into which French music had declined in the years before his birth, was sui generis miraculous.

3 With that, the team embarks on a journey out of mediocrity.

4 A similar fate of smug, too wacky mediocrity seemed inevitable.

5 Ray Mercer’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” had its own brand of mediocrity.

6 "Seeing people as statistics I think leads into the swamp of mediocrity and despond."

7 After all, the alternative is mid table mediocrity and watching others challenge for the precious trophies.

究竟, 另一选择是平庸地处于联赛榜中游,并看着其他人挑战那些贵重的锦标.

8 And no one does anyone any good rewarding mediocrity out of principle.

9 The gender ratio is that of a rooster and his hens, and in this setup, Mr. Siddi’s recessive mediocrity is all the more glaring.

10 They promise perfection and deliver mediocrity.

他们承诺的是完美，而实现的是平庸。

11 He could be too impatient, too demanding; he feels that the industry is based on mediocrity, and on the assumption that the audience is stupid and therefore can’t cope with anything complex.

12 That's why experienced mediocrity almost always trumps talent every time.

这就是为何老练的平庸几乎每每胜过才华.

13 The novel that contains him—a cataract of useless paperwork tumbling from a reservoir of pique—skewers, mostly cheerfully, the mediocrity and bickering it deems endemic to academia.

14 “But I think we’re drowning in mediocrity. I just try as hard as I can to raise the level of consciousness. It’s so hard to get people to see good films.”

15 Meanwhile, the work itself risks shifting, and faces the threat of hackdom, of mediocrity, of the compromises and the complacencies, the calculations and the self-deceptions, on which popularity and celebrity depend.

16 Reaching that “Space Chimps”/“Planet 51” level of good-looking mediocrity is an achievement.

17 As the series progressed, “it went off the rails,” he said, and ultimately “descended into complete mediocrity.”

18 So there seems to be a common argument directed at women that mediocrity and monogamy go hand in hand.

19 Rather than just shrugging at this concession to major label mediocrity.

20 The more democratised art becomes, Paterson – a poet, not coincidentally – goes on to argue in The Book of Shadows, the more we recognise in it our own mediocrity.

1 普通

standard general common regular regulation familiar routine plain ordinary trivial coarse mediocre medial vulgar undistinguished workaday generally generality fair to middling bog-standard simple average generic vanilla commonplace run-of-the-mill so-so middling unimpressive second-rate unspectacular quotidian garden-variety white-bread unexceptional ordinarily common or garden normal everyday mundane general-purpose unadventurous plebby severity mill-run ham-and-eggs run-of-the-mine any mean natural popular garden medium usual household honest universal moderate inferior prevalent prevailing lowly nomic indifferently prose run-of-mill common-garden run-of-mine common-or-garden-variety open local mass steam orthodox homely humdrum plebeian ornery unglamorous plain-vanilla rumdum common-or-garden commonality commonness vulgo from central casting

2 无足轻重的人

zero nobody lightweight cipher nonentity

3 凡人

stodger temporalty Everyman

4 平凡

run-of-mill even small common usual everyday ordinary pedestrian literal trivial mediocre prose mundane commonplace barren indifferent lowly uneventful uninspired banal run-of-the-mill prosaic matter-of-fact featureless humdrum second-rate homespun quotidian bread-and-butter C undistinguished toneless workaday characterless bathetic singsong platitudinous prosy bromidic noteless common-or-garden mundanely banally trivialism platitude banality triviality mundanity commonness homeliness bathos stodginess prosiness trivialize ten a penny two a penny old hat indifference stock cheap thick homemade received trite middling hackneyed ornery twopenny twice-told Pedestrianism unattractive unremarkable unexciting unromantic unmemorable platitudinarian character garden slick beaten unimportant earthbound garden-variety truistic ordinarily prosaism tameness prosaicism platitudinal half-pie waste routine vanilla unglamorous rumdum banausic commonality mediocritize from central casting common or garden be no great shakes

5 平凡的人

prosaist bromide

6 第二流

mediocre

7 庸人

Philistine stumblebum dipstick dipshit

8 平庸的人

bourgeois

9 平庸

mean predictable mediocre small-time plebeian bathetic middlebrow indifferently bog standard bourgeois undistinguished talentless characterless indifference ordinary indifferent banal prosaic banality common moderate inferior humdrum platitude vulgarity vulgarize picayune half-pie low average commercial pedestrian Philistine second-rate hackneyed Biedermeier copybook not so hot nondescript plain unremarkable unimpressive underwhelming cheap plebby literal bromidic bush-league commonplace frantic lowly minor-league cotton-picking vanilla

10 庸才

also-ran

11 平常

common average regular typical routine ordinary mediocre unremarkable homespun garden-variety unexceptional normally ordinarily common or garden