英:[ˌmiːdiˈəʊkə(r)]
美:[ˌmiːdiˈoʊkər]
英:[ˌmiːdiˈəʊkə(r)]
美:[ˌmiːdiˈoʊkər]
adj.
普通的
中等的
质量中等偏下的
me·di·o·cre
mi di o kr
Adjective
1. moderate to inferior in quality;
"they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"
"he would make a poor spy"
2. of no exceptional quality or ability;
"a novel of average merit"
"only a fair performance of the sonata"
"in fair health"
"the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"
"the performance was middling at best"
3. poor to middling in quality;
"there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"
1580年代,"中等程度或质量的,既不好也不坏",源自16世纪的法语 médiocre,源自拉丁语 mediocris "中等高度或状态的,适度的,普通的",比喻为"平庸的,卑劣的,低劣的",字面意思是"半山腰"。这来自于 medius "中间"(源自 PIE 词根 *medhyo- "中间")+ ocris "多刺的山"(与希腊语 okris "山峰,尖顶",威尔士语 ochr "角落,边界",拉丁语 acer "尖锐"同源; 源自 PIE 词根 *ak- "尖锐,上升(出)到一个点,刺穿")。
作为名词,"平庸的事物或人",1834年开始使用。中古英语有 mediokerli(副词)"平庸地"(15世纪早期)。
一般评分标准
中等的
borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, borrowed from Latin mediocris "of medium size, moderate, middling, commonplace," perhaps originally "halfway to the top," from medius "middle, central" + -ocris, adjective derivative from the base of Old Latin ocris "rugged mountain," going back to Indo-European *h2oḱ-r-i- "point, peak, edge" (whence also Umbrian ukar, ocar "citadel," Middle Irish ochair "edge, border," Welsh ochr, Greek ókris "top, point, corner"), derivative of *h2eḱ- "pointed" — more at mid >entry 1, edge >entry 1 Note: The base *h2oḱ-r-i- forms a pair with *h2eḱ-r- "sharp, pointed" (see acro-) and the two have been explained as part of an original "acrostatic" paradigm of a noun, with fixed stress on the root, o-vocalism in the direct cases and e-vocalism in the oblique cases, with Indo-European daughter languages generalizing one form or another. Note that Greek has both ókris, as above, and ákris "hilltop, mountain peak." Perhaps also belonging here is Sanskrit aśri- "corner, angle, edge" (see at acro-), where the vowel may be either *a or *o.
The first known use of mediocre was circa 1586
meditativeadjective
having the habit of meditating
meditationnoun
the act or an instance of meditating
meditationnoun
the act or an instance of meditating
meditateverb
to consider or think over carefully : contemplate
to spend time in quiet thinking : reflect
intend, plan
meditate a trip abroad
meditateverb
to consider or think over carefully : contemplate
to spend time in quiet thinking : reflect
intend, plan
meditate a trip abroad
mediocritynoun
the quality or state of being mediocre
a mediocre person
mediocreadjective
of medium or low quality : ordinary
a mediocre performance
1 Names scattered in a gossip column, authors, artists, actors and their kind, even the mediocre ones, as long as she had learnt of them in print.
2 No credible relationship develops between them, and their pretzeling remains a series of cute tricks too mediocre for the circus.
3 They improved the quality from mediocre to above average.
他们把质量从中等偏下水平提高到了平均水平以上.
4 Yahoo will end up with more mediocre employees.
5 A mediocre successor and a man not to be feared too greatly.
他不过是一个平平庸庸的继承人而已,一个不足以大惊小怪的人物.
6 To achieve this, the staff offered mediocre service; the rooms were kept clean, but not too clean, and the building’s lone elevator was almost always out of order.
7 She tried to get to know me and did a mediocre job of it.
8 Sitti gets hot tea—which she always complains about, but also drinks every last drop—and Dad and I share a plate of very mediocre cafeteria fries.
9 The hype has, at times, seemed far too overblown for a story that was verging on mediocre.
10 It was NOT worth the $13 for a mediocre pizza - and even though they don't take cash, there was still a considerable wait for the pizza to be ready.
11 Third, why is it that it looks rich wife mediocre?
第三, 为什么有些富豪的妻子看起来相貌平平?
12 “This is an exceptionally fine novel about a young girl whose mediocre parents don’t like her, precisely because she is an inconveniently exceptional human being,” The Times said in its 1973 review.
13 Any planet in mediocre zodiacal state intermediate between that of a benefic and a malefic.
任何黄道状态中庸的星体,其效用介于吉星与凶星之间.
14 “That makes you sound like a mediocre self-help book.”
15 Ms. Hawkins, a former financial journalist who was born in Zimbabwe and lives in London, had previously published romantic comedies under the pen name Amy Silver, with mediocre sales.
16 Trying to appear mediocre in front of the other tributes is the last bit of strategy I remember.
17 Wade, meanwhile, is still a mediocre jump shooter.
而韦德仍然是一个中距离跳投手。
18 They sensed that mediocre students like Roosevelt really did possess a set of virtues that needed to be protected and cherished.
19 Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence.
在智力平平的人身上,勤奋也能起到巨大的作用.
20 After 35 years and six increasingly mediocre movies, the “Predator” franchise has long since exhausted its ideas and probably its audience.
1 普通
bog-standard standard general simple common average ordinary generic unimpressive plebeian unexceptional regular regulation familiar routine plain trivial coarse medial vulgar undistinguished workaday generally mediocrity generality fair to middling normal everyday conventional vanilla humble commonplace homely unremarkable homey middling homespun quotidian communis commonly ordinarily run-of-the-mill so-so second-rate unspectacular garden-variety white-bread common or garden mundane general-purpose unadventurous plebby severity run-of-mill common-garden run-of-mine mill-run common-or-garden-variety mean open local natural popular garden mass household universal steam orthodox prevailing humdrum ornery unglamorous plain-vanilla nomic rumdum common-or-garden commonality commonness vulgo from central casting
2 平凡
run-of-mill even small common usual everyday ordinary pedestrian literal trivial 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 mediocrity platitude banality triviality mundanity commonness homeliness bathos stodginess prosiness trivialize ten a penny two a penny old hat stock cheap thick homemade received trite middling hackneyed ornery twopenny twice-told Pedestrianism unattractive unremarkable unexciting unromantic
3 普通的
bog-standard standard general simple common average ordinary generic unimpressive plebeian unexceptional regular regulation familiar routine plain trivial coarse medial vulgar undistinguished workaday fair to middling normal everyday conventional vanilla humble commonplace homely unremarkable homey middling homespun quotidian communis run-of-the-mill so-so second-rate unspectacular garden-variety white-bread common or garden mundane general-purpose unadventurous plebby run-of-mill common-garden run-of-mine mill-run common-or-garden-variety mean open local natural popular garden mass household universal steam orthodox prevailing humdrum ornery unglamorous plain-vanilla nomic rumdum common-or-garden from central casting
4 劣等
mean rotten shoddy crummy snide small-time two-bit crumby cockamamie inferiority meanness rinky-dink e bargain-counter under bad lower sad tin skinny cheesy lousy villainous lower-class third-class bargain-basement low-class E for the birds no class
6 无价值
refuse slim tin null trivial dusty bum insignificant vile naught trashy nought dross scummy pelting piddling fustian thriftless inconsequent draff chaffy small-beer indign pistareen nothing nothingness insignificance unworthiness wallpaperize nullify
7 平庸
mean predictable small-time plebeian bathetic middlebrow indifferently mediocrity bog standard bourgeois undistinguished talentless characterless ordinary indifferent banal prosaic indifference banality picayune half-pie low average commercial pedestrian Philistine second-rate hackneyed Biedermeier platitude copybook not so hot nondescript plain unremarkable unimpressive underwhelming cheap plebby literal bromidic bush-league commonplace frantic lowly minor-league cotton-picking vanilla
8 平常
common average regular typical routine ordinary unremarkable homespun garden-variety unexceptional normally ordinarily mediocrity common or garden
10 不太好的
11 平庸的
mean predictable small-time plebeian bathetic middlebrow bog standard bourgeois undistinguished talentless characterless average moderate suburban literal bland commonplace indifferent second-rate half-pie ordinary banal prosaic picayune low commercial pedestrian Philistine hackneyed Biedermeier copybook not so hot nondescript plain unremarkable unimpressive underwhelming cheap plebby bromidic bush-league frantic lowly minor-league cotton-picking
12 平常的
common average regular typical routine ordinary unremarkable homespun garden-variety unexceptional common or garden
13 中等
average middle fair medium secondary moderate indifferent tol-lol mean commercial middling moderation intermediate
14 第二流
15 平凡的
run-of-mill even small common usual everyday ordinary pedestrian literal trivial 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 ten a penny two a penny old hat plain unremarkable earthbound common or garden stock cheap thick homemade received trite middling hackneyed ornery twopenny twice-told unattractive unexciting unromantic
17 二流的
minor second-class minor-league second-rate B one-horse second-string small-fry middling second-drawer semiclassical
19 劣等的
mean rotten shoddy crummy snide small-time two-bit cockamamie rinky-dink bargain-counter under bad lower sad tin skinny cheesy lousy villainous lower-class third-class bargain-basement low-class for the birds no class
20 低劣
tinkerly low cheap weak crappy cheesy lamentable ornery schlock bargain-basement rinky-dink down commonly cheaply scurvily sorrily scurviness