mediocrity

noun

1. 平庸；普通；平常
   the quality of being average or not very good
   1. His acting career started brilliantly, then sank into mediocrity.
      他的演艺生涯开场时轰轰烈烈，然后就变得庸庸碌碌。
2. 平庸之人；碌碌无为者
   a person who is not very good at sth
   1. a brilliant leader, surrounded by mediocrities
      周围全是些庸才的杰出领导

1. N-UNCOUNT 平庸;平凡;普通
   If you refer to the mediocrity of something, you mean that it is of average quality but you think it should be better.
   1. ...the mediocrity of most contemporary literature...
      大多数当代文学作品的平庸
   2. Fashion today is sloppy mediocrity.
      如今的时尚品位低下，平庸无奇。
2. N-COUNT 庸人;平庸之辈
   If you refer to someone as a mediocrity, you think that they are not very good at what they do.
   1. Surrounded by mediocrities, he can seem a towering intellectual.
      在周围一群泛泛之辈的衬托之下，他就像一个鹤立鸡群的智者。

1. Fashion today is sloppy mediocrity.
   如今的时尚品位低下，平庸无奇。
2. Surrounded by mediocrities, he can seem a towering intellectual.
   在周围一群泛泛之辈的衬托之下，他就像一个鹤立鸡群的智者。
3. Groupthink, conformity and mediocrity.
   群体思维，整合和平庸。
4. Those are the things that make the difference between living a life of mediocrity or outrageous success.
   它们能让生活有平庸和成功的天壤之别。
5. Once you cease dreaming, soon you will also lose your energy and be back to mediocrity.
   一旦你停止梦想，你就会失去继续前行的力量，又变回一个平庸的人。
6. It's a life of mediocrity, and perhaps that mediocrity is the greatest sorrow of all.
   这是平庸的生活，也许平庸是最深重的悲伤。
7. I pray that we do not waste life, no longer accepted mediocrity.
   我祈愿我们不再虚度年华，不再甘于平庸。
8. You'll wind up a rich mediocrity.
   你最后会成为富有的庸才。
9. It's the difference between success and mediocrity.
   这就是成功和平凡的区别。
10. But there are concrete steps government must take now to reverse our slide into communications mediocrity.
    但现在政府必须？取具体步骤，以扭转我国通信滑向平庸。
11. I not longer felt hemmed in by mediocrity; I felt liberated.
    我不再感觉为平庸所困，而是觉得获得了自由。
12. I am ordinary, but I do not mediocrity.
    我平凡，但我并不平庸。
13. They have often raised a man from mediocrity to success.
    它们常常使一个平庸之辈迈向成功。
14. There are no excuses for mediocrity and you pay a very high price for a little safety in life.
    不要给做平庸找借口；你正为生活中一点点小安全付出了高昂的代价。
15. If excellence is a habit, then mediocrity is a habit.
    如果说优秀是一种习惯，那么平庸也是一种习惯。
16. Only last week we had further confirmation of the essential mediocrity of so much day-to-day management.
    最近，我们得到了进一步的证据，证明许多日常管理都十分平庸。
17. This low abject brood, That fix their seats in mediocrity, Become your servile minds;
    这卑贱的一伙，把他们的位置固定在平庸中，成了你的奴性的心灵；
18. Without enthusiasm I am doomed to a life if mediocrity but with it I can accomplish miracles.
    没有热情，我注定要在平庸中渡过一生；而有了热情，我将创造奇迹。
19. If it's mass-produced mediocrity you want then you are in the wrong place!
    如果是大规模生产的平庸你想你在错误的地方！
20. No one will be willing to mediocrity, but very few people to struggle.
    没有人会甘心平庸，但却很少人去奋斗。
21. He was dismayed by the mediocrity of the people working with him.
    他对与其共事者的平庸感到很失望。
22. As with anything in life, constrained, limited thinking leads to mediocrity.
    和生命中的任何事物一样，受压抑、受限制的思考导致了平庸。
23. Perhaps you will laugh at me, laugh at me from the mediocrity, but I did not, I'm just thinking, in a calm.
    或许你会嘲笑我，笑我自甘平庸，但是我没有，我只是在思考，在平静。
24. You can ordinary, but not mediocrity;
    你可以平凡，但不能平庸；
25. Alfred: do you know what lies at the bottom of the mainstream? Mediocrity.
    阿尔弗雷德：你知道在主流下面是什么吗？平庸之辈。
26. I am clearly warning against that, because what you get is liable to be mediocrity.
    我很清楚地对这种情况发出了警告，因为你得到的很可能是平庸之才。
27. That fix their seats in mediocrity.
    把他们的位置固定在平庸中。
28. Life of mediocrity I can not meet the requirements of their own, but can not bring me happiness!
    平庸的生活不能满足我对自己的要求，更不能带给我幸福！
29. But, we can all take a big step away from mediocrity by finding work we are passionate about.
    但是，我们大可以通过找到自己热爱的工作来摆脱平庸。
30. You have to aim for the stars, not mediocrity.
    你要期待的是明星，而不是平庸之辈。

noun

1. ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding

   Synonym:    averageness

2. a person of second-rate ability or value
   1. a team of aging second-raters
   2. shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him

   Synonym:    second-rater