mediocrity
mediocrity 英 [ˌmi:diˈɒkrəti] 美 [ˌmidiˈɑkrəti]
n. 平庸之才；平常
名词复数:mediocrities
- The noun mediocrity means the quality of being average or ordinary. You can't be great at everything — in some areas, we all fall into mediocrity.
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- n. 平庸之才；平常
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1. Are you destined for mediocrity?
自己注定平庸一生吗？
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2. 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。
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3. Until that happens, you will wallow in mediocrity.
等到那个时候，你将会变得平庸。
- mediocrity (n.) early 15c., "moderation; intermediate state or amount," from Middle French médiocrité and directly from Latin mediocritatem (nominative mediocritas) "a middle state, middling condition, medium," from mediocris (see mediocre). Neutral at first; disparaging sense began to predominate from late 16c. The meaning "person of mediocre abilities or attainments" is from 1690s. Before the tinge of disparagement crept in, another name for the Golden Mean was golden mediocrity.
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