mediocrity

mediocrity音标

英 [ˌmi:diˈɒkrəti]

美 [ˌmi:diˈɑ:krəti]

mediocrity基本释义

n.平常；平庸之才

mediocrity用法及例句

noun

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

Synonym: averageness

2. a person of second-rate ability or value

e.g. a team of aging second-ratersshone among the mediocrities who surrounded him

Synonym: second-rater

1. 平庸;平凡;普通If you refer to the mediocrity ofsomething, you mean that it is of average quality but you think it should be better.

e.g. ...the mediocrity of most contemporary literature...大多数当代文学作品的平庸e.g. Fashion today is sloppy mediocrity.如今的时尚品位低下，平庸无奇。

2. 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.

e.g. 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. 平常：mediocre 平凡的 | mediocrity 平常 | meditate on 沉思

2. 平庸之才：313. mediator: 调停者,仲裁人.| 314. mediocrity: 平庸之才.| 315. mendicant: 乞丐.

There are certain things..beside which even distinguished, searching, passionate novels pale to mediocrity.

出自：D. Parker

近义词

临近词

unevenness不平坦

averagenessaverage的名词形式...

patchiness补缀的性质

commonplace平凡的

second-rater二流货

poorness贫穷

weakness软弱

nothing没有什么

mediocre

Mediocrity is contagious.

meditate

mediocrity groups

相关列句

I think of myself as a mediocre writer. I do not come by my mediocrity naturally.(我自以为算得上是个中流的写手，尽管如此，我也绝非天生就到了这个水平。)

Brendan pointed out the price of settling for mediocrity, even in a big organization.(布兰登指出了甘于平庸的代价，即便大公司也不能避免。)

Banish mediocrity and seek out the work you're passionate about.(放弃那份平庸，去追求你热爱的工作吧。)

That fix their seats in mediocrity.(把他们的位置固定在平庸中。)

Arsene Wenger has always followed his own path, but he is leading Arsenal into mediocrity.(温格总是沿循自己的道路，但他却率领阿森纳走向平庸。)

'Employees may perceive,' he writes, 'that mediocrity is tolerated.'(他写道，员工可能会认为平庸是可以容忍的。)

Mediocrity through modularity.(模块化导致平庸。)

We can be ordinary, but can not mediocrity.(我们可以平凡，但绝不可以平庸。)

Love must stay in the shade of trivialism and mediocrity.(爱必存在于琐屑和平庸阴影之下。)

Major league team owners, on the other hand, are rewarded for mediocrity.(但另一方面，大联盟球队业主却因其平庸而得到回报。)