mediocrity

英 [ˌmiːdiˈɒkrəti]

美 [ˌmiːdiˈɑːkrəti]

n.  平庸; 普通; 平常; 平庸之人; 碌碌无为者

复数：mediocrities　

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.19205 / COCA.16550

牛津词典

noun

• 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。
• 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

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 平庸;平凡;普通
  If you refer to themediocrityof 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。
• N-COUNT 庸人;平庸之辈
  If you refer to someone as amediocrity, 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。

英英释义

noun

• ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding
  Synonym:averageness
• 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

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• Fashion today is sloppy mediocrity.
  如今的时尚品位低下，平庸无奇。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• That fix their seats in mediocrity.
  把他们的位置固定在平庸中。