I was a mediocre ball player. Sometimes I could be good.

我是一个平庸的球员。有时候我可以做个好选手。

So we read to experience the mediocre and the outright rotten; such experience helps us to recognize those things when they begin to creep into our own work, and to steer clear of them.

因此我们阅读、体会那些平庸之作，以及那些绝对的烂，的经验会帮助我们，当些东西悄然出现在自已作品中的时候我们能有所识别，免得写成那。

No amount of genius can stop your dumb mediocre vacuous roots from digging into everything and everyone around you and draining them of any ability to fend you off.

再天才的人也无法阻止愚蠢、平庸、空虚的根伸向身边的一切人与物，把他们抵御的能力吸个一干二净。

For your information, I was only considered mediocre among my peers.

我希望知道，在中国学生里，我只能算作资质平庸。

And you're not the sort of person who's mediocre.

而可不是那种平庸的人。

Can I remind you, you have one child who's not mediocre?

提醒一下 有个孩子是读天才哦？

He was in a pitiable condition, very weak, sharing the body of a mediocre wizard.

他当时的处境很可怜，非常虚弱，跟一个平庸的巫师共用一具身体。

Now, this is trade notorious for its mediocre pay and poor working conditions.

可以显而易见地看到他薪水低廉，工作环境恶劣。

What's the difference between a good podcast, a mediocre podcast, and a bad podcast?

好的播客、平庸的播客和糟糕的播客之间有何区别？

" Yet you confide much more in a boy who is incapable of Occlumency, whose magic is mediocre, and who has a direct connection into the Dark Lord's mind! "

“可是信赖一个连大脑封闭术都不会的小男孩，他的魔法很平庸，而且可以直接连接黑魔王的思想！”

They're not mediocre cookies once you bake 'em, but you are baking everything together.

只要是烤了，它们就不是平庸的饼干，但是会把所有的东西都烤在一起。

Laszlo was only a mediocre player, and Klara had demonstrated no chess ability at all.

拉斯洛只是个平庸的棋手，而克拉拉则从未展现出任何棋艺天赋。

So, the term boilerplate can mean ordinary, mediocre writing.

因此，boilerplate一词可以表示普通的、平庸的文章。

So you can turn kind of a mediocre product into really quite a nutritious product.

所以，我们可以将普通的食物变为有营养的食物。

And your graviton research is mediocre at best!

关于引力子的研究顶多算平庸！

Mediocre writers might rely on AI to produce content, passing it off as their own, which could blur the line between human and machine creativity.

平庸作家可能依赖AI生产内容并冒充原创，将模糊人类与机器创作的界限。

And the whole thing happens interactively, almost in real time, but if we consider the hardware improvement since this paper was published, it is safe to say that today it runs in real time even on a mediocre computer.

整个过程几乎在实时交互式地发生，但如果我们考虑自从论文发表以来的硬件改进，可以肯定的是，即使在一台普通的电脑上，它也能实时运行。

(There is a whole genre of jokes about what MBA — Master of Business Administration — really stands for: " Mediocre But Arrogant" , " Management by Accident" , " More Bad Advice" , " Master Bullshit Artist" and so on. )

（关于 MBA——工商管理硕士——真正代表什么，有一大堆的笑话：“平庸但是傲慢”（Mediocre But Arrogant）、“意外管理”（Management by Accident）、“多馊主意”（More Bad Advice）、“狗屁大佬”（Master Bullshit Artist）等等。

Fusion usually means the best of two things put together making a mediocre combination but on this lunch, I was particularly surprised by the combination of ingredients.

融合通常是指将两种东西的精华结合在一起，做出一个平庸的组合，但顿午餐中，我对食材的组合特别惊讶。

" We are contained and will continue to be contained in an autonomy-minus situation, governed militarily by Israelis, controlled by the powers of the West and keeping mediocre people in offices like municipality arrangements, " he added.

“我们在自治程度最低的时候受到以色列军事手段的制约，以后还要受到制约，被西方大国控制，像直辖市管理那将平庸者留下。”