We who are so aware of excellence end up the least able to tolerate mediocrity, which in this case, happens to be our own.

我们患得患失，其实最后只是折磨看似平庸自己。

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity.

现实是通往平庸最道路。

Exams rank different levels of mediocrity, that's all.

考试把平庸者分为了不同等级 仅此而已。

And to settle for mediocrity is...is...it's frankly, you know, a sign of self-loathing and substandard work ethics.

而甘于平庸就是，就是… 坦白说，就是不自爱不够格工作态度。

Hours of mediocrity can be reduced to five or six perfect images.

数小时平淡镜头被缩短成五、六张完美画面。

So you compensated for mediocrity by being large.

所以你大块头弥补了你平庸。

They face constant pressure to excel at everything they do with no room for failure or mediocrity.

他们面临着不断压力，在每一件事上都出类拔萃，没有失败或平庸余地。

Yet mediocrity is no longer enough to justify a dismissal.

然而，平庸不再足以成为解雇理由。

Mr Hastings excessively admires two German field-marshals: Gerd von Rundstedt and Eric von Manstein, whereas only Bill Slim and George Patton rise above the general mediocrity of Allied field commanders.

马克斯·哈斯丁极为敬重两位德国陆军元帅：格特·冯·伦德施泰特（Gerd von Rundstedt）和埃里克·冯·曼施坦因（Eric von Manstein），相比之下他认为盟军将领中却只有比尔·斯里姆（Bill Slim）和乔治·巴顿（George Patton）非泛泛之辈。

She could not admit at once that she might have overestimated Wildeve, for to perceive his mediocrity now was to admit her own great folly heretofore.

她不能够马上就承认她也许看高了韦狄，因为现在察觉出他平庸，就意味着承认她过去极大愚蠢。

Most of our problems deserve a metabolic rate that honors the frustration and the mediocrity and the real pain of the status quo for some of you.

我们大部分问题有代谢速率，是能向各位对现状挫折、平庸，及真实痛苦表示敬意代谢速率。

He accused it of “mediocrity, sloppiness, and whatever the opposite of innovative is.”

他指责它“平庸、马虎，以及任何与创新相反层面”。

And, in doing so, we make way for mediocrity.

这样，我们就为平庸让了路了。

It is their goal to bring everyone down to their level of mediocrity.

他们目标是把每个人都降低到同他们一样平庸水平。

In my case, I wanted my life to be great and I feared boredom and mediocrity more than I feared failure.

对我来说，我曾希望我过最好生活，我害怕平庸 害怕无聊胜过害怕失败。

" I really do not care to sit in the high places, " I objected. " I find life precarious enough in my present humble situation. I have no experience. Mediocrity, you see, has its compensations" .

" 坐这么高位子我还真不愿意。" 我反对了，" 我发现在我目前低矮座位上生命已经够危险了。 我没有经验。 中不溜也是有好处，你看。"

Emma, opposite, watched him; she did not share his humiliation; she felt another—that of having supposed such a man was worth anything. As if twenty times already she had not sufficiently perceived his mediocrity.

艾玛坐在对面瞧着他。她并不分担他耻辱，她感到丢脸是，她怎么能想象一个这样人，会做出什么有价值事来， 难道她看了二十回，还看不出他庸碌无能吗！

Our purpose is to overcome the distance between beast and overman: a dangerous crossing that transcends the mediocrity and conformity in which the masses dwell.

我们目是克服野兽和超人之间距离：一个超越大众所居住平庸和从众危险十字路口。

These outbursts represent a real departure, not only from the anodyne mediocrity of other bots, but also perhaps more significantly from the dystopia we have grown accustomed to dreading.

这些过激言语代表了一种真正背离，不仅背离了其他机器人人畜无害平庸，而且可能更重是，它背离了我们已经习惯了去感到恐惧那个反乌托邦。

Lucky flukes might arise from time to time, but they would soon vanish under the general impulse to bring everything back to a stable mediocrity.

在进化过程中，特异现象时有发生但是它们很快就会消失，因为生物体总是倾向于使一切都回归于平。