We're ruling out excellence and imposing mediocrity because everything militates against excellence now.

我们正在排除卓越并强加平庸，因为现在一切都在反对卓越。

And is likely to be entwined with a range of problematic attractions that militate in key ways against our chances of growth and happiness, as adults.

并且很可能一系列有问题相互缠绕，这些在关键方面阻碍我们作为成年人成长和幸福机。

Militating against that theory is the narrator's admission that she can no longer picture her friend's face.

理论相悖是，叙述者承认她无法再描绘她朋友脸。

She felt that she had spoken as impressively as it was necessary to do, and that in using the superior word " militate" she had thrown a noble drapery over a mass of particulars which were still evident enough.

她觉得自己已经说得令人印象深刻，这是必要，而且在使用“军事化”这个高级词时，她在大量仍然很明显细节上蒙上一层高贵外衣。