Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity.

现实是通往平庸最常见的道路。

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 you compensated for mediocrity by being large.

所以你的大块头弥补了你的平庸。

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。

One version describing a wealthy Mandarin's young daughter, running off with an ineligible suitor.

故事的其中一个版本描述了一场有钱官吏的小女儿和她的平庸追求者的私奔。

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

只要是你烤了，它们就不是平庸的饼干，但是你把所有的东西都烤在一起。

Their technique impressed him, but I fancy that he thought their attitude commonplace.

这些人的技巧留给他一定的印象，但是我猜想他也许认为他们对待艺术的态度是平庸无奇的。

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

而你可不是那种平庸的人。

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。

Jobs began to grow impatient with how boring it was turning out to be.

这款产品日渐显现出它的平庸，乔布斯开始失去耐心了。

I can see the judgment all over that generic face of yours.

我可以从你那平庸的脸上看出批判。

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

他们的目标是把每个人都降低到同他们一样平庸的水平。

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

他们面临着不断的压力，要在每一件事上都出类拔萃，没有失败或平庸的余地。

In a mediocre play, Joseph Tribbiana was able to achieve brilliant new levels of...continued on page 153...sucking.

在这出平庸的戏里，乔伊崔比亚尼成功地跃上另一层美妙而又新兴的… 接153页… 烂境界。

The answer is banal. Also terrifying. It's in the mirror.

答案是平庸的，也是可怕的。去照照镜子就能看到答案。

And he says AI often produces mediocre content when it replaces a performer or a writer.

他还表示，人工智能在取代表演者或作家时，往往产生平庸的内容。

And I get to this one, I'm like, okay, it's going to be some generic crap.

当我听到这一首时，心想，好吧，估计又是些平庸无奇的烂歌。

This produces an S-shaped plot more in line with the intuition that performance starts off relatively flat.

由此绘制出的S型图表更符合最初阶段相对平庸的表现。

Make sure you appreciate that being happy in the moment is actually just a recipe for mediocrity.

一定要明白，活在当下的快乐只是平庸的秘诀。

Let me explain. You see, I'm a superior genetic mutation, an improvement on the existing mediocre stock.

容我解释下，你知道我是一次高级别的基因突变，在已存的平庸血统上的一次进化。