Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity.

现实是通往平庸最常见道路。

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。

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

我是一个平庸球员。有时候我可以做个好选手。

So you compensated for mediocrity by being large.

所以大块头弥补了平庸。

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，要在每一件事上都出类拔萃，没有失败或平庸余地。

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

他当时很可怜，非常虚弱，跟一个平庸巫师共用一具身体。

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

好播客、平庸播客和糟糕播客之间有何区别？

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.

再天才人也无法阻止愚蠢、平庸、空虚根伸向身边一切人与物，把他们抵御力吸个一干二净。

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。

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

故事其中一个版本描述了一场有钱官吏小女儿和她平庸追求者私奔。

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

只要是烤了，它们就不是平庸饼干，但是会把所有东西都烤在一起。

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

拉斯洛只是个平庸棋手，而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、平庸文章。

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.

我可以从那平庸脸上看出批判。

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。

He had a sweet and generous nature, and yet was always blundering; a real feeling for what was beautiful and the capacity to create only what was commonplace; a peculiar delicacy of sentiment and gross manners.

他禀性仁慈、慷慨，却不断闹出笑话来：他对美东西从心眼里喜爱，但自己却只创造出平庸东西；他感情非常细腻，但举止却很粗俗。

Because although 2022 has also been a year in which the banality of modern evil, and the general lack of humanity has been on display quite predominantly, to say the least, it has not discouraged me in the slightest.

因为尽管 2022 年也是现代邪恶平庸和普遍缺乏人性一年，但至少可以说，这并没有让我气馁。

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精华结合在一起，做出一个平庸组合，但这顿午餐中，我对食材组合特别惊讶。

Perhaps Meg felt, without understanding why, that they were not particularly cultivated or intelligent people, and that all their gilding could not quite conceal the ordinary material of which they were made.

或许梅格自己也不明白为什么，但她觉得他们并不特别有修养或聪明，他们金玉其外外表也不完全遮盖住他们平庸本质。