Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity.

现实是通往最常见道路。

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

我是个球员。有时候我可以做个好选手。

So you compensated for mediocrity by being large.

所以你大块头弥补了你。

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

他当时处境很可怜，非常虚弱，跟个巫师共用具身体。

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

故事其中个版本描述了场有钱官吏小女儿和她追求者私奔。

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

只要是你烤了，它们就不是饼干，但是你把所有东西都烤在起。

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

这些人技巧留给他定印象，但是我猜想他也许认为他们对待艺术态度是无奇。

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

而你可不是那种人。

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

因此，boilerplate词可以表示普通、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，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样水。

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，要在每件事上都出类拔萃，没有失败或余地。

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

在这出戏里，乔伊崔比亚尼成功地跃上另层美妙而又新兴… 接153页… 烂境界。

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

答案是，也是可怕。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.

当我听到这首时，心想，好吧，估计又是些无奇烂歌。

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

由此绘制出S型图表更符合最初阶段相对表现。

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

定要明白，活在当下快乐只是秘诀。

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

容我解释下，你知道我是次高级别基因突变，在已存血统上次进化。