名词::mediocritization
名词复数::mediocrities
动词::mediocritize
"a team of aging second-raters"
"shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him"
1.平庸;平凡;普通
If you refer to themediocrity of something, you mean that it is of average quality but you think it should be better.
e.g. ...themediocrity of most contemporary literature...
大多数当代文学作品的平庸
e.g. Fashion today is sloppymediocrity.
如今的时尚品位低下,平庸无奇。
2.庸人;平庸之辈
If you refer to someone as amediocrity, you think that they are not very good at what they do.
e.g. Surrounded by mediocrities, he can seem a towering intellectual.
在周围一群泛泛之辈的衬托之下,他就像一个鹤立鸡群的智者。
1. 平常:mediocre 平凡的 |mediocrity 平常 | meditate on 沉思
2. 平庸之才:313. mediator: 调停者,仲裁人. | 314.mediocrity: 平庸之才. | 315. mendicant: 乞丐.
There are certain things..beside which even distinguished, searching, passionate novels pale to mediocrity.
出自:D. Parker