Exams rank different levels of mediocrity, that's all.

考试把平庸者分为了不同的等级 仅此而已。

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity.

现实是通往平庸最常见的道路。

Hours of mediocrity can be reduced to five or six perfect images.

数小时的平淡镜头被缩短成五、六张完美的画面。

And, in doing so, we make way for mediocrity.

这样，我们就为平庸让了路了。

Yet mediocrity is no longer enough to justify a dismissal.

然而，平庸不再足以成为解雇的理由。

He accused it of “mediocrity, sloppiness, and whatever the opposite of innovative is.”

他指责它“平庸、马虎，以与创新相反的层面”。

And to settle for mediocrity is...is...it's frankly, you know, a sign of self-loathing and substandard work ethics.

而甘于平庸就是，就是… 坦白说，就是不自爱不够格的工作态度。

Why waste our time on mediocrity?

我们为什么要把时间浪费在这些平庸之才上？

You always seem to be Toeing the line of mediocrity, Nathaniel.

一向都是很平庸的 内特尼尔。

Broadway is the birthplace of mediocrity.

百老汇是平庸的产生地。

In my case, I wanted my life to be great and I feared boredom and mediocrity more than I feared failure.

对我来说，我曾希望我过最好的生活，我害怕平庸 害怕无聊胜过害怕失败。

And why is the world's greatest game led by such a group of mediocrities, notably Sepp Blatter, FIFA's boss since 1998?

为什么让一些平庸之辈来领导这项世界上最伟大的运动，特别是自1998年以来要让赛普? 布拉特担国际足联的主席？

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的自己。

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.

她不能够马上就承认她也许看高了韦狄，因为现在察觉出他的平庸，就意味着承认她过去极大的愚蠢。

We are suckling ourselves on machine-made mediocrity . It is bad for our souls , our minds , and our digestion.

我们靠机器制造出来的平庸的东西哺育自己，这对我们的灵魂，我们的头脑和我们的消化都是不好的。

Although often mocked in Brussels as a mediocrity, Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign-policy chief, finds herself at the heart of Middle Eastern mediation.

虽然在布鲁塞尔经常被嘲笑为平庸之辈，但欧盟外交政策负责人凯瑟琳? 阿什顿发现自己处在中东调解的心脏位置。

Lucky flukes might arise from time to time, but they would soon vanish under the general impulse to bring everything back to a stable mediocrity.

在进化过程中，特异现象时有发生但是它们很快就会消失，因为生物体总是倾向于使一切都回归于平常。

Mr Hastings excessively admires two German field-marshals: Gerd von Rundstedt and Eric von Manstein, whereas only Bill Slim and George Patton rise above the general mediocrity of Allied field commanders.

马克斯·哈斯丁极为敬重两位德国陆军元帅：格特·冯·伦德施泰特（Gerd von Rundstedt）和埃里克·冯·曼施坦因（Eric von Manstein），相比之下他认为盟军的将领中却只有比尔·斯里姆（Bill Slim）和乔治·巴顿（George Patton）非泛泛之辈。

" I really do not care to sit in the high places, " I objected. " I find life precarious enough in my present humble situation. I have no experience. Mediocrity, you see, has its compensations" .

" 坐这么高位子我还真不愿意。" 我反对了，" 我发现在我目前的低矮座位上生命已经够危险了。 我没有经验。 中不溜也是有好处的，看。"

The Germans say , " Man is what he eats . " If this be true , the people of the U.S.A, are well on their way to becoming a faceless mob of mediocrities .

" 人由其所吃食物定优劣。" 如果这话是真的，那么美国人就快要变成一群毫无特 点的平庸之辈了。