mediocre

英 [ˌmiːdiˈəʊkə(r)]

美 [ˌmiːdiˈoʊkər]

adj.  平庸的; 普通的; 平常的

复数：mediocres　

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Collins.1 / BNC.14371 / COCA.10434

牛津词典

adj.

• 平庸的；普通的；平常的
  not very good; of only average standard
  1. a mediocre musician/talent/performance
     平庸的音乐家 / 才能 / 表演
  2. I thought the play was only mediocre.
     我认为这部戏剧只是平庸之作。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （事物）普通的，平庸的，一般的
  If you describe something asmediocre, you mean that it is of average quality but you think it should be better.
  1. His school record was mediocre.
     他在学校成绩平平。
  2. ...mediocre music.
     不尽如人意的音乐

英英释义

adj

• poor to middling in quality
  1. there have been good and mediocre and bad artists
• lacking exceptional quality or ability
  1. a novel of average merit
  2. only a fair performance of the sonata
  3. in fair health
  4. the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average
  5. the performance was middling at best
  Synonym:averagefairmiddling
• moderate to inferior in quality
  1. they improved the quality from mediocre to above average
  Synonym:second-rate

双语例句

• This leads to mediocre training, fitness, and performance.
  这将导致平庸的训练，体能和成绩。
• Virginia was a perfectionist. She was just not prepared to settle for anything mediocre
  弗吉尼娅是个完美主义者，她根本不愿意拿任何普普通通毫无特色的东西将就。
• Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
  有时我会担心在平庸的世界里成功。
• Your bodies and names will perish, but the river will flow on for ever--the names of mediocre writers will be forgottern, but those of the great masters will live.
  尔曹身与名俱灭，不废江河万古流。
• He was a mediocre student; his academic records were not excellent, but not bad, either.
  他是平凡的学生，成绩不优秀，也不坏。
• He spent much of his time reading mediocre paperbacks.
  他花了许多时间阅读内容平庸的简装书。
• How can we produce top-class engineers when universities are constrained to offer salaries that can only attract mediocre staff?
  大学的财力有限，提供的薪酬仅能吸引水平一般的教师，在这种情况下，我们如何能培养出一流的工程师？
• Considerably more attractive, than the mediocre person.
  大家更为有能力的人更有魅力，比那个平庸的人，吸引人得多，对吧？
• She is just a very ordinary singer, her singing techniques and style are very mediocre.
  她是个非常平凡的歌手；她的歌唱技巧和风格都非常平庸而已。
• Only lazybones and mediocre persons could hanker after the days of messing together.
  只有懒汉庸才才会留恋那大锅饭的年代。