Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

  • -- Ayn Rand 艾恩·兰德

平庸并不意味着平均智力,它意味着憎恨和嫉妒比自己优秀的人的平均智力。

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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

有些事情平庸是不能容忍的:诗歌、音乐、绘画、公众的雄辩。听一篇冷冰冰的演讲被人浮夸地大肆抨击,或者听一篇二流的诗歌被人说成全是拙劣诗人的夸夸其谈,这是多么折磨人啊!

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

平庸之辈只知自身的价值,而天才却能立即识别天才。

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

每当一个朋友成功了,我身上的某种东西就会消失。

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

恶人又嫉妒又恨。这是他们欣赏的方式。