A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
平庸
Mediocrity
The only sin is mediocrity.
唯一的罪就是平庸。
We live in an age of mediocrity.
我们生活在一个平庸的时代。
Little things affect little minds.
小事影响小心意。
The height of mediocrity is still low.
平庸的高度仍然很低。
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
放弃:平庸的英雄主义。
I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.
我害怕自己不能超越平庸。
Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.
平庸不能激发伟大的爱，也不能激发伟大的恨。
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
在平庸的共和国里，天才是危险的。
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
嫉妒是平庸对天才的赞颂。
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
现在充斥着平庸和原子弹的味道。
You always admire what you really don't understand.
你总是欣赏你真正不懂的东西。
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
平庸会说话，但只有天才才会观察。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
有很多平庸的东西被赞美，有很多美好的东西被忽视或气馁。
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
竞争总是一件好事。它迫使我们做到最好。垄断使人们自满，满足于平庸。
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
没有什么比平庸更被认可的了，大多数人已经确立了平庸，并且对任何超越平庸的东西都咬牙切齿。
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!
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
对新鲜平庸的需求总是很大。在每一代人中，最没有教养的人胃口最大。
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
只有平庸才能被相信永远处于最佳状态。