Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity.

现实是通往平庸最常见的道路。

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。

So you compensated for mediocrity by being large.

所以你的大块头弥补了你的平庸。

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

这样，我们就为平庸让了路了。

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。

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。

The snob is so afraid of mediocrity that they exert superiority.

“爱慕虚荣的人”非常害怕平庸，所以他们会表现出优越感。

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

他指责它“平庸、马虎，以及任何与创新相反的层面”。

It is their goal to bring everyone down to their level of mediocrity.

他们的目标是把每个人都降低到同他们一样平庸的水平。

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。