Mediocre

(adj.) poor to middling in quality; 'there have been good and mediocre and bad artists' .

(adj.) moderate to inferior in quality; 'they improved the quality from mediocre to above average' .

整理:胡安妮塔

• They reveal a depth and range of meaning in experiences which otherwise might be mediocre and trivial. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Its opposite is the mediocre, the average. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• There is a variety of testimony to the effect that not only musical sounds, but stray words and phrases, were actually transmitted with mediocre, casual success. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It is empty and thin: a stifling of living currents in the interest of a mediocre regularity. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Miss Gertrude Farish, in fact, typified the mediocre and the ineffectual. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It means a mediocre hitter in baseball. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

编辑:卡蒂