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。她就是无法勉强接受任何平庸的东西。
We can, perhaps, attribute mediocre results to an inadequate placebo effect.
也许，我们可以把平庸的结果归因于安慰剂效应的不足。
The mediocre design of many contemporary buildings can be traced to both clients and architects.
许多当代建筑的平庸设计可以说是客户和建筑师双方造成的。
The excessive emphasis on scholarship generates many unread books and mediocre articles in academic journals.
对学术的过度重视，导致学术期刊上出现了许多未读的书籍和平庸的文章。
I remembered that my mathematics was mediocre at that time, but he was excellent at solving mathematics questions.
我记得当时我的数学很平庸，而他在解决数学问题方面很优秀。
"I'm a mediocre harmonica player and a worse guitarist, but I had my pick of incredible musicians," says Mr. Anderson.
“我是个平庸的口琴演奏者和糟糕的吉他手，但我挑选出了非常棒的音乐家们。”安德森先生说。
According to critics, the country's high schools are almost uniformly mediocre—the result of an egalitarian government education policy.
根据批评家的说法，这个国家的高中几乎都是一样地平庸的——这是政府平等主义教育政策的结果。
Tempted as I was by the chocolate-flavored cigarette wrappers, my only purchase was some mediocre pork buns and pastries from the Wonder Bakery.
尽管我被巧克力味的卷烟纸吸引住了，但我只买了一些普通的猪肉包和Wonder Bakery 的糕点。
She noted, many young people are especially risk averse at school—afraid that one low test score or mediocre grade could cost them a spot at a selective university.
她指出，许多年轻人尤其不愿意在学校冒险，担心一次考试的分数低或成绩差会让他们失去进入名牌大学的机会。
I have ground out some verses, which, I'm afraid, are too mediocre to appear in your publication.
我搜索枯肠做了几句诗，恐怕过于平淡，不配在你们刊物上发表。
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。
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
普通的老师告诉你是什么，好的老师告诉你为什么。
If you absorb a mediocre style, your output will be mediocre.
如果你摄取模仿的风格平庸，那么你写出的东西也就庸俗。
Over all, Egypt’s competitiveness is mediocre but not terrible.
总体来说，埃及的竞争力差强人意，但也不算太糟。
Growth in Brazil, the region's largest economy, remains mediocre, at 2.8%.
区域内最大经济体巴西的增长率，仍然只维持在一个中等水平2.8%。
So far the results are mediocre," Medvedev said on Russian television.
到目前为止，结果却是非常平庸”。
Obama joked that Hawking had been a "brilliant man but a mediocre student".
奥巴马开玩笑地说霍金是一个“卓越的人、平庸的学生”。
Suddenly your dead-end job and mediocre family car don’t seem so disappointing.
突然间，自己没有出路的工作和平庸的家庭看上去也不那么令人失望了。
Some of them argue that many of the jobs are mediocre minimum-wage affairs.
有些人认为德州的很多新增岗位仅属于差强人意的最低薪工作。
And despite all the hype about new entrepreneurs, they have had a mediocre decade.
并且尽管所有的宣传都是关于新企业家，他们也不过是度过了一个平庸的十年。
HSBC is not a mediocre firm in crisis. It is a great one slipping towards mediocrity.
在金融危机中，汇丰不是一个平庸的企业，但汇丰是一家正在从伟大滑向平庸的企业。
In the end, it will probably be Mr Aso's mediocre performance that the coup DE grace.
最后或许是麻生先生平庸无奇的表现构成了最后一击。
I think of myself as a mediocre writer. I do not come by my mediocrity naturally.
我自以为算得上是个中流的写手，尽管如此，我也绝非天生就到了这个水平。
Mediocre personnel - technical or process insufficiency causes delays at multiple levels.
平庸的人员素质——人员在技术或流程方面的能力不足会导致多个层面的延迟。
Though a mediocre film, it was an interesting idea, and one that would endure for decades.
虽然这只是一部平庸的电影，但想法生动有趣，而且这一想法将持续几十年的时间。
If you are lazy and don't have strong willpower, you are likely to have a mediocre lifestyle.
如果你懒惰又没有强有力的一直，你很可能就要过着平庸的生活了。
The real good and bad scholars are a minority, whereas the medium or even mediocre ones a majority.
真正好和真正差的学者总不会是多数，而相对平常甚至平庸的学者总会较多。
The real good and bad scholars are a minority, whereas the medium or even mediocre ones a majority.
真正好和真正差的学者总不会是多数，而相对平常甚至平庸的学者总会较多。
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