词汇 | 平庸之辈 |
释义 | 平庸之辈 Dwight D. Eisenhower was dismissed as a dull mediocrity by historians in the1950s and1960s; his reputation today is very high. Dogs look up to you; cat down on you; pigs treat you as an equal. A thorough mediocrity, Keating's sense of self is as derivative as his building designs. Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to achievers. Thus mediocrity triumphs with the excuse of restrictions imposed by democracy. You have to aim for the stars, not mediocrity. Japan's bureaucratic allocation of credit seldom spurs animal spirits. Rather, it nourishes zombies. Although often mocked in Brussels as a mediocrity, Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign- policy chief, finds herself at the heart of Middle Eastern mediation. There is not a line of his music that could have been conceived by a little mind. The modest man is companion of a yet lower rank, whose only power of giving pleasure is not to interrupt it. Thomas Wolfe is not a mediocrity. Mediocre hires hurt you twice: they get less done, but they also make you big, because you need more of them to solve a given problem. |
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