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。

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

“爱慕虚荣的”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。

They face constant pressure to excel at everything they do with no room for failure or mediocrity.

他们面临着不断的压，每一件事上都出类拔萃，没有失败或平庸的余地。

Because the oscar voting process favors mediocrity.

因为奥斯卡投票过程有利于平庸。

And then what fits into quality versus mediocrity.

然后是什么适合质量与平庸。

Ugliness and mediocrity does exactly the opposite.

丑陋和平庸恰恰相反。

I assure you we can't bear mediocrities.

我向你保证，我们不能忍受平庸。

You sit around and go Either quality or mediocrity.

你坐那里，么质量么平庸。

Mediocrity stands out as not special, not extraordinary and not above.

平庸脱颖而出， 不是特别的， 不是非凡的， 也不是高高上的。

It's just the definition of mediocrity, like it's (unintelligable).

这只是平庸的定义， 就像它（无法理解）。

We are suckling ourselves on machine-made mediocrity.

我们正沉浸机器制造的平庸之中。

You always seem to be Toeing the line of mediocrity, Nathaniel.

你一向都是很平庸的 内特尼尔。