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Перевод: mediocrity

[существительное]
посредственность ; заурядность ; заурядный человек; бездарный человек

Тезаурус:

1. A swirling vortex of low art, madness, mediocrity and, occasionally, brilliance.
2. The quota legislation is generally depicted as a disastrous blow to the British film industry, dragging down its reputation and perpetuating the sort of mediocrity that previously characterized the output of Stoll and Ideal Studios.
3. NONE of the 27,310 who paid to see the Tennents Scottish Cup semi-final between Airdrie and Hearts at Hampden Park will wish to see a repeat of such numbing mediocrity in the replay tomorrow week.
4. It was as if poets owed an explanation to the audience for being what they were, to bring creatures apart down to the level of ordinary folks; as if the poet might be indulged his little failings and eccentricities as long as he allowed himself to be democratically mauled in public by thoughtless questioners or - even worse, much worse - by fellow-poets or by those who had poetic pretensions and who found in "question time" an opportunity to assuage their jealousy or seek revenge for their own incompetence and mediocrity.
5. A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent (which without impiety I cannot deny that I possess) will go to seed, if he always remains in the same place.
6. So it's with added comprehension that a reader of On the Look-Out can approach the taut ferocity of Sisson's early poems and the sombreness of those more recent, the jarring plainness of his Divine Comedy and other such translations, the savagery of his two gaunt novels, and the war against fashion-induced mediocrity waged by Sisson the literary critic.
7. As for the New Boisterous, the cheery spree of custard colours and polemical beiges that are the persistently "new" colourmotion, let's get it straight - the State of Pop is not Grey, but over-determined by a stifling, cloning rainbow coalition of mediocrity.
8. Tricot delivered a report of stunning mediocrity similar to those so often produced by pompous security commissions in Britain investigating spies, traitors, and telephone tapping.
9. The professors are of an inferior order, and very few of the students even approach mediocrity."
10. The demand fur such a common culture rests either on an altogether over-optimistic belief in the educability of the majority that is certainly not justified by experience or on a willingness to surrender the highest standards of taste and judgement to the incessant demands of mediocrity.
11. The point we sought to make, Mr Smith, was that it was ludicrous to assume - as Ford has - that millions of people aspire to nothing better than an average car, and to note that the master marketeers will probably get away with peddling mediocrity yet again.
12. The national character is often blamed for the mediocrity of British movies.
13. Situated in the space between the constraints of childhood and having a career, these are people who dream for a while of wanting a vague something more from life, yet are saddened by these dreams because they know deep down they'll probably relinquish them, buckle down to a life of mediocrity.