mediocre是什么意思_mediocre怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

lacking exceptional quality or ability;"a novel of average merit"
"only a fair performance of the sonata"
"in fair health"
"the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"
"the performance was middling at best"

poor to middling in quality;"there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"

中英词源

mediocre 普通的，平庸的

来自拉丁语mediocris,半山腰，中等的，普通的，来自medius,中间的，词源同middle,ocris,山峰，锯齿状高山，词源同acrobat,acrid.后词义进一步贬义化，形容平庸的，差劲的。比较其同源词mean.

mediocre: mediocre: [16] Etymologically, mediocre means ‘halfway up a mountain’. It comes from Latin mediocris ‘of middle height, in a middle state’, which was formed from medius ‘middle’ (source of English medium) and ocris ‘rough stony mountain’.
=> medium
mediocre (adj.): 1580s, from Middle French médiocre (16c.), from Latin mediocris "of middling height or state, moderate, ordinary," figuratively "mediocre, mean, inferior," originally "halfway up a mountain," from medius "middle" (see medial (adj.)) + ocris "jagged mountain" (cognate with Greek okris "peak, point," Welsh ochr "corner, border," Latin acer "sharp;" see acrid). As a noun, "medicore thing or person," by 1834.

词态变化

权威造句

1. I thought the play was only mediocre.: 我认为这部戏剧只是平庸之作。

2. The student tried hard, but his work is mediocre.: 该生学习刻苦, 但学业平庸.

3. The critics condemned the play as mediocre.: 评论家谴责那出戏为低劣产物.

4. 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，她根本不愿意拿任何普普通通毫无特色的东西将就。

5. Only lazybones and mediocre persons could hanker after the days of messing together.: 只有懒汉庸才才会留恋那大锅饭的年代.

近反义词

average 平均数

ordinary 平凡的

moderate 适度的

fair 公平的

passable 过得去的

adequate 足够的

acceptable 合意的

so-so 平常的

medium 中等的

commonplace 平凡的

halfway 中途的

tolerable 还不错的

tiresome 令人厌倦的

middling 中等的

second-rate 二流的

unexceptional 非例外的

middle-of-the-road 中间道路的

run-of-the-mill 不出众的

boring 令人厌烦的

pedestrian 徒步的

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记忆方法

1. Etymologically, mediocre means "halfway up a mountain".
2. medium => mediocre.
3. from medius "middle" + ocris "jagged mountain" (see acrid, acrobat, acrophobia).
4. acrid, acrobat, acrophobia => mediocre.

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