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.
中文解释
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.
实用例句
1. I thought the play was only mediocre.
我认为这部戏剧只是平庸之作。
来自《权威词典》
2. The student tried hard, but his work is mediocre.
该生学习刻苦, 但学业平庸.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3. The critics condemned the play as mediocre.
评论家谴责那出戏为低劣产物.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
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。
来自柯林斯例句
5. Only lazybones and mediocre persons could hanker after the days of messing together.