| 正面 | 10690.mediocre 英 [,miːdɪ'əʊkə]美 [,midɪ'okɚ]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 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.adj. 普通的；平凡的；中等的 例句： 1. I thought the play was only mediocre.我认为这部戏剧只是平庸之作。 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. mediocremediocre: [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’.=> mediummediocre (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." |