mediocre person

基本解释

The ability to overcome failure is one big difference between successful and mediocre people.
成功人士和平庸的人的區別就在於他們戰勝失敗的能力。
I would rather be marooned on a desert island with a diverse group of mediocre people who know how to communicate, from a singer to a plumber, say, than with a bunch of geniuses.
我甯願和一群知道如何溝通的不同普通人被睏在沙漠，也不原和一群天才一起被睏在那裡。
Mediocre people talk about things.
中庸之人談論事情。

Now what's interesting is there's two types of people, the nearly perfect person and the mediocre person.
有趣的是,被採訪者有兩種人，幾近完美的人和資質平平的人。
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