平庸的

Safely we may leave the crowded meeting, the inspiring mountain top, the helpful fellowship of "just men," and betake ourselves to our dim homely Emmaus, or to our dread public Colossae, or even to our far Macedonia in the mission field, quietly confident that just where He has placed us, in the usual round of life, He ordains that the borderland may be possessed, the victory won.

也许神要我们离去一个弟兄姊妹众多的聚会，一个最能给我们生气的山顶，一些有帮助的义人的交通，而回到平庸的以马忤斯去，或者到世俗的歌罗西去，或者竟到遥远的马其顿去，我们应当大着胆深信：神无论将我们放在甚么地方，祂早已命定那地方的胜利，会给我们获得。

Rather it was "the good" themselves, that is to say, the noble, powerful, high-stationed and high-minded, who felt and established themselves and their actions as good, that is, of the first rank, in contradistinction to all the low, low-minded, common and plebeian.

其实它是起源于那些"好人"自己，也就是说那些高贵的、有力的、上层的、高尚的人们判定他们自己和他们的行为是好的，意即他们感觉并且确定他们自己和他们的行为是上等的，用以对立于所有低下的、卑贱的、平庸的和粗俗的。

Of hair grey or white with age.2.old and tritenational selfsatisfaction, guided by the principle that everything must be slick,*(superficially or pretentiously smooth and dexterous) trivial, and predigested, and culminating in that false optimism which puts the basest interpretation on the dictum that "truth will prevail."

我所涉及到的是这种美学教条，其关键是对于平庸的正确思想的崇拜，根植于久远的民族的自我满足，并且受这种原则的指导——每一件事情必须平滑，平凡，简化，乃至达到一种虚假的乐观主义，它建立在这种格言最低级的转述上："真理将要流行。"

The life is bourgeois, it is same as a dead lake which is unruffled and haven't any wave, Any time look at it, it should be wateriness and lose its energy, in this case, sure, it is no affinity!

在我们身边，有很多这样其实有能力但却过得平庸的生活的人，他们追求的只是平淡的生活，所以，在他们的世界中，没有斗争，不求功名与富贵，只有和平，拿着属于自己的那一份薪水，做着属于自己的那一份工作，就这么平淡的，碌碌无为着…。

They tend to be older and lamer, and most corporate pay-scales are directly tied to how old and lame you are.

他们年纪偏大且趋于平庸，而且公司里工资等级之间跟他们的岁数和平庸挂钩。

A magnificent specimen of manhood he was truly augmented obviously by gifts of a high order, as compared with the other military supernumerary that is (who was just the usual everyday farewell, my gallant captain kind of an individual in the light dragoons, the 18th hussars to be accurate) and inflammable doubtless (the fallen leader, that is, not the other) in his own peculiar way which she of course, woman, quickly perceived as highly likely to carve his way to fame which he almost bid fair to do till the priests and ministers of the gospel as a whole, his erstwhile staunch adherents, and his beloved evicted tenants for whom he had done yeoman service in the rural parts of the country by taking up the cudgels on their behalf in a way that exceeded their most sanguine expectations, very effectually cooked his matrimonial goose, thereby heaping coals of fire on his head much in the same way as the fabled ass's kick.

与另外那个预备役陆军军官（即轻骑兵，说得确切些，第十八骑兵队的一员；是&再见吧，我豪侠的上尉&那样一种极其平庸的类型）相形之下，他确实是位男子大丈夫中的杰出楷模，加以禀赋极高，更是相得益彰。毫无疑问，他（这里指的是已垮台的领袖，而不是另外那个人）有着独特的火暴性子，而她作为一个女人，当然一眼就看得出，并认为惟其如此，他才名扬天下。正当大功即将告成之际，全体司铎、牧师，往昔那些坚定可靠的拥护者，以及他所爱护过的被剥夺了土地的佃户们——他曾在本国乡村以超过其任何乐观期望的劲头替这些佃户辩护，勇往直前为之效劳，而这些人却为了婚姻问题一举把他搞垮，犹如把炭火堆在他的头上，简直就像寓言中那头被踢上一脚的驴而今回顾一下往事，追想事情的整个经过，一切都恍如一场梦。

Because Eden is a sailor from a working class background, and the Morses are a bourgeois family, a union between them would be impossible until he reaches their level of wealth and perceived cultural, intellectual refinement.

伦敦不但倾注了他的全部心血，写下了自己如何在平庸的资产阶级鄙夷下含辛茹苦地读书和写作的经历，也尽情阐释了他个人的混杂着马克思主义的阶级观、斯宾塞的社会达尔文主义和尼采的&超人&说的社会见解。

But, if this world is not merely a bad joke, life a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance of the stars, and existence an empty laugh braying across the mysteries; if these intimations of a something behind and beyond are not evil humor born of indigestion or whimsies sent by the devil to mock and madden us, if, in a word, beauty means something, yet we must not seek to interpret the meaning.

但是，即使这个世界不仅仅是个拙劣的玩笑，生命不仅仅是星体交织的寒光中的一点平庸的火花。人生也不仅仅是喧噪于神秘之乡的空虚的一笑；即使这一切发自那既不渴望也不可及的某种事物的启示，不是由于内在的失调而迸发的邪恶之念，也不是魔鬼用来嘲弄和激怒我们的奇谈怪论，一句话，徜若美具有某种意义，我们还是不要试图去了解释它的意义为好。

It is hard to see how he can bring spending under control without roughing up Congress a bit. It is also hard to see how he can fulfil his promise to be a post-partisan president while he continues to give so much power to Democratic barons. Back in 1962, when he tried to rank America's presidents according to their merits, Arthur Schlesinger concluded that "mediocre presidents believe in negative government, in self-subordination to the legislative power."

他要如何在不损害国会利益的前提下控制开支目前还不得而知；同样无法预料的是，他如何一边将大权交给民主党中的权贵，一边履行自己&超越党派之争&的承诺。1962年，Arthur Schelesinger在为美国的总统排定等级时曾总结道：&平庸的总统对执政权持否定态度，他们会对立法权俯首称臣。&

Virtually unknown outside of Scandinavia until she was nearly 40 years old, Flagstad exploded upon the operatic firmament with that Metropolitan Opera debut, which just happened to be broadcast across the United States and Canada.

事实上在她家乡斯堪的纳维亚半岛以外都未曾知晓，直至她年龄近40岁时，才被对音乐无知且平庸的人们和评论家认识到，她那次仅以广播的形式对美国和加拿大两国播送的大都会歌剧院首演实况，就是她在歌剧艺术的天空下，其歌唱天才及辉煌技艺的实际爆发。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失