庸俗 | yōng sú | vulgar; tacky; tawdry | |
平庸 | píng yōng | mediocre; indifferent; commonplace | |
中庸 | zhōng yōng | the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四书 | |
中庸 | zhōng yōng | golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary | |
附庸 | fù yōng | vassal; dependent; subordinate; subservient; appendage |
1 | What I' ve learned though is that the huge percentage of all my worries is nothing more than the illusions of my mind. | |
2 | He never discovers that she was an agent. | |
3 | I despaired of our people, thought they had given up liberty for this mediocre tyranny. | |
4 | Now some of this argument can be easily refuted by any measure of looking at what we can call the "culture industries" in which US global leadership is undoubted. | |
5 | An even greater truth is that none of us is going to become the king of the world anytime soon. |