What does Mediocre mean? - A useful English word for you to learn (with Misterduncan)

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์•„๋ž˜ ์˜๋ฌธ์ž๋ง‰์„ ๋”๋ธ”ํด๋ฆญํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ์˜์ƒ์ด ์žฌ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

00:03
Here is an interesting word that we often use when describing a thing
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ํ’ˆ์งˆ์ด๋‚˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ฌผ ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜,
00:06
or an experience that has a certain lack of quality or performance,
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์ฆ‰ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ์ด๋‚˜ ์š•๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•  ๋•Œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ž์ฃผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ๋‹จ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
00:11
Something that leaves no strong feeling or desire.
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'๋ณดํ†ต'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
00:16
The word is โ€˜mediocreโ€™.
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์ด ํ˜•์šฉ์‚ฌ๋Š”
00:19
This adjective is often used
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์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒƒ์˜ ํ’ˆ์งˆ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์„ ๋•Œ
00:21
when we wish to express the quality of something.
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์ž์ฃผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
00:25
In this sense,
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. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์˜๋ฏธ์—์„œ
00:26
we are stating that the thing in question is neither good nor bad.
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์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ์˜ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ข‹์ง€๋„ ๋‚˜์˜์ง€๋„ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
00:32
It is okay, but it is not great.
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๊ดœ์ฐฎ์ง€๋งŒ ์ข‹์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
00:38
A mediocre thing leaves no strong impression or afterthought.
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ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ธ์ƒ์ด๋‚˜ ์‚ฌํ›„ ๊ณ ๋ ค๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
00:43
It is just okay.
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๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
00:46
A certain type of motor car might be useful for getting around town,
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ํŠน์ • ์œ ํ˜•์˜ ์ž๋™์ฐจ๋Š” ๋„์‹œ๋ฅผ ์ด๋™ํ•  ๋•Œ ์œ ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ
00:50
but it is not a high specification vehicle.
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์‚ฌ์–‘์ด ๋†’์€ ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰์€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
00:54
It will get you around and it functions,
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๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹น์‹ ์„ ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋Šฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
00:58
but that is all you can say about it.
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๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ „๋ถ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
01:01
The car does not go fast.
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์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
01:03
It is not high quality and it certainly isn't top of the range,
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ํ’ˆ์งˆ์ด ๋†’์ง€๋„ ์•Š๊ณ  ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€๋„ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ
01:09
but it gets the job done.
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์ž‘์—…์„ ์™„๋ฃŒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
01:12
The car is mediocre.
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์ฐจ๋Š” ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
01:15
It is so-so.
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๊ทธ์ € ๊ทธ๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
01:18
A performance might be described as being mediocre
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๊ฐ๋™์„ ์ฃผ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋ฉด
01:21
if it fails to impress.
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์„ฑ๋Šฅ์ด ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  โ€‹โ€‹์„ค๋ช…๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
01:23
The show was okay, but it was pretty dull and overlong.
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. ์‡ผ๋Š” ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฝค ์ง€๋ฃจํ•˜๊ณ  ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ธธ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
01:28
At best I would describe it as โ€˜mediocreโ€™.
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๊ธฐ๊ปํ•ด์•ผ '๋ณดํ†ต'์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
01:34
A pleasant experience might turn out to be mediocre in the end.
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์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํŒ๋ช…๋  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
01:40
You might go to a lovely posh restaurant for a meal.
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๋‹น์‹ ์€ ์‹์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ํ˜ธํ™”๋กœ์šด ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘์— ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
01:43
The place itself is lovely, but the menu was mediocre.
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์žฅ์†Œ ์ž์ฒด๋Š” ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฉ”๋‰ด๋Š” ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
01:49
The food available was not that imaginative.
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์ด์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์Œ์‹์€ ๊ทธ๋‹ค์ง€ ์ƒ์ƒ๋ ฅ์ด ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
01:52
They had a mediocre selection of food on offer.
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๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ์Œ์‹์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
01:57
We might describe a mediocre thing as โ€˜so-soโ€™
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์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ '๊ทธ์ €๊ทธ๋Ÿญ์ €๋Ÿญ'
02:02
second rate, middling, ordinary, dull,
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์ด๋ฅ˜, ์ค‘๊ฐ„, ๋ณดํ†ต, ์ง€๋ฃจํ•จ,
02:08
undistinguished, uninspired, or run of the mill.
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๊ตฌ๋ณ„๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Œ, ์˜๊ฐ์ด ์—†๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
02:14
It is not the worst, but it is also a long way from being the best.
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์ตœ์•…์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๊ฐˆ ๊ธธ์ด ๋ฉ€๋‹ค.
02:20
It was okay, but I wouldn't do it again.
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๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.
02:24
The thing I saw, the food I ate,
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๋ณธ ๊ฒƒ, ๋จน์€ ์Œ์‹,
02:26
the place I went to was all right, but overall it was mediocre.
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๊ฐ€๋ณธ ๊ณณ์€ ๋‹ค ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•˜์œผ๋‚˜ ์ „์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
02:34
The word โ€˜mediocreโ€™ derives from Latin and literally means...
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'๋ณดํ†ต'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด๋Š” ๋ผํ‹ด์–ด์—์„œ ์œ ๋ž˜๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฌธ์ž ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ
02:38
โ€˜At middle heightโ€™.
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'์ค‘๊ฐ„ ๋†’์ด'๋ฅผ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ด ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ์ •๋ณด

์ด ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋Š” ์˜์–ด ํ•™์Šต์— ์œ ์šฉํ•œ YouTube ๋™์˜์ƒ์„ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์น˜๋Š” ์˜์–ด ์ˆ˜์—…์„ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ ๋™์˜์ƒ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€์— ํ‘œ์‹œ๋˜๋Š” ์˜์–ด ์ž๋ง‰์„ ๋”๋ธ” ํด๋ฆญํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๋™์˜์ƒ์ด ์žฌ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„๋””์˜ค ์žฌ์ƒ์— ๋งž์ถฐ ์ž๋ง‰์ด ์Šคํฌ๋กค๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜๊ฒฌ์ด๋‚˜ ์š”์ฒญ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ด ๋ฌธ์˜ ์–‘์‹์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฌธ์˜ํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

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