underachievement can´t reach the high goal and unwilling to accept the low be unable to achieve one´s heart´s desire but unwilling to accept less be too choosy (or picky) to fulfill one´s wish be unfit for a higher post but unwilling to take a lower one Be unable to achieve one´s heart´s desire but unwilling to accept less. Unwilling to take a lower one.
Some day we´ll get left.
总有一天咱们得落个高不成低不就。
—— 给力词典精选When I was a year of torment from nothing, I began to decline. Since then the result is the cause of it.
当我一年折腾下来一无所有的时候,我开始低落。从此对事业也就高不成低不就了。
—— 给力词典精选And he always underachievement, often angry hearts, attitudes gradually became aloof, even away from the crowd.
而他总是高不成低不就,心中常常愤愤不平,态度也逐渐变得孤傲,甚至远离人群。
—— 给力词典精选That left the moguls with sour-gut rumblings as the box office continued its months-long record of underachievement.
这让与酸肠传言的巨头作为票房继续其长达数月的高不成低不就的纪录。
—— 给力词典精选between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
有些事情太伟大,我们没那么大能耐,有些事情又太微小,我们懒得去做。在这种高不成低不就时,要当心,可能会一事无成。
—— 给力词典精选