| 单词 | every-day-world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasevery-day-world 2. That can be encountered every day; common, ordinary. Also: (of a person or his or her attributes) commonplace, mediocre, inferior. Also in every-day-world adj. (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace quotidian1430 trite1548 beaten1587 trivial1589 threadbare1598 protrite1604 prose1606 commonplace1616 everyday1628 prostitute1631 prosaical1699 tritical1709 prosaic1729 tritish1779 hack1821 rum-ti-tum1832 unspecial1838 banal1840 commonplacish1847 prosy1849 inventionless1887 thread-worn1888 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxvi. sig. X6 The way to make Honour last, is to doe by it, as men doe by rich Iewels; not incommon them to the every day eye: but case them vp, and weare them but on Festivals. 1694 tr. Terence Eunuch ii, in tr. Terence Comedies 61 The most charming Look! From this Moment, I've done with the whole Sex besides. Your Every-day Lasses and Faces will ne're down again. a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) II. 182 Things of common concern..make no slight impression on every-day minds. 1781 S. Johnson Akenside in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets X. 4 This was no every-day writer. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria 202 Persons of no every-day powers and acquirements. 1831 J. W. Croker in J. Boswell Life Johnson (new ed.) IV. 19 Every-day knowledge had the most of his just praise. 1845 J. H. Newman Ess. Devel. Christian Doctr. 249 Her every-day name..was the Catholic Church. 1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xxxii. 277 [She] had shrunk from the every-day people in the parlour of the public-house. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter 5 The vulgar everyday-world way of putting the idea. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 287 Treason is spoken of as an everyday matter. 1871 Harper's Mag. Feb. 449/1 People who have a cook..ought not to dine like everyday folks. 1927 Scotsman 24 Aug. 11/ 5 Sweeny after the first glorious burst, gave a very ‘every-day’ performance. 1955 Anderson (Indiana) Herald 22 Oct. 11/4 I don't see no need fer stirrin' up a big commotion jest over a common, ol', ever'day haircut. 2001 N.Y. Times 31 Oct. s2/5 These guys are not your run-of-the-mill, everyday pitchers. < as lemmas |
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