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单词 workaday
释义
workadaywork‧a‧day /ˈwɜːkədeɪ $ ˈwɜːr-/ adjective [only before noun] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINworkaday
Origin:
1800-1900 workyday (16-19 centuries), from workyday ‘working day’ (16-19 centuries), from workeday (12-16 centuries), from work + day
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Terry deals with the workaday details of running a store.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • After the opulence of the rest of the palace, the workaday Tudor Kitchens come as something of a relief.
  • And here sits Rusty Sabich, thirty-nine years old, full of lifelong burdens and workaday fatigue.
  • Even at its most workaday, shop life held a hint of drama and spectacle.
  • Sometimes, complete new pieces of biochemical equipment evolve, but more often workaday genes are pressed into service.
  • The civilization underlying it, that of modest workaday life, had very little share in it.
  • They find it easier to listen to their own thoughts and ideas rather than to focus on the workaday world.
ordinary and not interesting SYN  everyday:  He promised to tackle the workaday matters affecting people’s daily lives.
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