workaday

英 ['w??k?de?] 美['w?k?'de]
  • adj. 工作日的;日常的;普通的,平凡的

英文詞源


workaday
c. 1200, werkedei (n.), "day designated for labor rather than religious observance or rest," from Old Norse virkr dagr "working day;" see work (n.) + day. It passed into an adjective 16c.

雙語(yǔ)例句


1. Enough of fantasy, the workaday world awaited him.
天馬行空地幻想了一番之后,等待他的是平淡無(wú)奇的現(xiàn)實(shí)世界。

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2. This is a workaday newspaper.
這是一份枯燥乏味(或:普通)的報(bào)紙.

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3. Imagine, Tibbs suggests, that we push grimy workaday industrial processes toward the character of biological processes.
提布斯啟發(fā)說(shuō), 想象一下, 我們推動(dòng)骯臟的普通工業(yè)生產(chǎn)方式向具有生物特性的加工方式轉(zhuǎn)化.

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4. Instead it dawns on a familiar, workaday place, still in need of groceries and sewage disposal.
相反,它照在了一個(gè)熟悉的平庸的地方, 這個(gè)地方仍舊需要食品雜貨和污水排放.

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5. It dawns on a familiar, workaday place, still in need of groceries and sewage disposal.
它灑在一個(gè)司空見(jiàn)慣, 平凡庸碌的地方, 一個(gè)仍然無(wú)法擺脫食品雜貨,污水處理的地方.

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