| 词汇 | ordinariness |
| 释义 | ordinariness noun[ U ] uk /ˈɔː.dən.əri.nəs/ us /ˌɔːr.dənˈer.i.nəs/ the quality of not being different or special or unexpected in any way: 平凡 She expected him to act like a star, but she was surprised at his ordinariness.她以为他的举止会像个明星，然而却惊讶于他的平凡。 the dull ordinariness of her life See ordinary It was not an unusual face, but its very ordinariness moved him. She was grateful for the sheer ordinariness of it all. It is her ordinariness that makes her achievements all the more outstanding. Plain and ordinary as it comesidiom austere austerely austerity average Joe homespun homey humble humdrum middle-of-the-road sparely spartan stale starkly starkness unostentatious unostentatiously unpainted unremarkable unremarkably Examples of ordinarinessordinariness This ordinariness, which stands in direct conflict with their actual fame, serves both to diffuse fame's negative connotations and promote its accessibility to the audience. Or it might transpire in a strange infatuation with the commonplace, so long as this ordinariness is clearly established as a new aesthetic. The issue of where each stands vis-' -vis culture's multiplicity-not to be a confused with culture's ordinariness-is too complex to enter into here. However, by examining the context of these statements, it appears that the use of 'natural' refers to normality or 'ordinariness' rather than any biological reason. The use of ordinariness as a defence to commercialism, as a form of authenticity, was no longer enough. In the first instance, a high standard of ordinariness will suffice. The notions of friendship and conversation, in their very ordinariness, express what is most important in the best of routine practice. It is the way that respondents interpret ordinariness which is situationally determined. This 'ordinariness' contrasts markedly with the drama and pathology, which is so often featured in journalistic, or agency accounts of homelessness. In his argument, that distance establishes "a space of ordinariness," a "position" that can claim "to speak for and embody the commonality of humanity" (222-23). Ordinariness can no longer defend them from the attendant distance and commercialisation of being so famous, since it is crushed by the momentum of the large culture industry machine. Everything is just disguise, play, jest, flirtation and irony: things that ought to be in every way more difficult to grasp than the usual ordinariness of life. That constituency link—the communication and contact with the average elector—is the principal means by which politicians retain their ordinariness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The more humour, the more ordinariness that there is in our information which we put over to foreign countries, the better it will be put over. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This ordinariness can get to a point of distorting reality. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of ordinariness These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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