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词汇 ordinary
释义 ordinary
adjective
uk /ˈɔː.dən.əri/ us /ˈɔːr.dən.er.i/
B1
not different or special or unexpected in any way; usual: 普通的,平常的;平凡的;一般的
an ordinary neighbourhood普通的街区
Readers of the magazine said they wanted more stories about ordinary people and fewer stories about the rich and famous.这本杂志的读者说他们希望多登一些普通人的故事,少登一些关于富人和名人的事情。
Her last concert appearance was no ordinary (= a very special) performance.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

normal
normalTemperatures are well above normal today.
usualI went to bed at my usual time.
ordinaryThe magazine has stories about ordinary people rather than celebrities.
standardIt's standard practice for surgeons to wear gloves.
naturalIt's completely natural to feel anxious on your first day at a new school.
typicalHe was a typical teenager - arguing with his parents and staying out late.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

being part of normal life and not special
ordinaryHe took ordinary household objects and transformed them into pieces of art.
everydayComputers are now just a part of everyday life.
quotidianWe longed for the quotidian rituals, like shopping and tea, that the end of the war would bring.
day-to-dayDay-to-day operations of the team would be handled by the assistant coach.
dailyI'm looking for a good daily shampoo that won't damage my hair.
 in the ordinary wayUK
normally, or in the way that usually happens: 一般,通常
If we hadn't seen the TV programme, we would have carried on giving money to the charity in the ordinary way.要是我们没有看这个电视节目,我们还会像往常那样给该慈善组织捐钱的。
 out of the ordinary
C2
unusual: 不寻常
For the police, the incident was nothing out of the ordinary.
Her paintings depict the lives of ordinary people in the last century.她的画反映了上个世纪普通人的生活。
Movie theaters are harder to repurpose than ordinary stores in a shopping mall.
She accused the government of trampling on the needs and rights of the ordinary citizen.她谴责政府无视普通公民的需求和权利。
At times, his performance verged on brilliance, but at others it was only ordinary.
My job's been downgraded to that of ordinary editor.我已经被降为普通编辑了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

Related word


ordinariness

ordinary | American Dictionary


ordinary
adjective
us/ˈɔr·dənˌer·i/
not different, special, or unexpected in any way; usual:
His music was of the sort that ordinary Americans could relate to.
Computers are now widely available in ordinary school settings.

Examples of ordinary


ordinary
Tenant farmers will be addressed at their market "ordinaries," tenant farmers, who are doubly protected, and they will be told they are to be taxed.
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He said that these remedies are discussed at market ordinaries and really are the remedies to which a large number of farmers are looking forward.
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One of the sections that was quoted was the home railways section, which was divided into the ordinaries, the debentures, the guaranteed and the preference shares of the railway companies.
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My judgement is that such experiences are no less vivid than ordinary experience, although of course greatly reduced in informational content.
More surprisingly, he had little time for the actual experiences of the millions of ordinary people who in our time have been at war.
Consumption was part of the ordinary life, still represented, albeit often precariously, by the home front.
No call to care, finally, could be too mundane; what could be more ordinary than peeling an egg?
Actually nothing out of the ordinary for pediatric newborn intensive care was employed in this case.
Thus, the formation of regular plurals is an instance of ordinary combinatoriality.
Finally, we shall approximate this system of recurrence equations by a system of ordinary differential equations whose solution provides us with the bounds mentioned above.
Resolution of physician-patient conflicts in courts has become an ordinary event.
In comparison to ordinary conversations, less common words are employed in both informational and narrative texts.
What sort of disputes did ordinary people bring to court?
While there are no particular names by category, crickets are divided into two groups: large, ordinary crickets and non-ordinary.
1920s when they were first widely used in ordinary buildings.
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