| 词汇 | workaday |
| 释义 | workaday adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈwɜː.kə.deɪ/ us /ˈwɝː.kə.deɪ/ ordinary; not unusual: 普通的；平淡的 Compared to the extravagance and glamour of last winter's clothes, this season's collection look simple, almost workaday.与去年冬季时装的奢华艳丽相比，本季的时装看上去简朴，甚至有些普通。 an escape from the workaday world从平淡乏味的生活中解脱出来 Synonyms everyday mundane quotidianformal unremarkable 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. Plain and ordinary as it comesidiom austere austerely austerity average Joe homespun homey humble humdrum middle-of-the-road something/nothing to shout aboutidiom sparely spartan stale starkly unornamented unostentatious unostentatiously unpainted unremarkable Examples of workadayworkaday They leave aside such grand challenges as the unconscious and focus on such workaday functions as - arithmetic calculation. Knowing a tensed fact is a kind of knowing-how to get around successfully in the workaday world. Their view may be workaday or commonplace or may overlook opportunities for intellectual enrichment. The most common items taken were ' household goods ', a term probably describing general workaday items. The important point about the woods was their separation from the workaday world, where all men were free from restraints. We learn about his social and educational background, his musical tastes and ambitions, his workaday life. In the story of the lost file we see the character and workaday requests of this clientele, the city's glorious past and the power of the saint all drawn together. They challenge us to test rather than assume that more participatory policymaking, the stuff of workaday democracy, does in fact yield more legitimate and effective policymaking. Nevertheless, it remains more likely that a woman graduate on having children retires temporarily from the workaday world, to return when her children are of school age. The imbalance between expectations and the constraints of the workaday world, as well as commitments to sincerity and authenticity, are bound to place limits on the caring capacities of physicians. It is the complete change of surroundings, the complete change of company away from the everyday rush and bustle of workaday life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is true; but it is expenditure on infrastructure or even more direct aid given to improve workaday conditions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should remember that to the members of the emergency services the risk of injury and death is an ever-present part of their workaday world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has its perplexities at every point, over a long extended line which touches workaday human affairs all the time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That must be part of our workaday lives; it must become our daily labour. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 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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