| 词汇 | commonplace |
| 释义 | commonplace adjective uk /ˈkɒm.ən.pleɪs/ us /ˈkɑː.mən.pleɪs/ happening often or often seen or experienced and so not considered to be special: 平常的；常见的；普通的；普遍的 Electric cars are increasingly commonplace.电动汽车越来越普及了。 happening or seen often commonWorking from home has become increasingly common. rifeViolence was rife throughout the city. commonplaceEarthquakes are a commonplace occurrence in California. be two/ten a pennyUK Good designers are two a penny, but great designers are worth their weight in gold. be a dime a dozenUS Those cheap little metal cars are a dime a dozen. You can get them anywhere. Plain and ordinary as it comesidiom austere austerely austerity average Joe homey humble humdrum middle-of-the-road mundane sparely spartan stale starkly starkness unostentatious unostentatiously unpainted unremarkable unremarkably commonplace noun[ C ] formaluk /ˈkɒm.ən.pleɪs/ us /ˈkɑː.mən.pleɪs/ a boring remark that is used very often and does not have much meaning: 陈词滥调；寒暄客套；老生常谈 We exchanged commonplaces about the weather over cups of tea.我们喝了几杯茶，就天气方面的话题寒暄了几句。 Synonyms bromide(COMMENT)formal platitudedisapproving Boredom, tedium and boring things banality blandness boredom cabin fever crashing bore flatness frustration insipidness jejune longueur screed snooze snoozefest sterility stodginess stuffiness the same old thingidiom torpor turgid yawningly commonplace | American Dictionarycommonplace adjective us/ˈkɑm·ənˌpleɪs/ happening or seen frequently and so not considered special or unusual: Public financing for sports stadiums has become commonplace. Examples of commonplacecommonplace A closer look at these sections of the book reveals, though, that they are made up of commonplaces. Which cultural commonplaces or "repertoires" does she mobilize in order to endow herself with credibility? The study aimed to explore how people responded to and used commonplaces of sustainability drawn from environmental leaflets. In some cases, the authors' documentation helps to revise concepts and analyses acquired from previous literature and which have now become commonplaces. Both of these techniques are mid-fifteenth-century commonplaces, but worth highlighting in view of their recurrence in works discussed below. Horrors there are-but just those that are the commonplaces of war. The retrospective, textual or ientation of rhetor ic follows from the cardinal function that it accords to commonplaces (topos, locus communis). The commonplaces of courage and temperance prove popular once more. We discover that luxuries in an age of mainstream farming (freshwater fish, new vegetables, fruit, and herbs) became more widely enjoyed commonplaces in alternate periods. Collectively, they call into question many commonplaces in medieval historiography, especially in the domains of spirituality and literary criticism. Many of his utterances were, however, sermon commonplaces, to which parallels can be found in other contemporary preaching. The dialogue is exciting even today, after many of its personal revelations have been trivialized by becoming feminist commonplaces and slogans. Under the rain of success geniuses sprang forth like mushrooms throughout the fertile ground of the country in which commonplaces abound. Such studies of early modern ideology based around the evolution and manipulation of commonplaces will add greatly to our understanding of the mechanisms by which preaching shaped political opinion. He also considers the counter-effect of religion on classically influenced political discourse : biblical axioms provided authorities for anti-papal sentiments which classical commonplaces of prudence and honour could not ground. See all examples of commonplace 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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