mundane

英 [mʌn'deɪn] 美 [mʌn'deɪn]

• adj. 平凡的；世俗的；世界的

详尽释义

adj. 形容词

1. 世俗的
2. 世界的
3. 平凡的
4. 单调的
5. 宇宙的
6. 现世的
7. 尘世间的
8. 庸俗的
9. 通俗的
10. 平淡的
11. 日常的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. found in the ordinary course of events;

   "a placid everyday scene"
   "it was a routine day"
   "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"
   

2. concerned with the world or worldly matters;

   "mundane affairs"
   "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"
   

3. belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly;

   "not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind"
   "so terrene a being as himself"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. I lead a pretty mundane life; nothing interesting ever happens to me.
   我生活平凡
2. Even the most mundane things can become objects of beauty in French eyes.
   即使是最平凡的事物，在法国人的眼中也是美丽的。
3. The book is full of complicated and sometimes mundane details.
   书中充满了复杂,有时甚至是世俗的细节。
4. Each one is contained in a spherical shell surrounded by layers of elemental matter that mark the boundary between mundane space and the unlimited spiritual world.
   每个宇宙被物质元素构成的壳所包裹着，这些层层的壳就是物质世界与无限的灵性世界的分界。

经典引文

• Jung's own sacrifice of mundane goals was the abandonment of his academic career.

  出自： A. Storr

• We all went gloriously off to fight our war, leaving behind our families to get on with their mundane lives.

  出自： Rachel Anderson

• Her daily life was very mundane.

  出自： D. Madden

近反义词

【近义词】

• boring 令人厌烦的
• earthly 地球的
• fleshly 肉体的
• outward 向外的
• practical 明智的
• routine 例行公事
• everyday 日常的
• ordinary 平凡的
• dull 呆滞的
• commonplace 平凡的
• unexciting 不令人兴奋的...
• humdrum 单调的
• dreary 沉闷的
• monotonous 单调的
• tedious 单调乏味的
• uninteresting 无趣味的
• banal 陈腐的
• terrene 土的
• unremarkable 平凡的
• workaday 工作日的
• terrestrial 陆地的
• quotidian 每日的

【反义词】

• heavenly 天上的