Commonplace

(adj.) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; 'an unglamorous job greasing engines' .

(adj.) completely ordinary and unremarkable; 'air travel has now become commonplace'; 'commonplace everyday activities' .

杰西整理

• He was very earnest, and earnestness was always rather ridiculous, commonplace, to her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Commonplace young ladies can be quite as hard as commonplace young gentlemen--quite as worldly and selfish. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• A few commonplace observations will help to explain its action. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Except for Napoleon it seems to have been a thoroughly commonplace, hungry family. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A very commonplace little murder, said he. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• It could lynch one as a moral monster, when as a matter of fact his ideals were commonplace; it could proclaim one a great benefactor when in truth he was a rather dull old gentleman. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was a perfectly commonplace letter--but it had one excellent effect on me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• There still remained an arrest to be effected, but what were these commonplace rogues that he should soil his hands with them? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• An other piece of commonplace knowledge--the cardinal points of the compass--may be accepted, likewise, without inquiry or without recognition of its importance. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Machiavelli's ethics are commonplace enough. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• And this man I bent over--this commonplace, quiet stranger--how had he become involved in the web of horror? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Yet there is nothing strange or particularly disheartening about this commonplace observation: to expect anything else is to hope that a nation will lift itself by its own bootstraps. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• So full is the daily life of these things, and so much of a necessity have they all become, that their commonplace character dismisses them from conspicuous notice. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Your Wellington is the most humdrum of commonplace martinets, whose slow, mechanical movements are further cramped by an ignorant home government. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He was an elderly man, thin, demure, and commonplace--by no means the conception one forms of a Russian nobleman. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• They were familiar; many of them commonplaces--sun, moon, planets, weight, distance, mass, square of numbers. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He was nervous and apparently in quite good spirits, chattering the conventional commonplaces. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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