Ordinary

(noun.) (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields.

(noun.) an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel.

(noun.) a judge of a probate court.

(noun.) a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death.

(noun.) the expected or commonplace condition or situation; 'not out of the ordinary'.

(adj.) not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; 'ordinary everyday objects'; 'ordinary decency'; 'an ordinary day'; 'an ordinary wine' .

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• It's like an ordinary tomorrow. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• For once in his life, the great Cuff stood speechless with amazement, like an ordinary man. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The surplus water is best removed by centrifugal pumps, since sand and sticks which would clog the valves of an ordinary pump are passed along without difficulty by the rotating wheel. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• But I had acted enough for one evening; it was time I retired into myself and my ordinary life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In ordinary talk they might have passed unheeded; but following on her prolonged pause they acquired a special meaning. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The railways reduced this journey for any ordinary traveller to less than forty-eight hours. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This is a determinant which burrows beneath our ordinary classification of progressive and reactionary to the spiritual habits of a period. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The motion, compared with that of an ordinary land engine, was thus inverted. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In the valley, near the Acropolis, (the square-topped hill before spoken of,) Athens itself could be vaguely made out with an ordinary lorgnette. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The machine he built looked like an ordinary stage-coach on four wheels. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The ordinary course of action fails to give adequate stimulus to emotion and imagination. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• This, which he had intended to make more of the ordinary type, he gradually brings round to the other or ideal form. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• They seem for the most part shabby in attire, dingy of linen, lovers of billiards and brandy, and cigars and greasy ordinaries. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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