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workaday是什么意思

workaday

英 ['wɜːkədeɪ] 美 ['wɝkə'de]

adj. 工作日的；日常的；普通的，平凡的

英文词源

workaday: c. 1200, werkedei (n.), "day designated for labor rather than religious observance or rest," from Old Norse virkr dagr "working day;" see work (n.) + day. It passed into an adjective 16c.

双语例句

1. Enough of fantasy, the workaday world awaited him.: 天马行空地幻想了一番之后，等待他的是平淡无奇的现实世界。

2. This is a workaday newspaper.: 这是一份枯燥乏味(或:普通)的报纸.

3. Imagine, Tibbs suggests, that we push grimy workaday industrial processes toward the character of biological processes.: 提布斯启发说, 想象一下, 我们推动肮脏的普通工业生产方式向具有生物特性的加工方式转化.

4. Instead it dawns on a familiar, workaday place, still in need of groceries and sewage disposal.: 相反,它照在了一个熟悉的平庸的地方, 这个地方仍旧需要食品杂货和污水排放.

5. It dawns on a familiar, workaday place, still in need of groceries and sewage disposal.: 它洒在一个司空见惯, 平凡庸碌的地方, 一个仍然无法摆脱食品杂货,污水处理的地方.