[N-COUNT 可数名词](尤指城镇的)步行者,行人 A pedestrian is a person who is walking, especially in a town or city, rather than travelling in a vehicle.
[oft N n]
In Los Angeles a pedestrian is a rare spectacle...
在洛杉矶很少见到步行者。
More than a third of all pedestrian injuries are to children.
所有受伤的行人中有1/3以上是儿童。
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]平庸的;乏味的;平淡无奇的 If you describe something as pedestrian, you mean that it is ordinary and not at all interesting.
[disapproval]
His style is so pedestrian that the book becomes a real bore...
他的文风十分平庸,那本书乏味至极。
I drove home contemplating my own more pedestrian lifestyle.
我开车回家,一路上思考着自己更为乏味的生活方式。
Oxford
ped·es·trian/pəˈdestriən; NAmEpəˈdestriən/
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pedestrianpedestriansnouna person walking in the street and not travelling in a vehicle 行人;步行者☞compare
motorist
adjective1[only before noun ]used by or for the use of pedestrians;connected with pedestrians行人使用的;行人的◆pedestrian areas步行区◆Pedestrian accidents are down by 5%.行人受伤事故下降了 5%。2without any imagination or excitement; dull 缺乏想像的;乏味的;无趣的SYN
someone who is walking, especially along a street or other place used by cars → motorist
pedestrian1 noun
pedestrian2 adjective
pedestrianpedestrian2 adjective
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1ordinary and uninteresting and without any imagination: a painting that is pedestrian and unimaginative a rather pedestrian student2[only before noun] relating to pedestrians or used by pedestrians: pedestrian traffic a pedestrian walkway
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