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Pedestrian Walking Pi'destriən N.步行者 Adj.徒步的,呆板的,通俗的 Traveling Foot Angry

英语单词 pedestrian
英美音标 [pi'destriən]
中文释义 n.步行者
adj.徒步的,呆板的,通俗的
vocabulary简明 A pedestrian is someone traveling by foot. If you're walking, you might get angry at the drivers who don't stop so you can cross the street. But if you're driving, you might fight the urge to run those annoying pedestrians over!
vocabulary扩展 Pedestrian comes from the Latin pedester meaning "going on foot" but also "plain." As a noun, it's someone walking around — sidewalks are for pedestrians. As an adjective it means "lacking wit or imagination." If someone calls your new poem pedestrian, they mean it's dull. If you want to impress your friends while also making them feel worthless, mutter "these people are SO pedestrian," at a party, loud enough for everyone to hear.
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[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。

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