| 英语单词 | mundane |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [mʌn'deɪn] 美 [mʌn'deɪn] |
| 中文释义 | adj.平凡的;世俗的;世界的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Even the most mundane things can become objects of beauty in French eyes. (2) The book is full of complicated and sometimes mundane details. (3) Each one is contained in a spherical shell surrounded by layers of elemental matter that mark the boundary between mundane space and the unlimited spiritual world. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 即使是最平凡的事物,在法国人的眼中也是美丽的。 (2) 书中充满了复杂,有时甚至是世俗的细节。 (3) 每个宇宙被物质元素构成的壳所包裹着,这些层层的壳就是物质世界与无限的灵性世界的分界。 |
| vocabulary简明 | An ordinary, unexciting thing can be called mundane: "Superman hid his heroic feats by posing as his mundane alter ego, Clark Kent." |
| vocabulary扩展 | Mundane, from the Latin word mundus, "world," originally referred to things on earth. Such things were supposed to be uninteresting when compared to the delights of Heaven; hence the word's present meaning. Writing about reality TV shows, a Newsweek writer opined, "In reality bizarro-world, the mundane is presented as the spectacular" — in other words, people's everyday routines are now televised as entertainment. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]普通的;平凡的;单调的 Something that is mundane is very ordinary and not at all interesting or unusual. [
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