外部链接:    leo英德   dict有道 百度搜索百度 google谷歌 google图片 wiki维基 百度百科百科   

 commonplace ['kɑmən`ples]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 寻常事, 老生常谈, 普通的东西

a. 平凡的, 普通的


  1. Many movies deal with commonplace themes.
    许多电影的主题很平庸。
  2. Soon it will be commonplace for people to travel to the moon.
    不用多久，人们到月球旅行会变成常见的事了。
  3. Jet travel is now a commonplace.
    乘喷射机旅行现在是寻常的事。


commonplace
[ noun ]
  1. a trite or obvious remark

    2. <noun.communication>
[ adj ]
  1. completely ordinary and unremarkable

    2. <adj.all>
    air travel has now become commonplace
    commonplace everyday activities
  2. not challenging; dull and lacking excitement

    3. <adj.all>
    an unglamorous job greasing engines
  3. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

    4. <adj.all>
    bromidic sermons
    his remarks were trite and commonplace
    hackneyed phrases
    a stock answer
    repeating threadbare jokes
    parroting some timeworn axiom
    the trite metaphor `hard as nails'


Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. t.
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general
heads. --Felton.


Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. i.
To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.]
--Bacon.


Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, a.
Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or
observation.


Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, n.
1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a
trite or customary remark; a platitude.

2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or
referred to.

Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our
fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by
way of commonplace. --Swift.

{Commonplace book}, a book in which records are made of
things to be remembered.

  1. Hijackings to Cuba were common in the late 1960s and early '70s, prompting the security measures now commonplace at airports.
  2. Freed from entanglement with the rest of ICI, it could start to plan mergers or joint ventures of a kind which have become commonplace in the world drug industry in recent years. This is one reason for the planned Pounds 1bn rights issue.
  3. Marshall, in an opinion joined by Brennan, said schools such as Westside must be careful to "effectively disassociate themselves from the religious speech that now may become commonplace in their facilities." Justice John Paul Stevens dissented.
  4. Nausea seems a commonplace symptom.
  5. While such conditions were commonplace in the 1940s, they're very rare today, making the law an anachronism.
  6. It is a sad and commonplace tale of modern morality, but it is also an uncommonly public royal scandal: Miss Ogilvy is 24th in line to the throne, her mother being the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
  7. This is extraordinary, even in an institution where unintended consequences are commonplace.
  8. In its suits, GE is challenging provisions that have become commonplace in acquisition agreements.
  9. 'The latest trend shows it will soon become commonplace to bundle communications add-ons with portable PCs.' Modems come in a number of shapes and sizes and are getting faster, smarter and cheaper.
  10. While the communist Chinese count it as an achievement to fill their roads with rusty bicycles, the Nationalists on Taiwan have made motor scooters and cars commonplace.
  11. Kidnappings and torture are commonplace.
  12. Rosenblatt's "`Day in the Life of the Soviet Union" went beyond the commonplace accounts of the country's political and military politics, treatment of political leaders, and customary assessments of dissident movements, the university said.
  13. But Laurie Everett, director of Descriptive Video Services predicted they will be commonplace before the turn of the century.
  14. Exaggeration perhaps, but Beirut airport has improved greatly since the days when hijacking, kidnapping, smuggling and closures seemed more commonplace than peaceful departures.
  15. Performance is becoming more important in setting executive pay, rather than simple seniority. Cuts in executive salaries and benefits are becoming commonplace in both manufacturing and financial services.
  16. Personal computers, using the same technology, wouldn't need to be wired together to act as a local network. Ultimately, when the technology becomes commonplace, people could be issued telephone numbers the way they are issued Social Security numbers.
  17. In a letter to Lilly Chairman Richard D. Wood, Mr. Dingell said the FDA report "confirmed that callous and cavalier business practices were commonplace" in the plant.
  18. Adds another, "How can you expect them to appreciate a computer which has the most sophisticated inventory-control program when stockpiling inventory is commonplace?"
  19. Before roads linked outback stations, drovers like Mr. McTaggart were commonplace.
  20. National patent laws differ so much from one EEC nation to the next that "lack of legal certainty and lack of sufficient protection is commonplace in the Community in this field," the commission said.
  21. "That's commonplace?" he said. "God save us all.
  22. Strikes and worker protests have become commonplace because of 217 percent annual inflation, 15 percent unemployment and austerity plans imposed to try to repay a $21 billion foreign debt.
  23. Sessions like yesterday's are beginning to seem almost commonplace, some traders added.
  24. Cuts in executive salaries of up to 15 per cent at companies such as Omron, the electrical machinery maker, have been commonplace.
  25. And the keeping of lists has become a grotesque commonplace.
  26. Moderate to strong earthquakes are commonplace throughout Alaska.
  27. The America just steamed through the Suez Canal into the Indian Ocean, one official said Wednesday, but such gaps in coverage will become commonplace starting this fall.
  28. "Fake brand name liquor is becoming so commonplace that liquor sellers are getting nervous, liquor buyers are getting nervous, even brown noses who buy liquor to curry favor are getting nervous," it said.
  29. In Japan, soy milk is so commonplace it is sold in vending machines, Appel noted.
  30. Since Eddie's surgery, the procedure has become commonplace. Bailey and his partner, Dr. Steven Gundry, have performed more than 60 transplants in young children.
commonplace
commonplace book
commonplaceer
commons
commonsense
commonsense physics
commonsense reasoning
commonsensible
commonsensical
commonsource small-si...
commonsource small-si...
commonstorage area
commonuser network
commonweal
commonwealth
Commonwealth Agricult...
commonwealth banks
commonwealth citizenship
Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth government
Commonwealth of Austr...
Commonwealth of England
Commonwealth of Indep...
Commonwealth of Nations
commonwealth preference
Commonwealth Preferen...
commonwealth preferen...
Commonwealth Preferen...
commonwealth preferen...
commorancy
commorant
commorientes
commotio
commotio cerebri
commotio labyrinthi
commotio retinae
commotio spinalis
commotio thoracis
commotion
commotion in price
commove
COMMS
commu'niqu'e
commulative decay spe...
commumication
commumication list
commun
communal
communal aerial
communal entropy
communal estate
communal facilities
communal forest
communal garden
communal habitat
communal household
communal land
communal marriage
communal nest-box
communal property
加入收藏 本地收藏 百度搜藏 QQ书签 美味书签 Google书签 Mister Wong
您正在访问的是
中国词汇量第二的英语词典
更多精彩，登录后发现......
验证码看不清，请点击刷新
  注册
 
 
2005 - 2024 Dict.li Online Dictionary