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单词 workaday
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Definition of workaday in English:

workaday

adjective ˈwəːkədeɪˈwərkəˌdeɪ
  • 1Not special, unusual, or interesting; ordinary.

    平凡的;普通的;平淡无奇的

    your humble workaday PC

    你那台低档又普通的个人电脑。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • On a workaday basis, it doesn't matter much, to be honest.
    • An affectionate arm around the shoulders, a warm and reassuring hug, a gentle touch upon the arm, even just an understanding glance, are enough to drive away the blues and kindle hope in a heart beset with workaday cares.
    • But she also appreciates her surroundings and her community, and looks for her place among the sloping streets and workaday routines.
    • At first glance, shampoo is one of the most functional and workaday elements in your beauty routine.
    • In those days a whole host of pots could be found in gardens, including long-toms and workaday pots as well as rhubarb and kale-forcing pots, all made from terracotta.
    • The interpenetration of the worldly and the otherworldly, the mundane and the spiritual, the workaday and the worshipful, enrich our folklore as well as our classics.
    • Though they share nothing in upbringing, they have already found that they have a workaday attitude to showbiz in common.
    • The routine, workaday books that keep rolling off printing machines and that one lives and works with today share very little of that quality, or that sensibility.
    • But they are vastly outnumbered by packs of a more workaday character.
    • Somehow Ludwig seemed to have succeeded in functioning in the mundane, workaday world and still keep a spiritual perspective on matters.
    • Though in the ordinary, workaday world, you find yourself with not a friend about you, step into the other world, and a universe of friends, this great, glorious brotherhood, will be there for you.
    • White opened up at a ferocious pace, hitting nicks from all angles, powering balls to the deep court on either hand and slamming in three-wall-nick shots at such regular intervals that it came to look like a common workaday shot.
    • Our fear, guilt, and, occasionally, even jealousy over the way the elderly are separated from workaday reality has led us to think about the ‘golden years’ as something that takes place in another realm.
    • Meanwhile, in the workaday world, women receive just 76 cents for every dollar paid to men for comparable jobs.
    • Then there is the stuff of workaday journalism, rather like an ordinary meal one has to plough through, a chore worthwhile only for whatever nutritional value there may be.
    • Smither's patient way of painting, however - moulding one slow layer over another - served to elevate humble workaday household items - cups, plates - to epic and monumental status.
    • The old pilgrim paths sometimes beckon to us, teasing us from the routine of workaday lives with promises of spiritual glory and glimmers of the Divine, however we interpret that deeply human need.
    • First, I had yearned to escape the workaday world where I went about my quotidian tasks and routines and travel to an isolated place filled with natural beauty and silence for my writers retreat.
    • Some people think that the idea of a fairy tale romance is unrealistic, that it sets too high a standard and leaves you feeling disappointed in real-life, workaday relationships.
    • It's a modest, workaday coffee we routinely serve at home but sludge it ain't.
    Synonyms
    ordinary, average, run-of-the-mill, middle-of-the-road, mainstream, conventional, unremarkable, unexceptional, unpretentious, plain, simple, undistinguished, nondescript, characterless, colourless, commonplace, humdrum, mundane, unmemorable, unspectacular, pedestrian, prosaic
    routine, everyday, day-to-day, quotidian
    North American garden-variety
    informal bog-standard, vanilla, plain vanilla, nothing to write home about, a dime a dozen
    British informal common or garden, two a penny
    North American informal ornery
  • 2Relating to work or one's job.

    (与)工作(有关)的

    the workaday world of timecards and performance reviews
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The farmer performs workaday human movement: plain, uneventful, and unaccountably touching.
    • Peering into their world was a welcome counterpoint to the workaday routine of her own life.
    • The question is whether we can find secreted in the language of a particular text the bustling, workaday life of the common people.
    • This agency has become the official applier of yellow, smiley-faced stickers on an ugly economy that is stiffing America's workaday majority.

Definition of workaday in US English:

workaday

adjectiveˈwərkəˌdeɪˈwərkəˌdā
  • 1Not special, unusual, or interesting in any way; ordinary.

    平凡的;普通的;平淡无奇的

    your humble workaday PC

    你那台低档又普通的个人电脑。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But they are vastly outnumbered by packs of a more workaday character.
    • The routine, workaday books that keep rolling off printing machines and that one lives and works with today share very little of that quality, or that sensibility.
    • It's a modest, workaday coffee we routinely serve at home but sludge it ain't.
    • Then there is the stuff of workaday journalism, rather like an ordinary meal one has to plough through, a chore worthwhile only for whatever nutritional value there may be.
    • But she also appreciates her surroundings and her community, and looks for her place among the sloping streets and workaday routines.
    • On a workaday basis, it doesn't matter much, to be honest.
    • Some people think that the idea of a fairy tale romance is unrealistic, that it sets too high a standard and leaves you feeling disappointed in real-life, workaday relationships.
    • Meanwhile, in the workaday world, women receive just 76 cents for every dollar paid to men for comparable jobs.
    • Our fear, guilt, and, occasionally, even jealousy over the way the elderly are separated from workaday reality has led us to think about the ‘golden years’ as something that takes place in another realm.
    • An affectionate arm around the shoulders, a warm and reassuring hug, a gentle touch upon the arm, even just an understanding glance, are enough to drive away the blues and kindle hope in a heart beset with workaday cares.
    • White opened up at a ferocious pace, hitting nicks from all angles, powering balls to the deep court on either hand and slamming in three-wall-nick shots at such regular intervals that it came to look like a common workaday shot.
    • Somehow Ludwig seemed to have succeeded in functioning in the mundane, workaday world and still keep a spiritual perspective on matters.
    • First, I had yearned to escape the workaday world where I went about my quotidian tasks and routines and travel to an isolated place filled with natural beauty and silence for my writers retreat.
    • In those days a whole host of pots could be found in gardens, including long-toms and workaday pots as well as rhubarb and kale-forcing pots, all made from terracotta.
    • Though in the ordinary, workaday world, you find yourself with not a friend about you, step into the other world, and a universe of friends, this great, glorious brotherhood, will be there for you.
    • At first glance, shampoo is one of the most functional and workaday elements in your beauty routine.
    • The interpenetration of the worldly and the otherworldly, the mundane and the spiritual, the workaday and the worshipful, enrich our folklore as well as our classics.
    • The old pilgrim paths sometimes beckon to us, teasing us from the routine of workaday lives with promises of spiritual glory and glimmers of the Divine, however we interpret that deeply human need.
    • Though they share nothing in upbringing, they have already found that they have a workaday attitude to showbiz in common.
    • Smither's patient way of painting, however - moulding one slow layer over another - served to elevate humble workaday household items - cups, plates - to epic and monumental status.
    Synonyms
    ordinary, average, run-of-the-mill, middle-of-the-road, mainstream, conventional, unremarkable, unexceptional, unpretentious, plain, simple, undistinguished, nondescript, characterless, colourless, commonplace, humdrum, mundane, unmemorable, unspectacular, pedestrian, prosaic
    1. 1.1 Relating to work or one's job.
      (与)工作(有关)的
      the workaday world of timecards and performance reviews
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The question is whether we can find secreted in the language of a particular text the bustling, workaday life of the common people.
      • This agency has become the official applier of yellow, smiley-faced stickers on an ugly economy that is stiffing America's workaday majority.
      • Peering into their world was a welcome counterpoint to the workaday routine of her own life.
      • The farmer performs workaday human movement: plain, uneventful, and unaccountably touching.
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