mundane是什么意思_mundane怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

found in the ordinary course of events;"a placid everyday scene"
"it was a routine day"
"there"s nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"

concerned with the world or worldly matters;"mundane affairs"
"he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"

belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly;"not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind"
"so terrene a being as himself"

中英词源

mundane 单调的，平凡的

来自拉丁语mundanus,世界的，世俗的，非神性的，来自mundus,宇宙，世界，秩序，整洁。引申词义单调的，平凡的。该词基本词义为干净的，整洁的，为拉丁学者为翻译希腊语kosmos 赋予的新词义，可能来自PIE*meu,清洗，冲洗，词源同emanate,marine,mere.词义演变比较 cosmos,cosmetic.

mundane (adj.): mid-15c., "of this world," from Old French mondain "of this world, worldly, earthly, secular;" also "pure, clean; noble, generous" (12c.), from Late Latin mundanus "belonging to the world" (as distinct from the Church), in classical Latin "a citizen of the world, cosmopolite," from mundus "universe, world," literally "clean, elegant"; used as a translation of Greek kosmos (see cosmos) in its Pythagorean sense of "the physical universe" (the original sense of the Greek word was "orderly arrangement"). Latin mundus also was used of a woman"s "ornaments, dress," and is related to the adjective mundus "clean, elegant" (used of women"s dress, etc.). Related: Mundanely. The mundane era was the chronology that began with the supposed epoch of the Creation (famously reckoned as 4004 B.C.E.).

词态变化

权威造句

1. Her London life was sedate, almost mundane.: 她在伦敦的生活平淡无奇，几乎有些枯燥。

2. It was hard to return to mundane matters after such excitement.: 经验过这种紧张的情形,很难再回来做例行的事务.

3. I found the job very mundane.: 我觉得这工作非常单调.

4. A paint finish can transform something everyday and mundane into something more elaborate.: 油漆罩面能够使普通而平凡的东西看上去更加精致。

5. It"s an attitude that turns the mundane into some-thing rather more interesting and exciting.: 这种态度会将平淡的事情变得更加有趣而令人激动。

近反义词

boring 令人厌烦的

earthly 地球的

fleshly 肉体的

outward 向外的

practical 明智的

routine 例行公事

everyday 日常的

ordinary 平凡的

dull 呆滞的

commonplace 平凡的

unexciting 不令人兴奋的...

humdrum 单调的

dreary 沉闷的

monotonous 单调的

tedious 单调乏味的

uninteresting 无趣味的

banal 陈腐的

terrene 土的

unremarkable 平凡的

workaday 工作日的

terrestrial 陆地的

quotidian 每日的

相似短语

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单词分析

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记忆方法

1. mund- (谐音“忙的”---忙碌的世俗世界，谐音“茫的”----茫茫宇宙、茫茫众生、茫茫人海，谐音“芒德”----芒德是个凡夫俗子)。
2. 谐音“蛮单哦”-----蛮单调的、蛮平凡的、蛮世俗的。
3. 谐音“蛮大呢”-----这个世界、宇宙真的是蛮大的呢。

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