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单词 commonplace
释义
commonplace
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒm.ən.pleɪs/us
/ˈkɑː.mən.pleɪs/
happeningoften or oftenseenorexperiencedand so notconsideredto bespecial:
平常的；常见的；普通的；普遍的
Electriccarsareincreasinglycommonplace.电动汽车越来越普及了。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
happening or seen often
  • commonWorking from home has become increasingly common.
  • rifeViolence was rife throughout the city.
  • commonplaceEarthquakes are a commonplace occurrence in California.
  • be two/ten a pennyUKGood designers are two a penny, but great designers are worth their weight in gold.
  • be a dime a dozenUSThose cheap little metal cars are a dime a dozen. You can get them anywhere.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Plain and ordinary
  • as it comesidiom
  • austere
  • austerely
  • austerity
  • average Joe
  • homeliness
  • homely
  • homespun
  • homey
  • humble
  • run-of-the-mill
  • severe
  • severely
  • simple
  • something/nothing to shout aboutidiom
  • unoriginal
  • unostentatiously
  • unremarkable
  • well trodden
  • workaday
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commonplace
noun[C]
formal
uk
/ˈkɒm.ən.pleɪs/us
/ˈkɑː.mən.pleɪs/
aboringremarkthat is used very often and does not have muchmeaning:
陈词滥调；寒暄客套；老生常谈
Weexchangedcommonplaces about theweatherovercupsoftea.我们喝了几杯茶，就天气方面的话题寒暄了几句。
Synonyms
bromide(COMMENT)formal
platitudedisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Boredom, tedium and boring things
  • banality
  • blandness
  • boredom
  • bromide
  • cabin fever
  • crashing bore
  • flatness
  • frustration
  • insipidness
  • jejune
  • longueur
  • screed
  • snooze
  • snoozefest
  • sterility
  • stodginess
  • stuffiness
  • tediousness
  • treadmill
  • yawn
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(Definition ofcommonplacefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

commonplace| American Dictionary

commonplace
adjective
us
/ˈkɑm·ənˌpleɪs/
happeningorseenfrequentlyand so notconsideredspecialorunusual:
Publicfinancingforsportsstadiumshasbecomecommonplace.
(Definition ofcommonplacefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A closer look at these sections of the book reveals, though, that they are made up of commonplaces.
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Which cultural commonplaces or "repertoires" does she mobilize in order to endow herself with credibility?
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The study aimed to explore how people responded to and used commonplaces of sustainability drawn from environmental leaflets.
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In some cases, the authors' documentation helps to revise concepts and analyses acquired from previous literature and which have now become commonplaces.
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Both of these techniques are mid-fifteenth-century commonplaces, but worth highlighting in view of their recurrence in works discussed below.
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Horrors there are-but just those that are the commonplaces of war.
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The retrospective, textual or ientation of rhetor ic follows from the cardinal function that it accords to commonplaces (topos, locus communis).
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The commonplaces of courage and temperance prove popular once more.
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We discover that luxuries in an age of mainstream farming (freshwater fish, new vegetables, fruit, and herbs) became more widely enjoyed commonplaces in alternate periods.
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Collectively, they call into question many commonplaces in medieval historiography, especially in the domains of spirituality and literary criticism.
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Many of his utterances were, however, sermon commonplaces, to which parallels can be found in other contemporary preaching.
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The dialogue is exciting even today, after many of its personal revelations have been trivialized by becoming feminist commonplaces and slogans.
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Under the rain of success geniuses sprang forth like mushrooms throughout the fertile ground of the country in which commonplaces abound.
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Such studies of early modern ideology based around the evolution and manipulation of commonplaces will add greatly to our understanding of the mechanisms by which preaching shaped political opinion.
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He also considers the counter-effect of religion on classically influenced political discourse : biblical axioms provided authorities for anti-papal sentiments which classical commonplaces of prudence and honour could not ground.
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