mundane

• adj. 世俗的，平凡的；世界的，宇宙的

1. 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"- Anita Diamant

2. concerned with the world or worldly matters;

"mundane affairs"

"he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"

3. 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"

It has been available even in the most mundane of life situations to show you right from wrong,good from bad,friend from foe.

出自-2016年考研翻译原文

a mundane task/job

平凡的任务 / 职业

牛津词典

I lead a pretty mundane existence.

我过着相当平淡的生活。

牛津词典

On a more mundane level, can we talk about the timetable for next week?

说点儿实际的吧，我们能谈谈下周的时间安排吗？

牛津词典

Be willing to do even mundane tasks.

即使平凡的工作也乐意承担。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the mundane realities of life.

平淡的现实生活

柯林斯高阶英语词典

It'sounds mundane, but it is a licence to print money.

这听起来没什么, 但是这可是一个盈利的好策略.

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It is good as far as the mundane world isconcerned, but good asas your interiority isconcerned.

这些东西,对世俗世界而言是有益的, 但对你的内在生命而言毫无用处.

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Yes, airing a quilt can also be so dirty, mundane and unromantic.

是的, 晒被也可以如此肮脏琐碎毫不浪漫.

中国文学部分

Many of the subjects dealt with in the letters are about mundane domestic matters.

信中多是家常琐事.

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The same technology can also be used to simulate the more mundane environment of an office.

同样还可以应用这种科技来模拟一个办公室内更加寻常的环境.

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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.

《简明英汉词典》

I found the job very mundane.

我觉得这工作非常单调.

《简明英汉词典》

Peace comes through rising above the mundane and seeing the larger picture.

超越世俗、看到更宽广的图景,藉此和平就会到来.

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Our minds are taken up with far more mundane things.

我们的头脑充满了现实的问题.

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The " pure'scientist often assumes that the application of knowledge is mundane.

有些从事于 “ 纯理论 ” 学科的科学家常常傲慢地把应用科学问题贬低为世俗的雕虫小技.

辞典例句

Your work is just going to be mundane triviality.

大多是一些平凡而琐碎的工作,但平凡里含着伟大,琐碎中常有创新.

期刊摘选

But there has to be faster way of doing things than through all those mundane practices.

不过除了那些令人感到无趣的练习以外,一定有一种能迅速的让一个人更快的学习.

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We shall first discuss a more mundane version of the twin paradox.

我们将先讨论孪生佯谬的一个比较通俗的形式.

辞典例句

On the mundane level, the 8 th house deals with debts , loans, joint finances, legacies and inheritances.

于世俗上, 第八宫掌管赌博,欠债, 共同投资, 遗产及继承权.

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The animals listed in this bestiary range from the mundane to the fantastic.

这个动物寓言集中列举了各种普通的和奇妙的动物.

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A grasp of mundane affairs is genuine knowledge; an understanding of worldly wisdom is true learning.

世事洞明皆学问, 人情练达即文章.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Even mundane issues can present hazards, such as how much to lean on administrative support.

即便是一些微不足道的小事,也会导致危机, 比如说多大程度的依赖于行政支持.

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Marosi uses his early childhood experience to transform the mundane into spectacular, bold imagery.

他运用这些儿时的回忆和体验把现实景物转化成大胆精彩的想象.

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The game is about mundane tasks which we all deal with daily.

这个游戏进行的是一些日常生活中的事,这正是我们每天都在做的事.

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Even those mundane, hateful, plastic grocery bags can become a bridge stronger than anyone imagined.

甚至是那些平凡, 可恨的塑料购物袋也可以变为一个桥梁而且任何人都没想到可以如此坚固.

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The work will be less mundane, and you'll have fewer hiring headaches.

这样工作起来就不会那么单调, 而且你雇人时也不会再头疼了.

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Wisdom The quality of understanding a mage possesses about the balance of magic and the mundane.

智慧:法师所拥有的在魔法和世俗之间保持平衡的理解能力.

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Life without aspiration, dream, fantasy is like mundane existence with only skeleton.

生活若剥去理想 、 梦想 、 幻想,那生命便只是一堆空架子.

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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.

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. I found the job very mundane.

我觉得这工作非常单调.

来自《简明英汉词典》

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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.).