quotidian

英 [kwɒˈtɪdiən]

美 [kwoʊˈtɪdiən]

adj. 寻常的; 普通的; 司空见惯的

GRE

BNC.48525 / COCA.26235

牛津词典

adj.

寻常的；普通的；司空见惯的
ordinary; typical of what happens every day

柯林斯词典

ADJ-GRADED 日常的;普通的;寻常的
Quotidianactivities or experiences are basic, everyday activities or experiences.
1. ...the minutiae of their quotidian existence.
  他们日常生活中的琐事

双语例句

Was it not, on a more profound level, also a quotidian act of emasculation in a world that, let's face it, takes pleasure in grabbing you by the balls and not letting go?
从更深角度来看，这不也是一种每天削弱男子气的行为吗？让我们面对现实吧，这个世界以抓住你的睾丸不让你走为乐。
Such quotidian decisions test a mental ability called cognitive control, the capacity to maintain focus on an important choice while ignoring other impulses.
这类日常决策测试的是一种名为认知控制的精神能力，这种能力能让你将注意力保持在重要的选择上，而忽略其他的冲动。
The texts mainly deal with the vivid quotidian communication.
课文以日常交际为主，生动活泼。
Hence, we live in a world where extreme is ordinary, where radical is quotidian, exceptional is pedestrian.
由此以来，我们生活在这样一个世界：极度等于平凡，极端等于普通，非凡等于一般。
It didn't seem like a lot, for this guy who'd seen so much, and who& to whom the killing of a goat must have seemed such a quotidian experience, still found it in himself to try to protect me.
对于这样一个见多识广的人来说，这是小菜一碟，杀一只羊简直是家常便饭，但是我发现他内心上想保护我。
But the artist willfully left out the quotidian, the bustling harbor, instead shaping the landscape to his own imaginative needs.
但是这位艺术家任性地抛弃了写实的生活琐事和熙熙攘攘的港口，反而让风景在笔下迎合自己的想像需求。
The shuttle was supposed to be a reusable truck that would make the business of putting people into orbit quotidian.
这种穿梭机原本应是可以反复使用的运输工具，从事将人员送到太空轨道平常位置。
To step outside our quotidian experience of time and to start to consider a deeper timescale.
站在我们司空见惯的时间观之外，开始考虑一个更深一层的时间跨度。
This is Art which one would indeed like to hang at home or in the office, and let the imagination runs as a pause from the quotidian cares of everyday life.
这是人们真正想挂在家中或办公室里的艺术，让想象的洪流奔腾起来，为我们波澜不惊的日常生活注入一些新颖且悦意的顿点。
One is the state before easel; the other is the one in quotidian life.
一是画架前的状态，二是生活中的状态。