英:[ˈɔːdnrinəs]
美:[ ˈɔːrdnerinəs]
英:[ˈɔːdnrinəs]
美:[ ˈɔːrdnerinəs]
adjective
of a kind to be expected in the normal order of events : routine, usual
an ordinary day
of common quality, rank, or ability
an ordinary teenager
deficient in quality : poor, inferior
ordinary wine
having or constituting immediate or original jurisdictionalso: belonging to such jurisdiction
noun
the regular or customary condition or course of things—usually used in the phrase out of the ordinary
We haven't done anything out of the ordinary.
a prelate exercising original jurisdiction over a specified territory or group
The ordinary of a diocese is a bishop.
a judge of probate in some states of the U.S.
often capitalized the parts of the Mass that do not vary from day to day
The "Our Father" is part of the ordinary of the Mass.
British a meal served to all comers at a fixed price
chiefly British a tavern or eating house serving regular meals
a common heraldic charge (such as the bend) of simple form (see charge entry 2 sense 7a)
Adjective Middle English ordinarie, from Latin ordinarius, from ordin-, ordo order Noun Middle English ordinarie, from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin ordinarius, from Latin ordinarius, adjective
The first known use of ordinary was in the 14th century
ordinary1 of 2noun
regular or usual condition or course of things
nothing out of the ordinary
British a meal served to any person at a fixed price
chiefly British a restaurant serving regular meals
ordinary2 of 2adjective
to be expected : normal, usual
ordinary problems
neither good nor bad : average
an ordinary person
1 What "staggered" him was not so much the obvious monstrosity of it, but the familiarity of the environment, horrific in its ordinariness.
2 They are relatively normal, functioning people: Lloyd is more outgoing and optimistic than Hill; Hill is cleverer and better at making intuitive mystery-solving leaps – their everyday ordinariness is their main characteristic.
3 It was becoming evident that the main attraction of the peninsula is its small-town ordinariness, a change from our more complex urban ordinariness back home.
4 The staggering design ambition balances out the plot’s affecting, relatable ordinariness, which kicks in a couple of decades after the Lumens settle in and open a store that ignites a thriving fire community.
5 The effect was like that of a séance, and the sinister edge was only augmented by Lustmord's appearance in a cosy fleece and avuncular spectacles – the outward ordinariness of the truly evil.
6 Hollywood comedies hardly exist anymore because Hollywood ordinariness doesn’t exist anymore.
7 “Fargo” finds humor in the stunning ordinariness of Midwestern small towns, where people are uniformly even tempered and mild, bringing Jell-O salads to potlucks and saying “aw jeez” and “heck” when bad things happen.
8 The strength of the writing lies in a kind of poetic ordinariness, but occasionally it feels a tad too mundane.
9 The outsized impact of mass shootings emanates from the sheer ordinariness of their circumstances.
10 The ordinariness of the world that Zumas imagines is perhaps the most unsettling aspect of “Red Clocks,” her second novel.
11 After breaking up with Mr. Dill in 2006, Mr. Roberts settled into a life that seemed to mirror the increasing ordinariness of gay men in America.
12 A lot of Coronation Street's ordinariness that used to characterise the show has now gone.
13 There’s no need to invoke any special parapsychological abilities; the ordinariness of apparently predictive dreams does not need any ex plaining.
14 It was an ordinary lunch of soup and a sandwich.
那是一顿平淡的午餐:一份汤,一份三明治。
15 The inside of the house is rather ordinary.
房子的内部相当平淡无奇。
16 It’s also a disquisition on the ordinariness of good and evil, on how people in a particular time and place encounter and partake of both and go on with their lives, no matter what.
17 Despite its novelty for many gay people, “ordinariness” has long been invoked in efforts to sell gay rights to America.
18 What seems to have set Adele apart is her apparent ordinariness, bar that incredible voice.
19 My wife thought our guide was strange, but he seemed perfectly ordinary to me.
20 Indeed his ordinariness was the source of the guilt.
1 平常