commonplace

['kɔmənpleis]

adj. 平凡的, 陈腐的
n. 常事, 老生常谈, 普通的东西

n.[C]

1. 司空见惯的事

Jet travel is now a commonplace.

乘喷气式飞机旅行现在是寻常的事。

2. 老生常谈; 陈词滥调

3. 【古】备忘札记

a.

平淡无味的; 平凡的, 普通的; 陈腐的

The fashionable remarks of today often become the commonplace expressions of tomorrow.

今天流行的时髦话明天常常成为陈腐之言。

词形变化

名词复数：commonplaces

词义辨析

同义:

a.平凡的, 普通的

ordinary  usual  general  undistinguished  mediocre  pedestrian  workaday  run-of-the-mill  humdrum  average  everyday  typical  standard  routine  regular  stock

a.陈腐的

trite  hackneyed  platitudinous  bromidic  stock  stereotyped  trivial  banal  matter-of-fact  prosy  threadbare  worn-out  not new  old-hat  moth-eaten

n.客套话, 口头禅, 常事

cliche  platitude  old maxim  stereotype  trite saying  banality  twaddle  chestnut  

同义参见:

accustomed  practical  mere  well-known  

反义参见:

rare  outstanding  

英英释义

名词 commonplace:

a trite or obvious remark

同义词：platitude, cliche, banality, bromide

形容词 commonplace:

completely ordinary and unremarkable

not challenging; dull and lacking excitement

同义词：humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

同义词：banal, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

补充

commonplacecommonplace英:[ˈkɔmənpleis] 美:[ˈkɑmənˌples]adj.1.普通的, 平庸的He is a commonplace person.他是个凡夫俗子。Soon it will be commonplace for men to travel to the moon.人们去月球旅行很快就会成为常事。n.1.陈腔滥调, 老生常谈He uttered a few commonplaces about peace.他泛泛地谈了几句关于和平的话。2.寻常的事物, 平常的东西Jet travel is now a commonplace.乘喷气式飞机旅行现在是寻常的事。

例句

1. Air travel has now become commonplace.乘飞机旅行现在已经司空见惯了。 2. It is commonplace for snipers to open fire on aid convoys.狙击手向救援车队开枪的事很常见。 3. a commonplace remark老生常谈 4. It's become a commonplace to see people collapsing from hunger in the streets.人们饿倒街头的事屡见不鲜。 5. It is a commonplace to say that Northern Ireland is a backwater in modern Europe.有关北爱尔兰是现代欧洲的一潭死水的说法已经是陈词滥调了。 6. unemployment was commonplace in his trade.在他的行业里，失业是很平常的。 7. the usual commonplace remarks.老生常谈。 8. bombing has become almost a commonplace of public life there.在那里，轰炸几乎已经成为公众生活中的一件平常事了。 9. it is a commonplace to talk of the young being alienated.谈论年轻人移情别恋已是老生常谈。 10. Foreign travel has become commonplace in recent years.最近几年到国外旅游已司空见惯。 11. Drug use has become commonplace at rock concerts.在摇滚音乐会上，吸食毒品已司空见惯。 12. He photographed commonplace objects like lamps and bowls.他拍摄如灯和碗这样的常见物品。 13. "Much of her writing was commonplace [=unoriginal, unremarkable] and boring."她的文章很多是老生常谈，毫无新意。 14. It is a commonplace that we only use a small part of our brain's capacity.我们人类只使用我们大脑容量的一小部分，这已不是什么新鲜论点了。 15. We now accept cell phones and laptop computers as commonplaces of everyday life.我们现在已经把手机和笔记本电脑视为日常生活中的常见用品了。