ordinary
普通,普通的,寻常,一般
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- : of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- : plain or undistinguished: ordinary clothes.
- : somewhat inferior or below average; mediocre.
- : customary; usual; normal: We plan to do the ordinary things this weekend.
- : Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. common, vulgar, or disreputable.
- : immediate, as contrasted with something that is delegated.
- : belonging to the regular staff or the fully recognized class.
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plural or·di·nar·ies.
- : the commonplace or average condition, degree, etc.: ability far above the ordinary.
- : something regular, customary, or usual.
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Examples
The company also offers a Web dashboard of data for ordinary investors.
Internet shutdowns “hurt ordinary people by depriving us of our fundamental rights to access information, to connect with family members, and they also put our physical safety at risk,” Micek says.
The two of us primarily text, so a call was out of the ordinary.
These two appear to be ordinary, run-of-the-mill tectonic quakes.
Instead, wealth is transferred from ordinary investors to bubble sellers.
There was nothing out of the ordinary, but for the fact that Jim was gay.
The Rizzoli in New York City was no ordinary bookstore in its seventies heyday.
They refused to believe that ordinary humans could beat them at their own game.
At the White House on Monday, Obama praised Hagel as “no ordinary secretary of defense.”
“My experience was very ordinary, but very privileged,” she said.
Bacteria, when present in great numbers, give a uniform cloud which cannot be removed by ordinary filtration.
All the ordinary subjects in schools have been taught over and over again millions and millions of times.