c. 1200, werkedei (n.), "day designated for labor rather than religious observance or rest," from Old Norse virkr dagr "working day;" see work (n.) + day. It passed into an adjective 16c.
双语例句
1. Enough of fantasy, the workaday world awaited him.
天马行空地幻想了一番之后，等待他的是平淡无奇的现实世界。
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2. This is a workaday newspaper.
这是一份枯燥乏味(或:普通)的报纸.
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3. Imagine, Tibbs suggests, that we push grimy workaday industrial processes toward the character of biological processes.
提布斯启发说, 想象一下, 我们推动肮脏的普通工业生产方式向具有生物特性的加工方式转化.
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4. Instead it dawns on a familiar, workaday place, still in need of groceries and sewage disposal.
相反,它照在了一个熟悉的平庸的地方, 这个地方仍旧需要食品杂货和污水排放.
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5. It dawns on a familiar, workaday place, still in need of groceries and sewage disposal.
