| 单词 | it is ordinary |
| 释义 | > as lemmasit is ordinary b. Normally found or experienced; common, customary, usual. Chiefly in predicative use, in it is ordinary (with a person to do something, etc.); (also) it is an ordinary thing (for a person to do something, etc.). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or customary wonesomec1200 wonec1275 customable1381 customeda1382 useda1382 wonta1382 wonted1408 accustomed1429 vulgarc1430 usualc1444 famosec1449 customalc1450 accustomablec1475 accustomatea1513 frequent1531 accustomary1541 customary1574 frequented1586 consuetudinary1590 ordinary1605 consuetudinal1656 habitual1689 solent1694 regulation1803 usitate1885 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. C1v It hath beene ordinarie with politique men to extenuate and disable learned men by the names of Pedantes. View more context for this quotation 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) iii. iii. ii. 477 It is an ordinary thing for women in such cases, to scrat the faces..of such as they suspect. 1670 R. Baxter Cure Church-div. 167 It is very ordinary with poor fanciful women..to take all their deep apprehensions for revelations. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 27. ⁋6 It is ordinary for Love to make Men Poetical. 1794 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity I. i. v. 121 This proves that a morality, more pure and strict than was ordinary, prevailed..in Christian societies. 1864 W. W. Brown Clotelle iv. 14 To behold five or six tables in the saloon of a steamer, with half a dozen men playing cards at each, with money, pistols, and bowie-knives,..is an ordinary thing on the Mississippi River. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xvii. 349 I wish I had any other garment than my coat to offer you. But shall you mind throwing it over your shoulders while we are on the water? It is quite an ordinary thing to do, when people return late and are not enough provided with wraps. 1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out i Mrs. Ambrose understood that after all it is the ordinary thing to be poor, and that London is the city of innumerable poor people. 1966 D. Wakoski Discrepancies & Apparitions 80 All of this about rain and sun should relate to love because they are all so ordinary and it is ordinary for poets to make comparisons like this. < as lemmas |
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