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单词 mundane
释义 mun·dane
\|mən|dān\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English mondeyne, from Middle French mondain, from Late Latin mundanus, from Latin mundus world + -anus -an
1.
 a. : of, relating to, or characteristic of the world : characterized by human affairs, concerns, and activities that are often practical, immediate, transitory, and ordinary
  < a reviewer is not expected to mention anything so mundane as the price of books — A.J.P.Taylor >
  < nothing but mundane businessmen — T.H.Fielding >
  < the occupations and distractions of mundane life — Harold Nicolson >
 b. : belonging to the world and having no concern for the ideal or the heavenly
  < the trend which marks distinguished art from the more mundane — Carlyle Burrows >
  < a fairy palace, no: but a mundane wonder of a quite unimagined kind — R.A.W.Hughes >
2. : of or relating to the cosmos : cosmic
Synonyms: see earthly
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