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  • Conjugation : pl  ordinaries
  • Derivatives : n  ordinariness
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

ordinary ['ɔːdnrɪ]
  1. 1. adjective (everyday) 普通
  2. 2. adjective [pej] (mediocre) 平常
    out of the ordinary
    非凡

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

ordinary [ˈɔːrdɪnərɪ]
  1. 1. adjective 普通的,通常的,惯常的
  2. 2. adjective 普遍的常见的,一般
  3. 3. n.[c] [American English] 检验遗嘱法官
  4. 4. n.[c] 常理常规
  5. 5. n.[c] [Obsolete] 忏悔牧师
  6. 6. n.[c] 旧式自行车
  7. 7. n.[c] [Heraldry] 普通图记
  8. 8. n.[c] 平常人,普通人,一般人

Collins English-English Dictionary

ordinary ['ɔːdənrɪ]
  1. 1. adj of common or established type or occurrence
  2. 2. adj familiar, everyday, or unexceptional
  3. 3. adj uninteresting or commonplace
  4. 4. adj having regular or ex officio jurisdiction
    an ordinary judge
  5. 5. adj [maths] (of a differential equation) containing two variables only and derivatives of one of the variables with respect to the other
  6. 6. n a common or average situation, amount, or degree (esp in the phrase out of the ordinary)
  7. 7. n a normal or commonplace person or thing
  8. 8. n [civil law] a judge who exercises jurisdiction in his own right
  9. 9. n [usually capital] an ecclesiastic, esp a bishop, holding an office to which certain jurisdictional powers are attached
  10. 10. n [RC Church] the parts of the Mass that do not vary from day to day - Compare proper
  11. 11. n a prescribed form of divine service, esp the Mass
  12. 12. n the US name for penny-farthing
  13. 13. n [heraldry] any of several conventional figures, such as the bend, the fesse, and the cross, commonly charged upon shields
  14. 14. n [History] a clergyman who visited condemned prisoners before their death
  15. 15. n [Brit] [obsolete] a meal provided regularly at a fixed price
  16. 16. n the inn providing such meals
  17. 17. n [Etymology] C16 (adj) and C13 (some n senses): ultimately from Latin ordinarius orderly, from ordo order

Examples

Never despise ordinary things -- the ordinary in yourself or in others.
别轻视日常小事——不管是你自己的,还是别人的。
This is an ordinary table red dry wine.
这是种普通的佐餐干红。
Ordinary sailors are not allowed to have meals in officer's mess.
普通水手不能在官员餐厅吃饭。
George Biley is not a ordinary yokel.
乔治·贝利不是一个普通的粗人。
Bonded carpet is thicker than ordinary carpet.
粘合地毯比普通地毯厚。
Ordinary plant pots can also be planted with bulbs.
普通的植物花盆也可以用来种植鳞茎植物。
An ordinary lock can easily be bypassed with a strip of plastic.
普通的锁用一个塑料片很容易就能够捅开。
But there was no hint of courtesy or even ordinary politeness between them.
但他们之间没有谦虚的迹象,甚至连一般的礼貌都没有。

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