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Commonplace means something that happens often or is very usual, so it isn't surprising or special anymore. It can be an adjective ("smartphones are commonplace now") or a noun ("it has become a commonplace that...").
常見的；司空見慣的事
組成common (usual, shared by many) + place — from an old idea of a "common place" in a book where useful, often-repeated ideas were written down.
同家族的字
- commonthe first part, meaning usual or shared
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
commonplaceadj/ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/
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Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics.
- "This Mr. Tyrrel," she said, in a tone of authoritative decision, "seems after all a very ordinary sort of person, quite a commonplace man."
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts,[…], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
commonplacenoun/ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/
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A platitude or cliché.
- Finally he began to mutter some commonplaces which meant nothing particularly.
- And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.
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Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring.
- It is odd how easily the common-places of morality or of sentiment glide off in conversation. Well, they are "exceedingly helpful," and so Lord Avonleigh found them.
- "MY dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker-street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.[…]"
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A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
- Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of common-place.
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A commonplace book.
commonplaceverb/ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/
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To make a commonplace book.
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To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
- I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing an universal history from the […]historians.
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obsoleteTo utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
- And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.
- c. January 1620, Francis Bacon, letter to the King For the good that comes of particular and select committees and commissions, I need not commonplace.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。