- 1普通人、凡人（文學、電影裡代表大家的那個小人物）
An everyman is a typical, ordinary person — not a king, not a star, not very rich — who has the same worries and difficulties that most people have. Writers and film people use it for a character who stands for people like us, so the audience can see themselves in him. The word often keeps a capital E when people are thinking of that type, because it comes from an old play. Though actually, the play's Everyman was a person on a moral journey, not every male; older English used man for a human being. Today you will also see an everyman hero in films: someone plain, a bit , who still has to face a big problem. It is not the same as everyone (all people), and it is not a polite way to say he for a mixed group.
組成Perhaps from the Flemish play Elckerlijc (around 1495) or its English translation Everyman (around 1520). In English it looks like every + man.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
everymannoun/ˈɛvɹiːˌmæn/
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In fiction, drama, or allegory, the archetypical ordinary individual, frequently the protagonist in a parable of some sort.
- Near-synonyms: man on the street, John Q. Public (see more there)
- In the novels of John Updike, sometimes Rabbit is his own man, and sometimes he is everyman.
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