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Quotidian means ordinary, the kind of thing that happens every day — so ordinary it can feel a little dull. Packing lunch, catching the bus, washing rice: quotidian tasks. Writers like the word when they want a slightly fancy coat for “everyday.” In speech, people just say everyday or ordinary. Though actually, doctors once used it of a fever that came back every day; students almost always meet the “ordinary / daily” sense, not the fever. It can also be used as a noun for “everyday things,” but the adjective is the one you will see: a quotidian worry, quotidian life. It is on purpose. If you say it in casual talk, you are choosing a high word for a low, familiar fact — and that contrast is often the point.
日常的、每天都會發生的
原始詞典資料7 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。
quotidianadj/kwə(ʊ)ˈtɪdɪən/
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Happening every day; daily.
- I know that the government's daily idea to solve the country's law and order problem is not meant to be taken too seriously, but every now and again I am moved to raise an eyebrow at the quotidian suggestion.
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Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly.
- The story or the painting would serve to connect the part with the whole, the event with the myth, the quotidian with the sacred.
- Tragedy demanded verse, not the quotidian prose of comedy, and verse usually supplied some form of end rhyme.
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medicinesciencesRecurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc).
- Quotidian periodicity we find in greater or less degree in nearly all fevers, particularly in fevers associated with suppuration.
- I regret that the effect of these statements is a denial of the observation of initial quotidian paroxysms following artificial inoculation.
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Something which is considered humdrum or dull.
- His life took on a quotidian humdrum.
- Their careers, although often high paying, prestigious and meaningful (at least to an outsider looking in), had become boring, quotidian, dull, unstimulating, and repetitive.
quotidiannoun/kwə(ʊ)ˈtɪdɪən/
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archaichistoricalmedicinesciencesA fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
- If I could meet that Fancie-monger, I would giue him some good counsel, for he seemes to haue the Quotidian of Loue vpon him.
- I myself was, about two years since, strangely cured of a violent quotidian, which all the wonted method of physick had not so much abated, by applying to my wrists a mixture of two handfuls of bay-salt, two handfuls of the freshest English hops, and a quarter of a pound of blue currants […]
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historicalA daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
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Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.
- More than opposable thumbs and the invention of the flinthead axe, it was our ability to transcend the quotidian by weaving tales of awe and wonder that set us apart from the beasts.
- Zamenhof realized early on that one of the best ways of bringing Esperanto to life is through translated literature – through rendering in Esperanto events and ideas, conversations and encounters, that have yet to occur in real life in that language. Literary creation has always broadened our experience beyond the quotidian; it can also broaden a language.
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。