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everyman

/ev-ree-man/US // ˈɛv riˌmæn //UK // (ˈɛvrɪˌmæn) //

常识分子,常人,常客,常青树

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a 15th-century English morality play.
    • : an ordinary person; the typical or average person.
pron.代词 pronoun
  1. 1
    • : everybody; everyone.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Christie may have his faults, but he oozes the everyman persona.

  • You have to be an everyman and chameleon, so that every bit of you is involved in the end.

  • Ex-sexy elf Orlando Bloom, without even putting on his Legolas weave, turns Justin Bieber-punching everyman.

  • At the end of the day, Bloom emerges as an unlikely hero: former sexy elf turned Justin Bieber-punching everyman.

  • Still, the tradition of a hero with a younger, or everyman, acolyte stretches back to antiquity.

  • We trust that Everyman will do his duty and bring in a large sum for this admirable object.

  • He never manages the classic, I mean as Flaubert gives us in each main character: Everyman.

  • He is everyman, like Hamlet, if only we had the wit to recognize ourselves in him.

  • The general structure of Everyman and some of its fellows, heightened and made more dramatic, gave us Marlowe's Faustus.

  • Everyman, the oftenest revived and best known of them, if not the best, is very typical of the class.