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run-of-the-mill

/ruhn-uhv-thuh-mil/US // ˈrʌn əv ðəˈmɪl //

普通的,平庸的,常规的,平庸之辈

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.

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Examples

  • France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.

  • As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

  • Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.

  • Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.

  • Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.

  • Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

  • Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

  • But men we had known and trails we had followed furnished us plenty of grist for the conversational mill.

  • A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.

  • But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.