run-of-the-mill

參見：run of the mill

英语

其他形式

• run of the mill
• run-o’-the-mill、run o’ the mill

词源

1922年出现，源自磨坊（mill）每批次（run）产出来的东西都应该一致标准的说法。

形容词

run-of-the-mill (比較級 more run-of-the-mill，最高級 most run-of-the-mill)

1. (比喻義) 普通的，平凡的，平平无奇的

   This isn’t your run-of-the-mill refrigerator; you’ll find the extra features well worth the price.

   这款不同于那种普普通通的冰箱，您会发现附加功能很值这个价。

   • 1971 November 30, Martin Lapidus, Class Notes: 62, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 72, page 26,

     The other had the most run-of-the-mill news which make some of my recent run-of-the-mill columns appear like the raciest escapist fare.

   • 1989, Punch, page 55,

     For a deeper, less familiar philosophy, you have to listen to your more run-of-the-mill dossers, and they don't come more run-of-the-mill than Ratso.

   • 1995, Alain Mérot, French Painting in the Seventeenth Century, page 42,

     In one side of the prestigious commissions, public and private, sacred and profane, which could make the name of an artist, there was a more run of the mill style of painting which already enjoyed a vast clientéle at all levels of society.

   • 1999, David Drew, The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings‎^[1]，第 284 頁:

     Who the more run-of-the-mill victims were is unclear, since they are often not named or have no emblem glyphs attached to them.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 2001, Gabrielle Lord, Death Delights, 2002, unnumbered page,

     Or even more run-of-the-mill murders which usually turn out to be family or business affairs and where someone's usually heard something or, in the case of the more professional killings, someone wants to do a deal.

反义词

• (平平无奇)： cream of the crop

参见

• common-or-garden （标准）