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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. t.
   To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general
   heads. --Felton.

Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, a.
   Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or
   observation.

Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, n.
   1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a
      trite or customary remark; a platitude.

   2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or
      referred to.

            Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our
            fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by
            way of commonplace.                   --Swift.

   {Commonplace book}, a book in which records are made of
      things to be remembered.

Commonplace \Com"mon*place`\, v. i.
   To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.]
   --Bacon.

资料来源 : WordNet®

commonplace
     n : a trite or obvious remark [syn: {platitude}, {cliche}, {banality},
          {bromide}]

commonplace
     adj 1: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace
            prose" [syn: {banal}, {trivial}]
     2: completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now
        become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
     3: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an
        unglamorous job greasing engines" [syn: {humdrum}, {prosaic},
         {unglamorous}, {unglamourous}]
     4: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic
        sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace";
        "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating
        threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the
        trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: {banal}, {hackneyed},
         {old-hat}, {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn},
         {tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}]