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Перевод: mundane
[прилагательное] земной; мирской; светский
Тезаурус:
- Fischetti says a phage infection and its toxin seem to be mundane; the toxin may be a mere waste product that happens to damage human cells.
- Against those who see his political career as stemming from mundane and this-worldly considerations such as a desire for power, I would argue that there is no good reason to reject his own understanding of the connection between the two.
- If the foregoing suggests the activity of experienced adult readers, let us look at that most basic, apparently neutral, and certainly most mundane, of sentences: "The cat sat on the mat".
- As a working man, your concerns on beat patrol were mundane but real - above all else, the unsocial hours and the peculiar daily rota.
- Charles thought he ought to show an interest in more mundane, soldierly matters.
- The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act, reviving an older myth, to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another, much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by "sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat" is a movement away from a first situation (that of Ariadne on Naxos) which we never see in itself; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other, but also of that first situation which, because a "myth" and so subject to constant reinterpretation, may never have happened in any of the ways presented, if indeed it ever took place at all.
- Eating here is a mundane but important matter.
- Both were convicted and sentenced to hang, ironically for a mass of mundane crimes, and not for the Royal Mail robbery that had made them so famous.
- They hurt, sometimes excruciatingly, but on the deepest level of all, it is somehow "all right"; and out of the praise and gratitude and joy that spring from it when we can grasp it, I think that we may give ourselves permission for the more mundane, but wonderfully healing emotion of happiness.
- A more mundane project for a survey writer is to scan Western art, which has often been attempted in series of books, many of them, as Roger Fry's comments implied, by German historians.
- It is difficult to believe that many of the prestige projects discussed in Chapter 8 would have been contemplated in the absence of the very high volumes of aid reaching countries for other, more mundane, purposes.
- In the mundane we have to live by the laws of the mundane and these do not always concur with the laws of the transcendent.
- I had no time for mundane talks such as "How To Keep A Bee" or "Rose Pruning Can Be Fun", no matter how much a specialist the speaker might be.
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