c. 1200, werkedei (n.), "day designated for labor rather than religious observance or rest," from Old Norse virkr dagr "working day;" see work (n.) + day. It passed into an adjective 16c.
雙語例句
1. Enough of fantasy, the workaday world awaited him.
天馬行空地幻想了一番之后，等待他的是平淡無奇的現(xiàn)實世界。
來自柯林斯例句
2. This is a workaday newspaper.
這是一份枯燥乏味(或:普通)的報紙.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
3. Imagine, Tibbs suggests, that we push grimy workaday industrial processes toward the character of biological processes.