mid-15c., "of this world," from Old French mondain "of this world, worldly, earthly, secular;" also "pure, clean; noble, generous" (12c.), from Late Latin mundanus "belonging to the world" (as distinct from the Church), in classical Latin "a citizen of the world, cosmopolite," from mundus "universe, world," literally "clean, elegant"; used as a translation of Greek kosmos (see cosmos) in its Pythagorean sense of "the physical universe" (the original sense of the Greek word was "orderly arrangement"). Latin mundus also was used of a woman's "ornaments, dress," and is related to the adjective mundus "clean, elegant" (used of women's dress, etc.). Related: Mundanely. The mundane era was the chronology that began with the supposed epoch of the Creation (famously reckoned as 4004 B.C.E.).
例文
1. Her London life was sedate，almost mundane .
彼女のロンドンでの生活は平凡で、ほとんど退屈だった。
2.It was hard to return to mundane matters after such excitement.
このような緊張した状況を経験していると、通常の事務に戻ることは難しい。
3.I found the job very mundane .
この仕事はとても単調だと思います。
4.A paint finish can transform something everyday and mundane into something more elaborate.
ペンキカバー面は、普通で平凡なものをより精緻に見せることができる。
5.It 's an attitude that turns the mundane into some-thing rather more interesting and exciting.