"Here I give to understand (If e'er this coffin drive a-land), I, King Pericles, have lost This Queen worth all our mundane cost. Who finds her, give her burying; She was the daughter of a King; Besides this treasure for a fee, The gods requite his charity!"英文原著 · 《Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare》
But the tyranny of the Law is not to last forever. It is to last only until "the time appointed of the father," until Christ came and redeemed us. VERSE 3. Under the elements of the world. By the elements of the world the Apostle does not understand the physical elements, as some have thought. In calling the Law "the elements of the world" Paul means to say that the Law is something material, mundane, earthly. It may restrain evil, but it does not deliver from sin. The Law does not justify; it does not bring a person to heaven.英文原著 · 《Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians》
"Ass" was evidently the word, and the angel retired, smiling with mundane satisfaction over the compliment that reached her ears.英文原著 · 《Eight Cousins》
Distributing the light in equal measure;
He in like manner to the mundane splendours
Ordained a general ministress and guide,英文原著 · 《Inferno》
I have been interested by your remarks on Senecia and Gnaphalium: would it not be worth while (I should be very curious to hear the result) to make a short list of the generally considered variable or polymorphous genera, as Rosa, Salix, Rubus, etc., etc., and reflect whether such genera are generally mundane, and more especially whether they have distinct or identical (or closely allied) species in their different and distant habitats.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
Europe is thus unfairly exalted. Is this not so? If we had the number of genera strictly, or nearly strictly European, one could compare better with Asia and Southern America, etc. But I dare say this is a Utopian wish, owing to difficulty of saying what genera to call mundane; nor have I my ideas at all clear on the subject, and I have expressed them even less clearly than I have them.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
To me, it's about this, a mundane task that's suddenly a joy because of who you're doing it with.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
"There's more than just crayons on the table." "The veal piccata is divine" and the mushroom risotto is an... E-X-Q-U..." - Exquisite. - "... an exquisite treat." "Scavo's has been transformed" "from a mundane family eatery" "into the area's hottest..." That's enough, Kaylar.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
It's mundane. It's actually a little dull.美剧 · 《Friends》
get into far more mundane trouble, or, you know, forgetting a lunch date with your daughter.美剧 · 《Lie to me》