The love song "Ordinary" celebrates the beauty of simple things in everyday life.

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That is not to say that one shouldn't deal with death or sexuality in the ordinary course of life.

这并不是不能在平凡的生活中,涉及死亡或生殖。

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There's in those images, I think, a kind of utopian promise that the familiar, ordinary pleasures of rural life can be recaptured in a new society of plenty.

在这些图片中，我认为有一种乌托邦的希望,对乡村生活熟悉而平凡的快乐的希望,能在一个自足的新社会里重新得到快乐的希望。

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