Plenty of physicists still look to the skies in search for clues to the nature of what is now believed to be as humdrum a cosmic occurrence as stars and planets.

许多物理学家依然仰望天空搜寻线索，即如今所认为的如同恒星和行星一般平淡无奇的宇宙事件本质的线索。

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Imagination raises a man above the humdrum of life.

想象使人从单调无聊的生活中解脱出来。

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After all, take a more familiar humdrum example.

举个更熟悉的乏味的例子。

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It was a new world,okay? Instead of being the humdrum statistical world, everything seemed to turn into butterflies and perfume.

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That is, the more familiar humdrum event of death here your body ceases functioning and you end up having a corpse that gets buried and so forth.

这是死亡最常见的单调的形式,肉体停止一切功能,人最终成为尸体，放进棺材埋葬。

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After all, take a more familiar humdrum example.

举个更熟悉的乏味的例子。

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As happens often in dynastic family business sagas, it fell to the second generation to transform a humdrum business with a combination of chutzpah and panache.

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Well-executed lighting by way of dimmers, LED lighting and old-fashion DIY can jazz up a humdrum space, provide a splash of chic and enhance the ambiance of an entire home.

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For 25 years Visa operated as a humdrum service bureau for banks, with a bureaucracy as hidebound and inflexible as its computer system.

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