Enough of fantasy, the workaday world awaited him.

幻想之后，等待他的是平凡的现世。

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While the workaday world of container cars lumbered past, we settled down at a table to sweet lime juice, dhosas and scrambled eggs.

车厢外是日常工作的世界，集装箱卡车隆隆驶过，我们则坐在有橙汁，印度薄饼和炒鸡蛋的餐桌上。

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Washington has been for me not so much workaday world as theme park of the imagination.

对我来说，华盛顿与其说是上班族的世界，还不如说是想象世界中的主题公园。

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His wife Clara, 46, a lawyer who has worked part-time while raising the couple's two children, is ready to increase her billable hours to boost the family income as she and Don begin the final push toward their goal: leaving the workaday world, still youthfully vigorous, to own and operate a bed-and-breakfast in the Berkshires, as well as a 1.7-acre spread for raising ostriches.

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This 73-foot-long schooner is the stuff dropping-out-of-the-workaday-world fantasies are made of.

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