Though many of today 's well-known technical fabrics are designed to make outerwear work in extreme conditions - to keep the wearer warm and dry - those developed to keep us cool in our more workaday clothes are no less important
But the pretence was maintained that the shuttle was a workaday craft .
但是他们仍然坚持谎称太空飞船是一项普通的飞机。
The opening of offices and bank branches is workaday stuff .
关于开办公司和银行分支的事例在书中比比皆是。
Indeed , the tension created by these conflicting roles is what helps even the most workaday academic retain some independence of thought and intellectual vigour .
确实,这两种冲突的角色所制造的危机使最为普通的大学教师保留了一定的思想独立与思维活力。
Washington has been for me not so much workaday world as theme park of the imagination .