He was a president, but now he's just an ordinary man. 他曾经是总统,而现在他只是一个普通人。
A king is just an ordinary man who is born into a royal family. 国王也就是个生于皇室的普通人。
ADJ-GRADED. 隐喻的;比喻意义的;象征的. You use the word metaphorical to indicate that you are not using words with their ordinary meaning, but are describing something by means of an image or symbol.
It was a very ordinary day.
这是十分平常的一天。
※The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct. 聪明人循理智办事,平常人照经验办事,蠢人按需要办事,畜生凭本能办事。