
average Joe
平常人,普通人
An average Joe refers to someone who is just like everyone else; a normal person.
'Average' means 'in the middle' or 'not extreme', and 'Joe' is a common male name. So 'average Joe' refers to a man who is not extremely different from everyone else.
Average意思是'平均的,一般水平的',而Joe又是一個(gè)極其常見的名字,所以人們就用average Joe來表示很普通的一個(gè)人.例如我們會(huì)說,雷•羅馬諾是這個(gè)時(shí)代全美最受歡迎的電視明星之一,可他卻似乎不把自己當(dāng)成什么大人物,仿佛就是與你生活在同一座城市里的'average Joe'.