For starters, Microsoft's merger activities are unexceptional by big-tech standards, says Mark Moerdler of Bernstein, a broker.

首先，经纪公司伯恩斯坦的马克·德表示，按照大型科技公司的标准，微软的并购活动稀松平常。

This is The English We Speak from BBC Learning English, and we're learning about the phrase 'bog-standard', which describes things that are basic, ordinary and unexceptional.

这BBC《地道英语》节目，我们正在学习" bog-standard" 这个词，它描述了一些基本的东西，又平常。

Firdos Square is not the most important location in Baghdad, and the statue was unexceptional: a bronze standing figure, 12 metres high, weighing around a tonne.

佛多斯广场并不巴格达最重要的地方，而这座雕像也很：一座高12米、重约1吨的青铜雕像。