usual是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 通常的， 平常的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge returned his la-bours with an improved opinion of himself, and in a more facetious temper than was usual with him.
-- Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual mel-ancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker's-book, went home to bed.
-- Marley in his pigtail, usual waistcoat, tights and boots; the tassels on the latter bris-tling, like his pigtail, and his coat-skirts, and the hair upon his head.
-- Then, with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character, he said, in pity for his former self, 'Poor boy.'
-- He looked about in that very place for his own image; but another man stood in his accustomed corner, and though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured in through the Porch.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the hors-es; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey.
-- Stryver never had a case in hand, anywhere, but Carton was there, with his hands in his pockets, staring at the ceiling of the court; they went the same Circuit, and even there they prolonged their usual orgies late into the night, and Carton was rumoured to be seen at broad day, going home stealthily and unsteadily to his lodgings, like a dissipated cat.
-- 'About the usual time; it may be a quarter of an hour lat-er.'
-- The village had its one poor street, with its poor brew-ery, poor tannery, poor tavern, poor stable-yard for relays of post-horses, poor fountain, all usual poor appointments.
-- Before this rumour, the crowd gradually melted away, and perhaps the Guards came, and perhaps they never came, and this was the usual progress of a mob.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky--Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world-- woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study.
-- "Then we shall see," Stepan Arkadyevitch said to himself, and getting up he put on a gray dressing-gown lined with blue silk, tied the tassels in a knot, and, drawing a deep breath of air into his broad, bare chest, he walked to the window with his usual confident step, turning out his feet that carried his full frame so easily.
-- At his usual time he got up and made his toilet for the night.
-- But this evening, instead of his usual thought and meditations upon official details, his thoughts were absorbed by his wife and something disagreeable connected with her.
-- Contrary to his usual habit, he did not get into bed, but fell to walking up and down the rooms with his hands clasped behind his back.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were Mr. Fogg's usual partners at whist: Andrew Stuart, an engineer; John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin, bankers; Thomas Flanagan, a brewer; and Gauthier Ralph, one of the Directors of the Bank of England all rich and highly respectable personages, even in a club which comprises the princes of English trade and finance.
-- Having purchased the usual quota of shirts and shoes, he took a leisurely promenade about the streets, where crowds of people of many nationalities Europeans, Persians with pointed caps, Banyas with round turbans, Sindes with square bonnets, Parsees with black mitres, and long-robed Armenians were collected.
-- Fix, who suspected Mr. Fogg's every movement, followed them cautiously, without being himself perceived; while Passepartout, laughing in his sleeve at Fix's manoeuvres, went about his usual errands.
-- He remembered that it was the detective who procured the sledge, the only means of reaching Omaha in time; but, checked by some presentiment, he kept his usual reserve.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As head of the medical department of bacteriology, Gottlieb was a member of this all-ruling body, and when he entered the long Council Chamber, with its gilt ceiling, its heavy maroon curtains, its somber paintings of pioneers, he started for his usual seat, unconscious of the knot of whispering members, meditating on far-off absorbing things.
-- Martin was faithful enough about it, and gave to it almost every morning, but he blasphemed more than usual and he unholily welcomed scientific papers in which lipovaccines were condemned as inferior to ordinary salt solutions.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The head clerk began dictating to him the usual form of declaration, that he could not pay, that he undertook to do so at a future date, that he would not leave the town, nor sell his property, and so on.
-- From old habit he took his usual walk in the direction of the Hay Market.
-- All their phrases are the usual ones, but there is something about them芒聙娄.
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