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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They appeared to be about to inflict on us the usual final kiss of the Icelanders.
-- Hans, with a perfectly calm and indifferent air, took his usual post at the head of the adventurous little band.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But already Par-is was full of Americans and English, strange Americans in the oddest uniforms, and the usual dreary English that are so hopeless abroad.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well!One day when we took Pet to church there to hear the music because, as practical people, it is the business of our lives to show her everything that we think can please her Mother (my usual name for Mrs Meagles) began to cry so, that it was necessary to take her out.
-- The rest of the party were of the usual materials: travellers on business, and travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a clerical English husband in a meek strait-waistcoat, on a wedding trip with his young wife; a majestic English mama and papa, of the patrician order, with a family of three growing-up daughters, who were keeping a journal for the confusion of their fellow-creatures; and a deaf old English mother, tough in travel, with a very decidedly grown-up daughter indeed, which daughter went sketching about the universe in the expectation of ultimately toning herself off into the married state.
-- As she read on, years seemed to fall away from her son like the imaginings of a dream, and all the old dark horrors of his usual preparation for the sleep of an innocent child to overshadow him.
-- She expected to see Jeremiah fast asleep or in a fit, but he was calmly seated in a chair, awake, and in his usual health.
-- Although she said this raging, she said it in a voice so far from being beyond her control that it was even lower than her usual tone.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had not heart enough even to make herself pretty as usual by put-ting on a blue neck ribbon and dressing her hair in the most becoming way.
-- No sooner had the guest paid the usual stale com-pliments and bowed himself out, than Jenny, under pretense of asking an important question, informed Mr. Davis, the teacher, that Amy March had pickled limes in her desk.
-- A.S. ADVERTISEMENTS Miss Oranthy Bluggage, the accomplished strong-mind-ed lecturer, will deliver her famous lecture on 'WOMAN AND HER POSITION' at Pickwick Hall, next Saturday Evening, after the usual performances.
-- In they both came, Mrs. March with her usual question, 'Any letter from Father, girls?'
-- Aunt March received them with her usual hospitality.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He charges him thrice the usual sum; and it's assented to.
-- When Stubb had departed, Ahab stood for a while leaning over the bulwarks; and then, as had been usual with him of late, calling a sailor of the watch, he sent him below for his ivory stool, and also his pipe.
-- Your most usual point of perch is the head of the t' gallant-mast, where you stand upon two thin parallel sticks (almost peculiar to whalemen) called the t' gallant cross-trees.
-- Vacantly eyeing the heaving whale for a moment, he issued the usual orders for securing it for the night, and then handing his lantern to a seaman, went his way into the cabin, and did not come forward again until morning.
-- To dress in the dark, and eat in the dark, and stumble in darkness to his pallet, this is his usual lot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, Oliver and Noah had descended into the kitchen at the usual dinner -hour, to banquet upon a small joint of mutton--a pound and a half of the worst end of the neck--when Charlotte being called out of the way, there ensued a brief interval of time, which Noah Claypole, being hungry and vicious, considered he could not possibly devote to a worthier purpose than aggravating and tantalising young Oliver Twist.
-- 'He says they died in his infancy, your worship,' replied the officer: hazarding the usual reply.
-- I thought it was always usual to send them paupers in carts.'
-- Here he walked even faster than before; nor did he linger until he had again turned into a court; when, as if conscious that he was now in his proper element, he fell into his usual shuffling pace, and seemed to breathe more freely.
-- croaked the Jew, in his usual voice.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I should like balls infinitely better,' she replied, 'if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is some-thing insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting.
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