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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last words in his note-book were these: "A Southern rifleman has just taken aim at me, but " The Southerner notwithstanding missed Gideon Spilett, who, with his usual fortune, came out of this affair without a scratch.
-- Gideon Spilett, Pencroft, and Herbert attentively examined this land, on which they might perhaps have to live many long years; on which indeed they might even die, should it be out of the usual track of vessels, as was likely to be the case.
-- he cried, rousing himself, and collecting his ideas with the promptitude usual to seamen.
-- But every sort of wood does not answer for the purpose, and besides, there is "the knack," following the usual expression, and it is probable that Pencroft had not "the knack."
-- Chapter 18 Cyrus Harding's project had succeeded, but, according to his usual habit he showed no satisfaction; with closed lips and a fixed look, he remained motionless.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One night I had roamed into the City, and was walking slowly on in my usual way, musing upon a great many things, when I was arrested by an inquiry, the purport of which did not reach me, but which seemed to be addressed to myself, and was preferred in a soft sweet voice that struck me very pleasantly.
-- It was natural for four reasons: firstly, because Mrs Quilp being a young woman and notoriously under the dominion of her husband ought to be excited to rebel; secondly, because Mrs Quilp's parent was known to be laudably shrewish in her disposition and inclined to resist male authority; thirdly, because each visitor wished to show for herself how superior she was in this respect to the generality of her sex; and fourthly, because the company being accustomed to scandalise each other in pairs, were deprived of their usual subject of conversation now that they were all assembled in close friendship, and had consequently no better employment than to attack the common enemy.
-- One night, she had stolen to her usual window, and was sitting there very sorrowfully for the old man had been worse that day when she thought she heard her name pronounced by a voice in the street.
-- On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will separate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and that the meeting will never be.
-- Perhaps his imperturbable character was never more strikingly developed, for he preserved his usual equable smile notwithstanding that his body was dangling in a most uncomfortable position, all loose and limp and shapeless, while his long peaked cap, unequally balanced against his exceedingly slight legs, threatened every instant to bring him toppling down.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Nekhludoff, besides the usual irresoluteness before marriage of people of his age, and who are not passionately in love, had an important reason for withholding his offer of marriage for the time being.
-- However, in favor of marrying Missy in particular (Korchagin's name was Maria, but, as usual in families of the higher classes, she received a nickname) there was, first, the fact that she came of good stock, and was in everything, from her dress to her manner of speaking, walking and laughing, distinguished not by any exceptional qualities, but by "good breeding"--he knew no other expression for the quality which he prized very highly.
-- And Nekhludoff, as was usual with him among strangers, received it as his due.
-- At the usual hour the jailers' whistles were heard in the corridors of the prison; with a rattling of irons the doors of the corridors and cells opened, and the patter of bare feet and the c latter of prison shoes resounded through the corridors; the men and women prisoners washed and dressed, and after going through the morning inspection, proceeded to brew their tea.
-- Her eyes were truthful and kindly, and the expression of resolution and timidity on her face was so touching that Nekhludoff, as it was usual with him, suddenly mentally placed himself in her position, understood and pitied her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is usual to assume that the sun will go on cooling steadily in the future.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Only in the usual way,' Alice said, smiling.
-- However, though she could see nothing but the soles of his feet, she was much relieved to hear that he was talking on in his usual tone.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The captain had risen earlier than usual and set out down the beach, his cutlass swinging under the broad skirts of the old blue coat, his brass telescope under his arm, his hat tilted back upon his head.
-- He got downstairs next morning, to be sure, and had his meals as usual, though he ate little and had more, I am afraid, than his usual supply of rum, for he helped himself out of the bar, scowling and blowing through his nose, and no one dared to cross him.
-- "Doctor," he went on in his usual tones, "I was a-thinking of that, knowing as how you had a fancy for the boy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Conseil, with his usual politeness.
-- "These are the usual nautical instruments," I replied, "and I know the use of them.
-- Come into the saloon, it is our usual study, and there you will learn all you want to know about the Nautilus."
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