public是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 公共的， 公用的； 公开的， 公然的n. 公众， 民众，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：
-- Every movable was packed off, as if it were dismissed from public life for evermore; the floor was swept and watered, the lamps were trimmed, fuel was heaped upon the fire; and the warehouse was as snug, and warm, and dry, and bright a ball-room, as you would desire to see upon a winter's night.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why do you write in the public streets?
-- It opened from a stinking little black courtyard, and was the general public entrance to a great pile of houses, inhabited by a great number of people.
-- For the rest, the Old Bailey was famous as a kind of deadly inn-yard, from which pale travellers set out continually, in carts and coaches, on a violent passage into the other world: traversing some two miles and a half of public street and road, and shaming few good citizens, if any.
-- That this correspondence with the public enemy was not a correspondence of to-day, or of yesterday, or even of last year, or of the year before.
-- That, if statues were decreed in Britain, as in ancient Greece and Rome, to public benefactors, this shining citizen would assuredly have had one.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When a friendship is formed between men, they generally affirm it, when occasion offers, either in public or private, by drinking to each other and exclaiming, 'thy health,' at the same time striking their glasses together.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You despise public official work because you want the reality to be invariably corresponding all the while with the aim--and that's not how it is.
-- Konstantin Levin heard him, and the disbelief in the sense of all public institutions, which he shared with him, and often expressed, was distasteful to him now from his brother's lips.
-- At dinner he talked a little to his wife about Moscow matters, and, with a sarcastic smile, asked her after Stepan Arkadyevitch; but the conversation was for the most part general, dealing with Petersburg official and public news.
-- Round the samovar and the hostess the conversation had been meanwhile vacillating in just the same way between three inevitable topics: the latest piece of public news, the theater, and scandal.
-- "I must say and express fully the following points: first, exposition of the value to be attached to public opinion and to decorum; secondly, exposition of religious significance of marriage; thirdly, if need be, reference to the calamity possibly ensuing to our son; fourthly, reference to the unhappiness likely to result to herself."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts.
-- IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG'S NAME IS ONCE MORE AT A PREMIUM ON 'CHANGEIt is time to relate what a change took place in English public opinion when it transpired that the real bankrobber, a certain James Strand, had been arrested, on the 17th day of December, at Edinburgh.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He whooped, and had another whiskey; he told Clif that he was a fine fellow, and Barney that he was a public benefactor, and unsteadily he retired to the telephone, which was shut off from public hearing in a closet.
-- Clif explained how certain he was--apparently his distinguished medical training had something to do with it--to be president of a motor factory, and Mr. Babbitt confided: "You fellows are a lot younger than I am, eight-ten years, and you haven't learned yet, like I have, that where the big pleasure is, is in Ideals and Service and a Public Career.
-- He had never dined with a duchess, never received a prize, never been interviewed, never produced anything which the public could understand, nor experienced anything since his schoolboy amours which nice people could regard as romantic.
-- He meditated that if science and public hygiene did remove tuberculosis and the other major plagues, the world was grimly certain to become so overcrowded, to become such a universal slave- packed shambles, that all beauty and ease and wisdom would disappear in a famine-driven scamper for existence.
-- While the other rickety cars of the village announced to the world, or at least to several square miles of the world, that Wheatsylvania was the "Wonder Town of Central N. D.," Martin's clattering Ford went bare; and when his enemy Norblom remarked, "I like to see a fellow have some public spirit and appreciate the place he gets his money outa," the citizenry nodded and spat, and began to question Martin's fame as a worker of miracles.
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：
-- 'That's enough, gentlemen, no fighting, please, in a public place.
-- Tolstyakov, a friend of mine, is always obliged to take off his pudding basin when he goes into any public place where other peo-ple wear their hats or caps.
-- They will impose various public acts of peni-tence upon themselves with a beautiful and edifying effect; in fact you've nothing to be uneasy about芒聙娄.
-- It was in those days, that very year I believe, the 'disgraceful action of the Age' took place (you know, 'The Egyptian Nights,' that public reading, you remember?
-- Disregarding public opinion for your sake and reinstating your reputation, I certainly might very well reckon on a fitting return, and might in-deed look for gratitude on your part.
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