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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My aunt, who was perfectly indifferent to public opinion, drovethe grey pony through Dover in a masterly manner; sitting highand stiff like a state coachman, keeping a steady eye upon himwherever he went, and making a point of not let- ting him havehis own way in any respect.
-- He isnot my private friend and public patron, as Steerforth was; but Ihold him in a reverential respect.
-- Doctor Strong refers to me in public as apromising young scholar.
-- Thatperhaps it was a little indecent that the principal registrar of all,whose duty it was to find the public, constantly resorting to thisplace, all needful accommodation, should be an enormoussinecurist in virtue of that post (and might be, besides, aclergyman, a pluralist, the holder of a stall in a cathedral, and whatnot), while the public was put to the inconvenience of which wehad a specimen every afternoon when the office was busy, andwhich we knew to be quite monstrous.
-- Red Whisker pretended he could make a salad (which I don'tbelieve), and obtruded himself on public notice.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Bates stood in the very worst predicament in the world for having much of the public favour; and she had no intellectual superiority to make atonement to herself, or frighten those who might hate her into outward respect.
-- 'Be-ing my friend's, I have no right to expose it in any degree to the public eye, but perhaps you may not dislike looking at it.'
-- Before she had committed herself by any public profession of eter-nal friendship for Jane Fairfax, or done more towards a recantation of past prejudices and errors, than saying to Mr. Knightley, 'She certainly is handsome; she is better than handsome!'
-- I assure you the utmost stretch of public fame would not make me amends for the loss of any happiness in private life.'
-- A line from me would bring you a little host of acquaintance; and my particular friend, Mrs. Partridge, the lady I have always resided with when in Bath, would be most happy to shew you any attentions, and would be the very person for you to go into public with.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The press and the public were kind enough to welcome the fanciful plan, and willingly joined me in the anachronism of imagining a Wessex population living under Queen Victoria; a modern Wessex of railways, the penny post, mowing and reaping machines, union workhouses, lucifer matches, labourers who could read and write, and National school children.
-- Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.
-- He liked saying "Bathsheba" as a private enjoyment instead of whistling; turned over his taste to black hair, though he had sworn by brown ever since he was a boy, isolated himself till the space he filled in the public eye was contemptibly small.
-- In the eye of other people well, I don't say it; though public thought will out."
-- The scene was a public path, bordered on the left hand by a river, behind which rose a high wall.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This position is sufficient to account for the silence prevalent in the streets shut in between the dome of the Pantheon and the dome of the Val-de-Grace, two conspicuous public buildings which give a yellowish tone to the landscape and darken the whole district that lies beneath the shadow of their leaden-hued cupolas.
-- A Parisian straying into a suburb apparently composed of lodging-houses and public institutions would see poverty and dullness, old age lying down to die, and joyous youth condemned to drudgery.
-- Or he might have been a receiver at the door of a public slaughter-house, or a sub-inspector of nuisances.
-- No doubt Noriot shared the plunder with the Committee of Public Salvation, as that sort of person always did.
-- He saw the world as it is; saw how the rich lived beyond the jurisdiction of law and public opinion, and found in success the _ultima ratio mundi_.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my fa-ther had filled several public situations with honour and reputation.
-- He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.
-- During the two years that had elapsed previous to their marriage my father 26 Frankensteinhad gradually relinquished all his public functions; and im-mediately after their union they sought the pleasant climate of Italy, and the change of scene and interest attendant on a tour through that land of wonders, as a restorative for her weakened frame.
-- A murmur of approbation followed Elizabeth's simple and powerful appeal, but it was excited by her generous 94 Frankensteininterference, and not in favour of poor Justine, on whom the public indignation was turned with renewed violence, charging her with the blackest ingratitude.
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