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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or massacring their species.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That terrific scandal concerning theCharleston girl he had compromised and the brother he had killed was public property.
-- As food and clothing grew scarcer and prices rose higher and higher, the public outcry against the speculators grewlouder and more venomous.
-- Melanie, who was now in her fifth month, had not been out in public or received guests for weeks,and she was appalled at the idea.
-- Public feeling was at fever heat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An epergne or centre-piece of some kind was in the middle of this cloth; it was so heavily overhung with cobwebs that its form was quite undistinguishable; and, as I looked along the yellow expanse out of which I remember its seeming to grow, like a black fungus, I saw speckle-legged spiders with blotchy bodies running home to it, and running out from it, as if some circumstances of the greatest public importance had just transpired in the spider community.
-- "There appeared upon the scene--say at the races, or the public balls, or anywhere else you like--a certain man, who made love to Miss Havisham.
-- The Queen of Denmark, a very buxom lady, though no doubt historically brazen, was considered by the public to have too much brass about her; her chin being attached to her diadem by a broad band of that metal (as if she had a gorgeous toothache), her waist being encircled by another, and each of her arms by another, so that she was openly mentioned as "the kettle-drum."
-- Whenever that undecided Prince had to ask a question or state a doubt, the public helped him out with it.
-- At that time jails were much neglected, and the period of exaggerated reaction consequent on all public wrongdoing--and which is always its heaviest and longest punishment--was still far off.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Red-Cap, how-ever, was on her guard, and went straight forward on her way, and told her grandmother that she had met the wolf, and that he had said 'good morning' to her, but with such a wicked look in his eyes, that if they had not been on the public road she was certain he would have eaten her up.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consid-er, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved; for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corrup-tions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my in- tentions.
-- But I shall not anticipate the reader with further de-scriptions of this kind, because I reserve them for a greater work, which is now almost ready for the press; containing a general description of this empire, from its first erection, through along series of princes; with a particular account of their wars and politics, laws, learning, and religion; their plants and animals; their peculiar manners and customs, with other matters very curious and useful; my chief design at present being only to relate such events and transactions as happened to the public or to myself during a residence of about nine months in that empire.
-- The emperor also confers on him some public mark of his favour, and proclamation is made of his innocence through the whole city.
-- In choosing persons for all employments, they have more regard to good morals than to great abilities; for, since government is necessary to mankind, they believe, that the common size of human understanding is fitted to some station or other; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age: but they sup-pose truth, justice, temperance, and the like, to be in every man's power; the practice of which virtues, assisted by ex-perience and a good intention, would qualify any man for the service of his country, except where a course of study is required.
-- But they thought the want of moral virtues was so far from being supplied by superior endowments of the mind, that employments could never be put into such dan- 67gerous hands as those of persons so qualified; and, at least, that the mistakes committed by ignorance, in a virtuous disposition, would never be of such fatal consequence to the public weal, as the practices of a man, whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and who had great abilities to man-age, to multiply, and defend his corruptions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In such terms Mr. Gradgrind always mentally introduced himself, whether to his private circle of acquaintance, or to the public in general.
-- Whatsoever the public meeting held in Coketown, and whatsoever the subject of such meeting, some Coketowner was sure to seize the occasion of alluding to his eminently practical friend Gradgrind.
-- All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white.
-- Then came the experienced chaplain of the jail, with more tabular statements, outdoing all the previous tabular statements, and showing that the same people would resort to low haunts, hidden from the public eye, where they heard low singing and saw low dancing, and mayhap joined in it; and where A.
-- Everything of father's had gone wrong that night, and he hadn't pleased the public at all.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am about to visit the public library.
-- In the centre of the new commercial street, I found the public cemetery, enclosed by an earthen wall.
-- The conversation turned upon scientific matters, and M. Fridriksson asked my uncle what he thought of the public library.
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