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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the presence of Hans and many stray scraps of information by degrees modified public opinion.
-- A public meeting of the Johanneum Institution was held, at which the Professor related the whole story of his adventures, omitting only the facts in connection with the compass.
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：
-- The public responds now only to an appeal to its vices.
-- And she also simply could not stand the thought of a public scandal about her sister and a game-keeper.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently the rain began to fall in slanting lines between him and those houses, and people began to collect under cover of the public passage opposite, and to look out hopelessly at the sky as the rain dropped thicker and faster.
-- On these truly British occasions, the smugglers, if any, made a feint of walking into the strong cells and the blind alley, while this somebody pretended to do his something: and made a reality of walking out again as soon as he hadn't done it neatly epitomising the administration of most of the public affairs in our right little, tight little, island.
-- He received the gifts as tributes, from admirers, to a public character.
-- She also stumbled, with a large balance of success against her failures, through various philanthropic recommendations to Try our Mixture, Try our Family Black, Try our Orange-flavoured Pekoe, challenging competition at the head of Flowery Teas; and various cautions to the public against spurious establishments and adulterated articles.
-- No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- bowing with the air of one accustomed to public praise, he stole to the cavern and ordered Hagar to come forth with a commanding, 'What ho, minion!I need thee!'
-- THE PUBLIC BEREAVEMENT It is our painful duty to record the sudden and mysteri-ous disappearance of our cherished friend, Mrs. Snowball Pat Paw.
-- Then came the hours of suspense, during which she vi-brated from parlor to porch, while public opinion varied like the weathercock.
-- But the novel di-saster quenched her courage for a time, for public opinion is a giant which has frightened stouter-hearted Jacks on bigger beanstalks than hers.
-- She excited the suspicions of public librarians by asking for works on poisons.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Crossing this dusky entry, and on through yon low-arched way cut through what in old times must have been a great central chimney with fireplaces all round you enter the public room.
-- Enough, that when breakfast was over he withdrew like the rest into the public room, lighted his tomahawk-pipe, and was sitting there quietly digesting and smoking with his inseparable hat on, when I sallied out for a stroll.
-- One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record.
-- I do not wish to seem inelegant, but this unsightly whale looks much like an amputated sow; and, as for the narwhale, one glimpse at it is enough to amaze one, that in this nineteenth century such a hippogriff could be palmed for genuine upon any intelligent public of schoolboys.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- OLIVER TWIST OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS BY CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER I TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
-- And this was it: The members of this board were very sage, deep, philosophical men; and when they came to turn their attention to the workhouse, they found out at once, what ordinary folks would never have discovered--the poor people liked it!It was a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes; a tavern where there was nothing to pay; a public breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper all the year round; a brick and mortar elysium, where it was all play and no work.
-- Of this festive composition each boy had one porringer, and no more-- except on occasions of great public rejoicing, when he had two ounces and a quarter of bread besides.
-- As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where th e boys dined, and there sociably flogged as a public warning and example.
-- The next morning, the public were once informed that Oliver Twist was again To Let, and that five pounds would be paid to anybody who would take possession of him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It may perhaps be pleasant,' replied Charlotte, 'to be able to impose on the public in such a case; but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded.
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