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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the hour she reached the steamboat quay at Glasgow, she completely monopolized the public attention.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I cannot see that London has any great advantage over the country, for my part, except the shops and public places.
-- Perhaps by and by I may observe that private balls are much pleasanter than public ones.
-- Re-gard for my sister's credit and feelings prevented any public exposure; but I wrote to Mr. Wickham, who left the place immediately, and Mrs. Younge was of course removed from her charge.
-- To have his errors made public might ruin him for ever.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They listened always very attentively to my discourses on these heads, but especially to that part which related to the buying of negroes, which was a trade at that time, not only not far entered into, but, as far as it was, had been carried on by assientos, or permission of the kings of Spain and Portu-gal, and engrossed in the public stock: so that few negroes were bought, and these excessively dear.
-- As to the crimes they were guilty of towards one another, I had nothing to do with them; they were national, and I ought to leave them to the justice of God, who is the Governor of nations, and knows how, by national punishments, to make a just retri-bution for national offences, and to bring public judgments upon those who offend in a public manner, by such ways as best please Him.
-- He said I might do so if I pleased, but that if I did not, there were ways enough to secure my right, and immediately to appropri-ate the profits to my use: and as there were ships in the river of Lisbon just ready to go away to Brazil, he made me enter my name in a public register, with his affidavit, affirming, upon oath, that I was alive, and that I was the same person who took up the land for the planting the said plantation at first.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hope my mother is now convinced that I have no more talents than inclination for a public life!"
-- "That is very true," replied her mother, "but of her society, separately from that of other people, you will scarcely have any thing at all, and you will almost always appear in public with Lady Middleton."
-- "In this affair it can only do harm; more so perhaps than in many cases of a similar kind, for it has been attended by circumstances which, for the sake of every one concerned in it, make it unfit to become the public conversation.
-- She had taken care to have the intelligence conveyed to herself, as soon as it was known that the ceremony was over, as she was desirous that Marianne should not receive the first notice of it from the public papers, which she saw her eagerly examining every morning.
-- Why they WERE different, Robert exclaimed to her himself in the course of a quarter of an hour's conversation; for, talking of his brother, and lamenting the extreme GAUCHERIE which he really believed kept him from mixing in proper society, he candidly and generously attributed it much less to any natural deficiency, than to the misfortune of a private education; while he himself, though probably without any particular, any material superiority by nature, merely from the advantage of a public school, was as well fitted to mix in the world as any other man.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore he was circumspect in all he did, and whenever he appeared in the public ways in the afternoon, or on Sunday, it was with his wife, and sometimes his children.
-- At the stable he picked a gentle horse, and they were soon out of range of either public observation or hearing.
-- "'Under the Gaslight,'" said Mr. Quincel, mentioning Augustin Daly's famous production, which had worn from a great public success down to an amateur theatrical favourite, with many of the troublesome accessories cut out and the dramatis personae reduced to the smallest possible number.
-- There was, however, at this time, one theatre, the Chicago Opera House, which was considerably in the public eye, and its manager, David A. Henderson, had a fair local reputation.
-- Chapter XL A PUBLIC DISSENSION--A FINAL APPEAL There was no after-theatre lark, however, so far as Carrie was concerned.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, you see, funeral orgies is an open er public funeral.'
-- Well, they held the auction in the public square, along towards the end of the afternoon, and it strung along, and strung along, and the old man he was on hand and look-ing his level pisonest, up there longside of the auctioneer, and chipping in a little Scripture now and then, or a lit-tle goody-goody saying of some kind, and the duke he was around goo-gooing for sym- pathy all he knowed how, and just spreading himself generly.
-- Then in an- other village they started a dancing-school; but they didn't know no more how to dance than a kangaroo does; so the first prance they made the general public jumped in and pranced them out of town.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when he reached it, remembering his donkey ears, he felt ashamed to show them to the public and turned back.
-- The announcements, posted all around the town, and written in large letters, read thus: GREAT SPECTACLE TONIGHT LEAPS AND EXERCISES BY THE GREAT ARTISTS AND THE FAMOUS HORSES of the COMPANY First Public Appearance of the FAMOUS DONKEY called PINOCCHIO THE STAR OF THE DANCE ---- The Theater will be as Light as Day That night, as you can well imagine, the theater was filled to overflowing one hour before the show was scheduled to start.
-- When the first part of the performance was over, the Owner and Manager of the circus, in a black coat, white knee breeches, and patent leather boots, presented himself to the public and in a loud, pompous voice made the following announcement: "Most honored friends, Gentlemen and Ladies!
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