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：
-- Ayrton would doubtless have found himself very much embarrassed if a little inn, a miserable public house, had not suddenly presented itself.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Those are the public facts, Mr. Holmes, in connection with the death of Sir Charles Baskerville.'
-- This ar-ticle, you say, contains all the public facts?'
-- My motive for withholding it from the coroner's inquiry is that a man of science shrinks from placing himself in the public position of seeming to indorse a popular superstition.
-- 'There were many insignificant sums to individuals, and a large number of public charities.
-- 'The man is a public danger.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- General Epanchin, as ev-eryone knew, had a good deal to do with certain government monopolies; he was also a voice, and an important one, in many rich public companies of various descriptions; in fact, he enjoyed the reputation of being a wellto-do man of busy habits, many ties, and affluent means.
-- It was the writing current then, and employed by public writers gen-erally.
-- When the mother died, the village parson was not ashamed to hold Marie up to public derision and shame.
-- He looked as though he did not take his salary from the public company, whose servant he was, for a sinecure.
-- Perhaps public opinion is wrong in condemning one sex, and excusing the other.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tell him all as I now bid you, and tell him in public that the Achaeans may hate him and beware of him should he think that he can yet dupe others for his effrontery never fails him.
-- As a man skilled in feats of horsemanship couples four horses together and comes tearing full speed along the public way from the country into some large town many both men and women marvel as they see him for he keeps all the time changing his horse, springing from one to another without ever missing his feet while the horses are at a gallop even so did Ajax go striding from one ship's deck to another, and his voice went up into the heavens.
-- 'My friends,' he cried, 'princes and counsellors of the Argives, all you who with Agamem-non and Menelaus drink at the public cost, and give orders each to his own people as Jove vouchsafes him power and glory, the fight is so thick about me that I cannot distinguish you severally; come on, therefore, every man unbidden, and think it shame that Patroclus should become meat and mor-sel for Trojan hounds.'
-- Nine days, therefore, will we mourn Hector in my house; on the tenth day we will bury him and there shall be a public feast in his honour; on the eleventh we will build a mound over his ashes, and on the twelfth, if there be need, we will fight.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her visitor had had an accident, she said, which temporarily discoloured his face and hands, and being of a sensitive disposition, he was averse to any public notice of the fact.
-- "But a fool of a cabman, standing outside a public house, made a sudden rush for this, and his extending fingers took me with excruciating violence under the ear.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With that understood, there seems no harm in putting this strange story before the public in accordance, as I believe, with my uncle's intentions.
-- Others even attempted public outrages upon the institution of monog-amy.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the palace you could see the rows and rows of roofless houses that made up the city looking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits and dimples at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Tis the six-and-twentieth edition, promul-gated at Boston, Anno Domini 1744; and is entitled, 'The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments; faithfully translated into English Metre, for the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints, in Public and Private, especially in New England'.'
-- It was the principal edifice of the village, though roughly constructed of the bark and branches of trees; being the lodge in which the tribe held its councils and public meetings during their temporary residence on the borders of the English province.
-- On reaching the entrance, the younger men in advance made way for their seniors; and the whole proceeded along the low, dark gallery, with the firmness of warriors ready to devote themselves to the public good, though, at the same time, secretly doubting the nature of the power with which they were about to contend.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked upon life as an opportunity for writing novels and the public as her raw material.
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