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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited.
-- Such was the last fact, which resulted in exciting once more the torrent of public opinion.
-- The public demanded sharply that the seas should at any price be relieved from this formidable cetacean.
-- As public interest was in question, and transatlantic communications suffered, their veracity could not be doubted.
-- But how admit that the construction of this submarine boat had escaped the public eye?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was passionately interested in reform, her soul was given up to the public cause.
-- With all that was highest, whether in society or in thought or in public action, or even in art, she was at one, she moved among the foremost, at home with them.
-- WATER-PARTYEvery year Mr Crich gave a more or less public water-party on the lake.
-- I'm damned if I'm going to be made a fool of in this fashion, in the public road."
-- They hated his words "in the public road."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust.
-- The public costume of the young people was of the Highland kind, but the night being damp and cold, the young gentleman wore over his kilt a man's pea jacket reaching to his ankles, and a glazed hat; the young lady too was muffled in an old cloth pelisse and had a handkerchief tied about her head.
-- 'Once get a giant shaky on his legs, and the public care no more about him than they do for a dead cabbage stalk.'
-- At length the path becoming clearer and less intricate, brought them to the end of the wood, and into a public road.
-- When she had exhibited these leviathans of public announcement to the astonished child, she brought forth specimens of the lesser fry in the shape of hand-bills, some of which were couched in the form of parodies on popular melodies, as 'Believe me if all Jarley's wax-work so rare' 'I saw thy show in youthful prime' 'Over the water to Jarley;' while, to consult all tastes, others were composed with a view to the lighter and more facetious spirits, as a parody on the favourite air of 'If I had a donkey,' beginning,If I know'd a donkey wot wouldn't goTo see Mrs JARLEY'S wax-work show,Do you think I'd acknowledge him?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything proceeded smoothly, quickly and not without solemnity, and the regularity, order and solemnity evidently pleased the participants, confirming their sense of rendering important public service.
-- At this point the assistant public prosecutor half rose from his seat, uncomfortably resting on one elbow.
-- The usher told him that the prisoners were kept in various places, and that before final judgment the public prosecutor was the only person from whom permission to see them could be obta ined.
-- "I see, but you understand that, as public prosecutor, I cannot agree with you.
-- From the public prosecutor Nekhludoff went straight to the detention-house.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The squire had had everything repaired, and the public rooms and the sign repainted, and had added some furniture above all a beautiful armchair for mother in the bar.
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