usually是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 通常， 平常，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In the polite circles I believe this sort of thing isn't usually said to a gentleman in his own apartments, but never mind that.
-- Mr Swiveller's conduct in respect to Miss Sophy having been of that vague and dilatory kind which is usually looked upon as betokening no fixed matrimonial intentions, the young lady herself began in course of time to deem it highly desirable, that it should be brought to an issue one way or other.
-- Standing, however, being a tiresome attitude to a gentleman already fatigued with walking, and the dwarf being one of that kind of persons who usually make themselves at home, he soon cast his eyes upon a chair, into which he skipped with uncommon agility, and perching himself on the back with his feet upon the seat, was thus enabled to look on and listen with greater comfort to himself, besides gratifying at the same time that taste for doing something fantastic and monkey-like, which on all occasions had strong possession of him.
-- Mr Brass, after writhing about, in a great many strange attitudes, and often twisting his face and eyes into an expression like that which is usually produced by eating gooseberries very early in the season, was by this time awake also.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the examination of the witnesses and the expert, and after all the unnecessary questions by the prosecutor and the attorneys, usually made with an important air, the justiciary told the jury to look at the exhibits, which consisted of an enormous ring with a diamond rosette, evidently made for the forefinger, and a glass tube containing the poison.
-- It happens to everybody, and if one is guided by common sense the matter is usually arranged and forgotten, and one lives on like the rest of the world," said Agrippina Petrovna, sternly and seriously.
-- And, as it usually happened when he spoke of this, his eyes filled with tears.
-- It is usually thought that a thief or murderer, acknowledging the harmfulness of his occupation, ought to be ashamed of it.
-- Nekhludoff had scarcely asked the porter where Michael Ivanovich (Maslenikoff) was, when the latter appeared on the carpeted stairway, escorting a very important guest, such as he usually escorted not to the upper landing, but to the vestibule.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His pale grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated.
-- Their sentences were usually simple and of two words, and I failed to convey or understand any but the simplest propositions.
-- The palpitating greyness grew darker; then though I was still travelling with prodigious velocity the blinking succession of day and night, which was usually indicative of a slower pace, returned, and grew more and more marked.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the main that's the big un, with the cloud on it they usually calls the Spy-glass, by reason of a lookout they kept when they was in the anchorage cleaning, for it's there they cleaned their ships, sir, asking your pardon."
-- Water would have been little to their taste; a sailor is not usually a good shot; and besides all that, when they were so short of eatables, it was not likely they would be very flush of powder.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Nautilus usually floated between fifty and a hundred fathoms deep.
-- What gamblers usually regret above all is less the loss of their money than of their foolish hopes.
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：
-- "Well," she said, ironically, "it usually means one thing!But don't you think anyhow, you'd be " she darkened slightly "in a better position than you are in now."
-- And he did it so well, taking the tone of his surroundings, adjusting himself quickly to his interlocutor and his circumstance, that he achieved a verisimilitude of ordinary commonplaceness that usually propitiated his onlookers for the moment, disarmed them from attacking his singleness.
-- "We are usually to time," said Mr Crich.
-- "Don't you usually go first?"
-- Gudrun, who was usually frightened of cattle, now shook her head in a queer, half-doubtful, half-sardonic motion, a faint smile round her mouth.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, he would have carpeted and papered a small spare room for a parlour; but his wife expressed such pleasure at the white floor and huge glowing fireplace, at the pewter dishes and delf case, and dog kennel, and the wide space there was to move about in where they usually sat, that he thought it unnecessary to her comfort, and so dropped the intention.
-- We were busy with the hay in a far away field, when the girl that usually brought our breakfasts came running an hour too soon across the meadow and up the lane, calling me as she ran.
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