commonplace是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 普通的, 平凡的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm afraid all this is so commonplace that my confession will be taken for a school-boy exercise the work of some ambitious lad writing in the hope of his work 'seeing the light'; or perhaps my read-ers will say that 'I had perhaps something to say, but did not know how to express it.'
-- But for all this, the question remains, what are the novelists to do with commonplace people, and how are they to be presented to the reader in such a form as to be in the least degree interesting?
-- They cannot be left out -altogether, for commonplace people meet one at every turn of life, and to leave them out would be to destroy the whole reality and probability of the story.
-- In my opinion, the duty of the novelist is to seek out points of interest and in-struction even in the characters of commonplace people.
-- To this class of commonplace peo-ple belong several characters in this novel; characters which I admit I have not drawn very vividly up to now for my reader's benefit.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had got just so far, and the conversation began to crystallise, as it could but do with the scanty stream which the commonplace world supplied.
-- But the transition from a commonplace nature to one that is richly endowed, demands always a more or less breakneck leap over a certain abyss which yawns threateningly below; and thus must the sudden change with the clerk strike the read-er.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The commonplace room shone with peculiar light; the vigorous weeds and rough grass of the waste land were radiant under the April sun, and sparrows were cheeping.
-- Martin had always announced that he did not care for their approbation, for the applause of commonplace drudges, but now that he had it, he prized it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He soon discovered that Andrey Semyonovitch was a commonplace simpleton, but that by no means reassured Pyotr Petrovitch.
-- The fact was he had begun instinctively to guess that Lebeziatnikov was not merely a commonplace simple-ton, but, perhaps, a liar, too, and that he had no connections of any consequence even in his own circle, but had simply picked things up third-hand; and that very likely he did not even know much about his own work of propaganda, for he was in too great a muddle.
-- One has only to look at the thing quite independently, broadly, and uninfluenced by commonplace ideas, and my idea will by no means seem so 芒聙娄 strange.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was so ashamedto allude to a commonplace thing like my box, to a scholar and amaster at Salem House, that we had gone some little distance fromthe yard before I had the hardihood to mention it.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had received her doubtingly, if not cool-ly; and nothing beyond the merest commonplace had been talked almost all the time till just at last, when Mrs. Mar-tin's saying, all of a sudden, that she thought Miss Smith was grown, had brought on a more interesting subject, and a warmer manner.
-- 'Aye, that may suit your humble ideas of yourself; I know what a modest creature you are; but it will not satisfy your friends to have you taking up with any thing that may offer, any in-ferior, commonplace situation, in a family not moving in a certain circle, or able to command the elegancies of life.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hence, whilst he sometimes reached the brilliant in speech because that was spontaneous, he fell below the commonplace in action, from inability to guide incipient effort.
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：
-- After all, merely a man washing him-self, commonplace enough, Heaven knows!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'One last remark,' proceeded Flora, rejecting commonplace life with a wave of her hand, 'I wish to make, one last explanation I wish to offer, there was a time ere Mr F. first paid attentions incapable of being mistaken, but that is past and was not to be, dear Mr Clennam you no longer wear a golden chain you are free I trust you may be happy, here is Papa who is always tiresome and putting in his nose everywhere where he is not wanted.'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A lean-faced, rather commonplace woman recognised Carrie on the platform and hurried forward.
-- At Rector's he could always obtain this satisfaction, for there one could encounter politicians, brokers, actors, some rich young "rounders" of the town, all eating and drinking amid a buzz of popular commonplace conversation.
-- He had risen by perseverance and industry, through long years of service, from the position of barkeeper in a commonplace saloon to his present altitude.
-- Even then, in her commonplace garb, her figure was evidently not bad, and her eyes were large and gentle.
-- "He's delightful, delightful," he went on, giving the commonplace rendition of approval which such men know.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even had it been under commonplace circumstances, it would have made me a trifle thoughtful; but in the first place was the singulari-ty of an educated man living on this unknown little island, and coupled with that the extraordinary nature of his lug-gage.
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