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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is the protest of romance against the commonplace of life.
-- If, seized by an intolerable boredom, he had determined to be a painter merely to break with irksome ties, it would have been comprehensible, and commonplace; but commonplace is precisely what I felt he was not.
-- My commonplace scheme was, after all, effective, for in the second shop we asked at the woman behind the counter acknowledged that she knew him.
-- I suppose it was commonplace in me that I felt slightly outraged at his lack of spirit.
-- No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
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：
-- "But you'll find that the really chic thing is to be so absolutely ordinary, so perfectly commonplace and like the person in the street, that you really are a masterpiece of humanity, not the person in the street actually, but the artistic creation of her ""How awful!"
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