ordinary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， 平常的； 平庸的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of us at Tellson's are getting old, and we really can't be troubled out of the ordinary course without due occasion.'
-- The gaoler standing at his side, and the other gaolers moving about, who would have been well enough as to appearance in the ordinary exercise of their functions, looked so extravagantly coarse contrast-ed with sorrowing mothers and blooming daughters who were there with the apparitions of the coquette, the young beauty, and the mature woman delicately bred that the in-version of all experience and likelihood which the scene of shadows presented, was heightened to its utmost.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged by himself, and he could not himself have loved any but beautiful, mysterious, and exceptional women.
-- He so well knew that feeling of Levin's, that for him all the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class--all the girls in the world except her, and those girls with all sorts of human weaknesses, and very ordinary girls: the other class--she alone, having no weaknesses of any sort and higher than all humanity.
-- He had thought his engagement would have nothing about it like others, that the ordinary conditions of engaged couples would spoil his special happiness; but it ended in his doing exactly as other people did, and his happiness being only increased thereby and becoming more and more special, more and more unlike anything that had ever happened.
-- Even my ordinary pursuits I have almost given up.
-- Answering inquiries about the disposition of Anna Arkadyevna's rooms and belongings, he had exercised immense self-control to appear like a man in whose eyes what had occurred was not unforeseen nor out of the ordinary course of events, and he attained his aim: no one could have detected in him signs of despair.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Cisco was reached at seven in the morning; and an hour later the dormitory was transformed into an ordinary car, and the travellers could observe the picturesque beauties of the mountain region through which they were steaming.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- VII For all his devotion to Max Gottlieb's pessimistic view of the human intellect, Martin had believed that there was such a thing as progress, that events meant something, that people could learn something, that if Madeline had once admitted she was an ordinary young woman who occasionally failed, then she was saved.
-- Or maybe a great scientist like you, that's so superior to ordinary people, is too good for cherry blossoms!"
-- But I am stupid and ordinary and She isn't.
-- And ordinary physicians are admirable and altogether necessary--perhaps.
-- Whether or not he loved her, whether he was capable of ordinary domestic affection, could not be discovered.
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：
-- The question why he was now going to Razumihin agi- tated him even more than he was himself aware; he kept uneasily seeking for some sinister significance in this ap- parently ordinary action.
-- It was a very ordinary matter and there was nothing exceptional about it.
-- Of course, it was all ordinary youthful talk and thought, such as he had often heard before in different forms and on different themes.
-- It was an ordinary summons from the district police-station to ap-pear that day at half-past nine at the office of the district superintendent.
-- he said, taking out of the bundle a fairly good though cheap and ordinary cap.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father had often hinted that she seldom conductedherself like any ordinary Christian; and now, instead of ringing thebell, she came and looked in at that identical window, pressing theend of her nose against the glass to that extent that my poor dearmother used to say it became perfectly flat and white in a moment.
-- I was so conscious of having passed throughscenes of which they could have no knowledge, and of havingacquired experiences foreign to my age, appearance, and conditionas one of them, that I half believed it was an imposture to comethere as an ordinary little school-boy.
-- I took that opportunity,with my voice sticking in my throat, and my sight failing as Iuttered the words, to express my hope that Miss Spenlow wasquite well; to which Mr. Spenlow replied, with no more emotionthan if he had been speaking of an ordinary human being, that hewas much obliged to me, and she was very well.
-- Under ordinary circumstances, Ishould scruple to entreat the indulgence of Miss Trotwood andMiss Wickfield, but-' 'I can only say for myself.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landed property of Hart-166 Emmafield certainly was inconsiderable, being but a sort of notch in the Donwell Abbey estate, to which all the rest of High-bury belonged; but their fortune, from other sources, was such as to make them scarcely secondary to Donwell Abbey itself, in every other kind of consequence; and the Wood-houses had long held a high place in the consideration of the neighbourhood which Mr. Elton had first entered not two years ago, to make his way as he could, without any alliances but in trade, or any thing to recommend him to notice but his situation and his civility. But he had fan-cied her in love with him; that evidently must have been his dependence; and after raving a little about the seeming incongruity of gentle manners and a conceited head, Emma was obliged in common honesty to stop and admit that her own behaviour to him had been so complaisant and oblig-ing, so full of courtesy and attention, as (supposing her real motive unperceived) might warrant a man of ordinary ob-servation and delicacy, like Mr. Elton, in fancying himself a very decided favourite.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and a coat like Dr. Johnson's; his lower extremities being encased in ordinary leather leggings and boots emphatically large, affording to each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand in a river all day long and know nothing of damp their maker being a conscientious man who endeavoured to compensate for any weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity.
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