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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a featureless convexity of chalk and soil an ordinary specimen of those smoothly-outlined protuberances of the globe which may remain undisturbed on some great day of confusion, when far grander heights and dizzy granite precipices topple down.
-- "True enough," said the man of bitter moods, looking round upon the company with the antithetic laughter that comes from a keener appreciation of the miseries of life than ordinary men are capable of.
-- The phases of Boldwood's life were ordinary enough, but his was not an ordinary nature.
-- It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the same on both sides.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eugene de Rastignac had just returned to Paris in a state of mind not unknown to young men who are conscious of unusual powers, and to those whose faculties are so stimulated by a difficult position, that for the time being they rise above the ordinary level.
-- The next morning Paris was wrapped in one of the dense fogs that throw the most punctual people out in their calculations as to the time; even the most business-like folk fail to keep their appointments in such weather, and ordinary mortals wake up at noon and fancy it is eight o'clock.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth was sad and desponding; she no longer took delight in her ordinary occupations; all pleasure seemed to her sacrilege toward the dead; eternal woe and tears she then thought was the just tribute she should pay to innocence so blasted and destroyed.
-- The possession of these treasures gave me extreme delight; I now continually studied and exercised my mind upon these histories, whilst my friends were employed in their ordinary occupations.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That doesn't sound like an ordinary moo."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I desired he would or-der several sticks of two feet high, and the thickness of an ordinary cane, to be brought me; whereupon his majesty commanded the master of his woods to give directions ac-cordingly; and the next morning six woodmen arrived with as many carriages, drawn by eight horses to each.
-- The nurseries for children of ordinary gentlemen, merchants, traders, and handicrafts, are managed propor-tionably after the same manner; only those designed for trades are put out apprentices at eleven years old, whereas those of persons of quality continue in their exercises till fifteen, which answers to twenty-one with us: but the con-70 Gulliver's Travelsfinement is gradually lessened for the last three years.
-- He appeared as tall as an ordinary spire steeple, and took about ten yards at ev-ery stride, as near as I could guess.
-- used to attend the king's levee once or twice a week, and I had often seen him under the barber's hand, which in-deed was at first very terrible to behold; for the razor was almost twice as long as an ordinary scythe.
-- There were three nags and two mares, not eating, but some of them sitting down upon their hams, which I very much wondered at; but won-dered more to see the rest employed in domestic business; these seemed but ordinary cattle.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed,' said she, 'if I could altogether cancel the remembrance that Mr. Sparsit was a Powler, or that I myself am related to the Scadgers family; or if I could even revoke the fact, and make myself a person of common descent and ordinary connexions; I would gladly do so.
-- In this condition, father for I show you now, without fear or favour, the ordinary deadened state of my mind as I know it you proposed my husband to me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle, on the other hand, was quite as devoted to his arsenal as to his collection of instruments, and above all was very careful with his provision of fulminating or gun cotton, warranted to keep in any climate, and of which the expansive force was known to be greater than that of ordinary gunpowder.
-- I dare not call it a perilous descent, for I was already too familiar with that sort of work to look upon it as anything but a very ordinary affair.
-- In truth, I was simply in the presence of a very ordinary product of the earth, of singular and gigantic proportions.
-- Hans, our worthy guide, thoroughly understood how to cook such eatables as we were able to provide; he had both fire and water at discretion, so that he was enabled slightly to vary the weary monotony of our ordinary repast.
-- To fly is, therefore, the course to be suggested by ordinary prudence.
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：
-- And so with most of the matters of ordinary life...how you make your money, or whether you love your wife, or if you have 'affairs'.
-- 'Why don't you speak ordinary English?'
-- New London was never very rich, and in ordinary times just got along decently.
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