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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, as is easily understood, the Government opposed his plans, and put difficulties enough in his way to have killed an ordinary man.
-- She had two masts and all the sails and rigging of an ordinary clipper, which would enable her to take advantage of every favorable wind, though her chief reliance was on her mechanical power.
-- This man was endowed in an eminent degree, not only with ordinary animal courage, that physical bravery of the battle-field, which is solely due to muscular energy, but he had what is far nobler—moral courage, firmness of soul.
-- Every arrangement had been made to insure safety and speed, for crossing the Andes is something more than an ordinary journey.
-- But the track they were following was one little frequented by the natives, for the ordinary routes across the Pampas lie further north.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course, if Dr. Mortimer's surmise should be correct, and we are dealing with forces outside the ordinary laws of Nature, there is an end of our investigation.
-- 'I think anything out of the ordinary routine of life well worth reporting.'
-- But I hope that to lose one of your boots is not part of the ordinary rou-tine of life over here.'
-- 'Well, he asked me for anything outside the ordinary routine.'
-- You see, it isn't like any ordinary convict.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this place, then, I resolved to fulfil my design; and accordingly I prepared two muskets and my ordinary fowling-piece.
-- The next morning our guide was so ill, and his limbs swelled so much with the rankling of his two wounds, that he could go no farther; so we were obliged to take a new guide here, and go to Toulouse, where we found a warm cli-mate, a fruitful, pleasant country, and no snow, no wolves, nor anything like them; but when we told our story at Tou-louse, they told us it was nothing but what was ordinary in the great forest at the foot of the mountains, especially when the snow lay on the ground; but they inquired much what kind of guide we had got who would venture to bring us that way in such a severe season, and told us it was surpris-ing we were not all devoured.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he conducted himself with propriety in the discharge of his ordinary duties.
-- The house and the garden, with all the objects surrounding them, were now become familiar, and the ordinary pursuits which had given to Norland half its charms were engaged in again with far greater enjoyment than Norland had been able to afford, since the loss of their father.
-- Their favour increased; they could not be spared; Sir John would not hear of their going; and in spite of their numerous and long arranged engagements in Exeter, in spite of the absolute necessity of returning to fulfill them immediately, which was in full force at the end of every week, they were prevailed on to stay nearly two months at the park, and to assist in the due celebration of that festival which requires a more than ordinary share of private balls and large dinners to proclaim its importance.
-- About the third or fourth morning after their being thus resettled in Berkeley Street, Mrs. Jennings, on returning from her ordinary visit to Mrs. Palmer, entered the drawing-room, where Elinor was sitting by herself, with an air of such hurrying importance as prepared her to hear something wonderful; and giving her time only to form that idea, began directly to justify it, by saying,"Lord!my dear Miss Dashwood!have you heard the news?"
-- He had more than the ordinary triumph of accepted love to swell his heart, and raise his spirits.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With rare exceptions the meals were acceptable, being the kind that an ordinary servant can arrange.
-- He would enjoy this new gift over and above his ordinary allowance of pleasure.
-- She could not repress her delight in doing this little thing which, to an ordinary observer, had no importance at all.
-- In the morning he came over from the hotel and opened his mail, but there was nothing in it outside the ordinary run.
-- He walked the floor again, pretending to be in an ordinary mood, but secretly troubled beyond the expression of words.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBy Mark TwainEXPLANATORY N this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Mis-Isouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary 'Pike County' dialect; and four modified varieties of this last.
-- Jim can do that; and when he wants to send any little common ordinary mysterious message to let the world know where he's captivated, he can write it on the bottom of a tin plate with a fork and throw it out of the window.
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