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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Switzerland, of all places!Now that is an ordinary English hand.
-- At the same time his grasp of things in general soon showed Totski that he now had to deal with a being who was outside the pale of the ordinary rules of traditional behaviour, and who would not only threaten mischief but would undoubtedly carry it out, and stop for no one.
-- I see that you are quite an ordinary man, not original in the least degree, but rather weak.'
-- Now mark this, prince there is nothing so offensive to a man of our time and race than to be told that he is wanting in originality, that he is weak in character, has no particular talent, and is, in short, an ordinary person.
-- 'I told you she wasn't an ordinary woman,' replied the lat-ter, who was as pale as anyone.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wodger, of the "Purple Fawn," and Mr. Jaggers, the cobbler, who also sold old second-hand ordinary bicycles, were stretching a string of union-jacks and royal ensigns (which had originally celebrated the first Victorian Jubilee) across the road.
-- I am just an ordinary man a man you have known made invisible."
-- Some kinds of glass would be more visible than others, a box of flint glass would be brighter than a box of ordinary window glass.
-- She was a very ordinary person.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is quite impossible for the ordinary reader to imagine those eight days.
-- He had evidently been a very ordinary medical student, and drifted incontinently to the topic of the music halls.
-- Hunter's cock-spur possibly you have heard of that flourished on the bull's neck; and the rhinoceros rats of the Algerian zouaves are also to be thought of, monsters manufactured by transfer-ring a slip from the tail of an ordinary rat to its snout, and allowing it to heal in that position.'
-- I say I became habituated to the Beast People, that a thousand things which had seemed unnatural and repul-sive speedily became natural and ordinary to me.
-- Of course these creatures did not decline into such beasts as the reader has seen in zoological gardens, into ordinary bears, wolves, tigers, oxen, swine, and apes.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Erect, his stature surpassed that of his fellows; though seated, he appeared reduced within the ordinary limits of the race.
-- The river glanced by with its ordinary velocity, but the canoe was nowhere to be seen on its dark waters.
-- There will be no necessity to employ an ordinary interpreter; for, in your hands, I feel the same security as if I spoke your language myself.'
-- Those acute and long-practised senses, whose powers so often exceed the limits of all ordinary credulity, after having detected the danger, had enabled them to ascertain its magnitude and duration.
-- A ragged calico mantle half encircled his body, while his nether garment was com-posed of an ordinary shirt, the sleeves of which were made to perform the office that is usually executed by a much more commodious arrangement.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its limbs were gnarled and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth, and rising again into the air.
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：
-- Yet he looked ordinary enough.
-- The great majority are perfectly content to do the ordinary thing."
-- The words were ordinary enough, and to my mind there was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled.
-- Until he married he led the ordinary life of his fellows, gambling mildly on the Exchange, interested to the extent of a sovereign or two on the result of the Derby or the Oxford and Cambridge Race.
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