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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "After all, she's got the sense to know we're not just the ordinary run," said Gudrun.
-- And I'd rather have somebody I detested, than the ordinary woman who keeps to her own set.
-- "Here are two leaders " he held out his Daily Telegraph, "full of the ordinary newspaper cant " he scanned the columns down "and then there's this little I dunno what you'd call it, essay, almost appearing with the leaders, and saying there must arise a man who will give new values to things, give us new truths, a new attitude to life, or else we shall be a crumbling nothingness in a few years, a country in ruin ""I suppose that's a bit of newspaper cant, as well," said Birkin.
-- It was an ordinary London sitting-room in a flat, evidently taken furnished, rather common and ugly.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, in my dream, Jabez had a full and attentive congregation; and he preached good God!what a sermon; divided into FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY parts, each fully equal to an ordinary address from the pulpit, and each discussing a separate sin!Where he searched for them, I cannot tell.
-- The spectre showed a spectre's ordinary caprice: it gave no sign of being; but the snow and wind whirled wildly through, even reaching my station, and blowing out the light.
-- Ah, I thought, there will be no saving him: he's doomed, and flies to his fate!And so it was: he turned abruptly, hastened into the house again, shut the door behind him; and when I went in a while after to inform them that Earnshaw had come home rabid drunk, ready to pull the whole place about our ears (his ordinary frame of mind in that condition), I saw the quarrel had merely effected a closer intimacy had broken the outworks of youthful timidity, and enabled them to forsake the disguise of friendship, and confess themselves lovers.
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