common是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 普通的； 共同的； 一般的n. 公有地，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.'
-- The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
-- His few common tools and various scraps of leather were at his feet and on his bench.
-- From the Pal-ace of the Tuileries, through Monseigneur and the whole Court, through the Chambers, the Tribunals of Justice, and all society (except the scarecrows), the Fancy Ball de-scended to the Common Executioner: who, in pursuance of the charm, was required to officiate 'frizzled, powdered, in a gold-laced coat, pumps, and white silk stockings.'
-- It ap-peared, under the circumstances, rather agreeable to him to see the common people dispersed before his horses, and often barely escaping from being run down.
-- But, few cared enough for that to think of it a second time, and, in this matter, as in all others, the common wretches were left to get out of their difficulties as they could.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat lifeless on the steps: the morning-star,* that is to say, the heavy wooden staff, headed with iron spikes, and which had nothing else in common with its sparkling brother in the sky, had glided from his hand; while his eyes were fixed with glassy stare on the moon, looking for the good old fellow of a spirit which still haunted it.
-- A stout stately dame received them with a smile; but she expressed much dissatisfaction that a common field-bird, as she called the lark, should appear in such high society.
-- Now they lived a very lonely and happy life; and as they had no children themselves, they had adopted a little com-mon snail, which they brought up as their own; but the little one would not grow, for he was of a common family; but the old ones, especially Dame Mother Snail, thought they could observe how he increased in size, and she begged fa-ther, if he could not see it, that he would at least feel the little snail's shell; and then he felt it, and found the good dame was right.
-- 'But you yourself do not belong to the common order; and I, as you know well, have from a child followed in your footsteps.
-- Other persons have a common shadow, but I do not like what is common to all.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys.
-- A secretary, with the good- humored deference common to every one in Stepan Arkadyevitch's office, came up with papers, and began to speak in the familiar and easy tone which had been introduced by Stepan Arkadyevitch.
-- He did not know that his mode of behavior in relation to Kitty had a definite character, that it is courting young girls with no intention of marriage, and that such courting is one of the evil actions common among brilliant young men such as he was.
-- Talking about common acquaintances in Petersburg, Anna got up quickly.
-- They were speaking of common acquaintances, keeping up the most trivial conversation, but to Kitty it seemed that every word they said was determining their fate and hers.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That wouldn't be common sense.
-- Phileas Fogg had not concealed from Sir Francis his design of going round the world, nor the circumstances under which he set out; and the general only saw in the wager a useless eccentricity and a lack of sound common sense.
-- Common prudence urged them to retire, and they did so, followed by Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis.
-- Instead of sailing directly from England to the United States, like a common villain, he had traversed three quarters of the globe, so as to gain the American continent more surely; and there, after throwing the police off his track, he would quietly enjoy himself with the fortune stolen from the bank.
-- His common sense pitied, above all, the husband.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Above, in a border of laurel wreaths and Ionic capitals, was the challenge: Sing not the glory of soldiers or explorers or statesmen for who can touch the doctor--wise, heroic, uncontaminated by common greed.
-- In their common misery they forgot that they had been agitated by a girl named Orchid.
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