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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer saw nothing out of the common in the fact that a rich man had four or five mistresses; nay, she thought it very knowing of him to pass them off as his daughters.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest Frankensteinpractical advantage.
-- But it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-educated: for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild on a common and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas' books of voyages.
-- I am practi-cally industrious painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common path-ways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.
-- Taking with her some jewels that belonged to her and a sum of money, she quitted Italy with an atten-dant, a native of Leghorn, but who understood the common language of Turkey, and departed for Germany.
-- When I reflected on the work I had completed, no less a one than the creation of a sensitive and rational animal, I could not rank myself with the herd of common projectors.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even while she felt the hot blood of wrath still inher cheeks, something in Scarlett's practical mind prompted the thought that what this man said was right, and itsounded like common sense.
-- But she'd already acted common enough today, enough like white trash that was where all hertrouble lay.
-- It shocked her to realize that anyone asabsolutely perfect as Ashley could have any thought in common with such a reprobate as Rhett Butler.
-- Other people might call his utterances treachery but, toScarlett, they always rang with common sense and truth.
-- She had always thought that only common vulgar men visited such women.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, he is a common laboring boy!"
-- I took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard to look at my coarse hands and my common boots.
-- So, leaving word with the shopman on what day I was wanted at Miss Havisham's again, I set off on the four-mile walk to our forge; pondering, as I went along, on all I had seen, and deeply revolving that I was a common laboring-boy; that my hands were coarse; that my boots were thick; that I had fallen into a despicable habit of calling knaves Jacks; that I was much more ignorant than I had considered myself last night, and generally that I was in a low-lived bad way.
-- "Well, Pip," said Joe, "be it so or be it son't, you must be a common scholar afore you can be a oncommon one, I should hope!The king upon his throne, with his crown upon his ed, can't sit and write his acts of Parliament in print, without having begun, when he were a unpromoted Prince, with the alphabet.--Ah!"
-- "Whether common ones as to callings and earnings," pursued Joe, reflectively, "mightn't be the better of continuing for to keep company with common ones, instead of going out to play with oncommon ones,--which reminds me to hope that there were a flag, perhaps?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now,' said the grinder, as he gave him a common rough stone that lay by his side, 'this is a most capital stone; do but work it well enough, and you can make an old nail cut with it.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the advice of several worthy persons, to whom, with the author's permission, I communicated these papers, I now venture to send them into the world, hoping they may be, at least for some time, a better entertainment to our young noblemen, than the common scribbles of politics and party.
-- I desired you would let me know, by a letter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility's education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit, and learning rewarded; all disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
-- At the place where the carriage stopped there stood an ancient temple, esteemed to be the largest in the whole kingdom; which, having been polluted some years before 22 Gulliver's Travelsby an unnatural murder, was, according to the zeal of those people, looked upon as profane, and therefore had been applied to common use, and all the ornaments and furni-ture carried away.
-- As the common size of the natives is somewhat un-der six inches high, so there is an exact proportion in all other animals, as well as plants and trees: for instance, the tallest horses and oxen are between four and five inches in height, the sheep an inch and half, more or less: their geese about the bigness of a sparrow, and so the several grada-tions downwards till you come to the smallest, which to my sight, were almost invisible; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view: they see with great exactness, but at no great distance.
-- And, to show the sharpness of their sight towards objects that are near, I have been much pleased with observing a cook pull-ing a lark, which was not so large as a common fly; and a young girl threading an invisible needle with invisible silk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was certain to knock the wind out of common sense, and render that unlucky adversary deaf to the call of time.
-- This walk was common to all the male members of Sleary's company, and was understood to express, that they were always on horseback.
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