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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They cared so little for plain Fact, these people, and were in that advanced state of degeneracy on the subject, that instead of being impressed by the speaker's strong common sense, they took it in extraordinary dudgeon.
-- They wondered about human nature, human passions, human hopes and fears, the struggles, triumphs and defeats, the cares and joys and sorrows, the lives and deaths of common men and women!They sometimes, after fifteen hours' work, sat down to read mere fables about men and women, more or less like themselves, and about children, more or less like their own.
-- I read in th' papers every 'Sizes, every Sessions and you read too I know it! with dismay how th' supposed unpossibility o' ever getting unchained from one another, at any price, on any terms, brings blood upon this land, and brings many common married fok to battle, murder, and sudden death.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Because Arne Saknussemm was persecuted for heresy, and in 1573 his works were publicly burnt at Copenhagen, by the hands of the common hangman."
-- This native of Iceland was active and supple in appearance, though he scarcely moved his arms, being in fact one of those men who despise the habit of gesticulation common to southern people.
-- Perhaps a common barometer would not have done as well, the atmospheric pressure being likely to increase in proportion as we descended below the surface of the earth.
-- As soon, however, as the inevitable soup was placed on the table, the natural taciturnity, common even to Icelandic babies, prevailed over all else.
-- The horrible affliction known as leprosy, which has almost vanished before the effects of modern science, is common in Iceland.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You stick to your side, I'll stick to mine!A strange denial of the common pulse of humanity.
-- And in the same way, unless you had some emotion or sympathy in common with a woman you wouldn't sleep with her.
-- She wondered very much about him; he seemed so unlike a game-keeper, so unlike a working-man anyhow; although he had something in common with the local people.
-- His 'tha mun come' seemed not addressed to her, but some common woman.
-- But among the common people there was no pretence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The turnkey conducted him trembling from head to foot, and constantly crying under his breath, What was he to do!while his irresolute fingers bedabbled the tears upon his face up one of the common staircases in the prison to a door on the garret story.
-- His children often had, and with his perfect acquiescence it had gone into the common purse to buy meat that he had eaten, and drink that he had drunk; but fustian splashed with white lime, bestowing halfpence on him, front to front, was new.
-- The Child of the MarshalseaThe baby whose first draught of air had been tinctured with Doctor Haggage's brandy, was handed down among the generations of collegians, like the tradition of their common parent.
-- With no earthly friend to help her, or so much as to see her, but the one so strangely assorted; with no knowledge even of the common daily tone and habits of the common members of the free community who are not shut up in prisons; born and bred in a social condition, false even with a reference to the falsest condition outside the walls; drinking from infancy of a well whose waters had their own peculiar stain, their own unwholesome and unnatural taste; the Child of the Marshalsea began her womanly life.
-- Pending which, the long-initiated Tip, with an awful enjoyment of the Snuggery's resources, pointed out the common kitchen fire maintained by subscription of collegians, the boiler for hot water supported in like manner, and other premises generally tending to the deduction that the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise, was to come to the Marshalsea.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How much has happened since I said that!It seems a year ago,' answered Meg, who was in a blissful dream lifted far above such common things as bread and butter.
-- Being brought up where wine is as common as water and almost as harmless, I don't care for it, but when a pretty girl offers it, one doesn't like to refuse, you see.'
-- When Amy had whetted her tongue and freed her mind she usually got the best of it, for she seldom failed to have common sense on her side, while Jo carried her love of lib-erty and hate of conventionalities to such an unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argu-ment.
-- But having giv-en the rein to her lively fancy, it galloped away with her at a great pace, and common sense, being rather weakened by a long course or romance writing, did not come to the rescue.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it is a common name in Nantucket, they say, and I suppose this Peter here is an emigrant from there.
-- How I snuffed that Tartar air! how I spurned that turnpike earth! that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records.
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