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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is the common practice on all ships when a shark is captured, but Lady Glenarvan declined to be present at such a disgusting exploration, and withdrew to the cabin again.
-- His eyes were concealed by enormous round spectacles, and in his look was that peculiar indecision which is common to nyctalopes, or people who have a peculiar construction of the eye, which makes the sight imperfect in the day and better at night.
-- His thoughts reverted involuntarily to those frightened animals flying in one common direction, impelled by one common terror.
-- The saddle was adapted to the two hunting weapons in common use on the Argentine plains—the BOLAS and the LAZO.
-- And he went on to explain that this PAMPERO is very common in the Argentine plains.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is only two years since he took up his residence at Baskerville Hall, and it is common talk how large were those schemes of recon-struction and improvement which have been interrupted by his death.
-- It was of common quality, grayish in colour.
-- 'There is nothing in common between my father and me,' she said.
-- It is sugges-tive that Anthony is not a common name in England, while Antonio is so in all Spanish or Spanish-American countries.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His black-haired neighbour inspected these peculiarities, having nothing better to do, and at length remarked, with that rude enjoyment of the discomforts of others which the common classes so often show: 'Cold?'
-- That is, of course, if you really are a relative of Mrs. Epanchin's, and have not made a little error through well, absence of mind, which is very common to human beings; or, say through a too luxuriant fancy?'
-- The prince's conversation was artless and confiding to a degree, and the servant could not help feeling that as from visitor to common serving-man this state of things was highly improper.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The entire metropolitan centre possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant, and to make the gulf between poverty and success seem both wide and deep.
-- To avoid a certain indefinable shame she felt at being caught spying about for a position, she quickened her steps and assumed an air of indifference supposedly common to one upon an errand.
-- This, and washing his face with the aid of common washing soap until it glowed a shiny red, constituted his only preparation for his evening meal.
-- Carrie, however, was not to be reduced to the common level of observation which prevailed in the flat.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when he done it the third time he says: 'I say orgies, not because it's the common term, because it ain't obsequies bein' the common term but because orgies is the right term.
-- But next minute I whirled in on a kind of an expla-nation how a valley was different from a common servant and HAD to go to church whether he wanted to or not, and set with the family, on ac- count of its being the law.
-- 'Many makes it out of iron-rust and tears; but that's the common sort and women; the best authori- ties uses their own blood.
-- Jim can do that; and when he wants to send any little common ordinary mysterious message to let the world know where he's captivated, he can write it on the bottom of a tin plate with a fork and throw it out of the window.
-- He says: 'On the scutcheon we'll have a bend OR in the dexter base, a saltire MURREY in the fess, with a dog, couchant, for common charge, and under his foot a chain embattled, for slavery, with a chevron VERT in a chief engrailed, and three invected lines on a field AZURE, with the nombril points rampant on a dancette indented; crest, a runaway nigger, SABLE, with his bundle over his shoulder on a bar sinister; and a couple of gules for supporters, which is you and me; motto, MAGGIORE FRETTA, MINORE OTTO.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
-- Here it is--a piece of common firewood, good only to burn in the stove, the same as any other.
-- "I am a boy and I buy nothing from boys," said the little fellow with far more common sense than the Marionette.
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