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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is such a thing as business, and I really do not see what possible reason there can be, or what we have in common to ' 'Oh, there is no reason, of course, and I suppose there is nothing in common between us, or very little; for if I am Prince Muishkin, and your wife happens to be a member of my house, that can hardly be called a 'reason.'
-- Besides, you and I are so differently constituted, I should think, that there must be very little in common be-tween us.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We have no common store from which to take one.
-- But when he came across any common man who was making a noise, he struck him with his staff and rebuked him, saying, 'Sirrah, hold your peace, and listen to better men than yourself.
-- As for the common soldiers, they were so that I could not name every single one of them though I had ten tongues, and though my voice failed not and my heart were of bronze within me, unless you, O Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Jove, were to recount them to me.
-- 'I wish,' he said to him, 'that your limbs were as supple and your strength as sure as your judgment is; but age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.'
-- Now in the twilight when it was not yet dawn, chosen bands of the Achaeans were gathered round the pyre and built one barrow that was raised in common for all, and hard by this they built a high wall to shelter themselves and their ships; they gave it strong gates that there might be a way through them for their chariots, and close outside it they dug a trench deep and wide, and they planted it within with stakes.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it's the common way with horses, as any one can see."
-- Fools, common men, even common mathematicians, do not know anything of what some general expression may mean to the student of molecular physics.
-- A box of very thin common glass would be hard to see in a bad light, because it would absorb hardly any light and refract and reflect very little.
-- And if you put a sheet of common white glass in water, still more if you put it in some denser liquid than water, it would vanish almost altogether, because light passing from water to glass is only slightly refracted or reflected or indeed affected in any way.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have heard, perhaps, of a common surgical operation resorted to in cases where the nose has been destroyed: a flap of skin is cut from the forehead, turned down on the nose, and heals in the new position.
-- It seemed to me rather a pretty little creature; and as Montgomery stated that it never destroyed the turf by bur-rowing, and was very cleanly in its habits, I should imagine it might prove a convenient substitute for the common rab-bit in gentlemen's parks.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To do Buldeo justice, if he had been ten years young-er he would have taken his chance with Akela had he met the wolf in the woods, but a wolf who obeyed the orders of this boy who had private wars with man-eating tigers was not a common animal.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were of hostile tribes, brought together by the influence of the American government; and it is worthy of remark, that a common policy led them both to adopt the same subject.
-- While the common herd stood aloof, in deference to the quarters of Webb, the figure we have described stalked into the center of the domestics, freely expressing his censures or commendations on the merits of the horses, as by chance they displeased or satisfied his judgment.
-- You have all the manifestations of a soft and rich treble; I can, by especial aid, carry a full tenor to the highest letter; but we lack coun-ter and bass!Yon officer of the king, who hesitated to admit me to his company, might fill the latter, if one may judge from the intonations of his voice in common dialogue.'
-- 'Though we are not in danger, common prudence would teach us to journey through this wilderness in as quiet a manner as possible.
-- As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular and solitary with the Indi-ans; though, for the honor of our common nature, neither are incapable of producing them.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ichabod, on the con-trary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments; and he had to encounter a host of fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.
-- He who wins a thousand common hearts is therefore entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.
-- And now the sound of the music from the common room, or hall, summoned to the dance.
-- The common people regarded it with a mixture of respect and superstition, partly out of sympathy for the fate of its ill- starred namesake, and partly from the tales of strange sights, and doleful lamentations, told concerning it.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No mystic ever saw deeper meaning in common things.
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