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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had never heard her more malicious about our common friends.
-- It was obvious that he had no social gifts, but these a man can do without; he had no eccentricity even, to take him out of the common run; he was just a good, dull, honest, plain man.
-- Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does.
-- It was an ideal that he painted a poor one, common and shop-soiled, but still it was an ideal; and it gave his character a peculiar charm.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was one of those engineers who began by handling the hammer and pickaxe, like generals who first act as common soldiers.
-- Soon their common aim had but one object, that of escaping, rejoining Grant's army, and fighting together in the ranks of the Federals.
-- They belong to that species of molluscous perforators which excavate holes in the hardest stone; their shell is rounded at both ends, a feature which is not remarked in the common mussel.
-- Herbert, a gallant boy, already remarkably well informed in the natural sciences, would render greater service to the common cause.
-- It then became necessary to leave the smoking mass to cool, and during this time Neb and Pencroft, guided by Cyrus Harding, brought, on a hurdle made of interlaced branches, loads of carbonate of lime and common stones, which were very abundant, to the north of the lake.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a young man of one-and-twenty or thereabouts; well made, and certainly handsome, though the expression of his face was far from prepossessing, having in common with his manner and even his dress, a dissipated, insolent air which repelled one.
-- It was natural for four reasons: firstly, because Mrs Quilp being a young woman and notoriously under the dominion of her husband ought to be excited to rebel; secondly, because Mrs Quilp's parent was known to be laudably shrewish in her disposition and inclined to resist male authority; thirdly, because each visitor wished to show for herself how superior she was in this respect to the generality of her sex; and fourthly, because the company being accustomed to scandalise each other in pairs, were deprived of their usual subject of conversation now that they were all assembled in close friendship, and had consequently no better employment than to attack the common enemy.
-- CHAPTER 13Daniel Quilp of Tower Hill, and Sampson Brass of Bevis Marks in the city of London, Gentleman, one of her Majesty's attornies of the Courts of the King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster and a solicitor of the High Court of Chancery, slumbered on, unconscious and unsuspicious of any mischance, until a knocking on the street door, often repeated and gradually mounting up from a modest single rap to a perfect battery of knocks, fired in long discharges with a very short interval between, caused the said Daniel Quilp to struggle into a horizontal position, and to stare at the ceiling with a drowsy indifference, betokening that he heard the noise and rather wondered at the same, and couldn't be at the trouble of bestowing any further thought upon the subject.
-- When they came to any town or village, or even to a detached house of good appearance, Short blew a blast upon the brazen trumpet and carolled a fragment of a song in that hilarious tone common to Punches and their consorts.
-- 'Once make a giant common and giants will never draw again.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The history of the prisoner Maslova was a very common one.
-- And before his imagination arose that common phenomenon of the appearance of a long absent, beloved face, which, after the first shock produced by the external changes which have taken place during the long absence, gradually becomes the same as it was many years ago--all the past changes disappear, and before the spiritual eyes stands forth the main expression of the peculiar spiritual individuality.
-- It happens to everybody, and if one is guided by common sense the matter is usually arranged and forgotten, and one lives on like the rest of the world," said Agrippina Petrovna, sternly and seriously.
-- You could then see her in the common reception-room, or, if the inspector permits it, in the office."
-- "There is a person in jail in whom I am very much interested;" at the word "jail" Maslenikoff's face became even more stern, "and I would like to have the right of interview in the office instead of the common reception room, and oftener than on the appointed days.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wait for the common sense of the morning."
-- What if cruelty had grown into a common passion?
-- I might seem some old-world savage animal, only the more dreadful and disgusting for our common likeness a foul creature to be incontinently slain.
-- In the first place, there was the bleached look common in most animals that live largely in the dark the white fish of the Kentucky caves, for instance.
-- Then, those large eyes, with that capacity for reflecting light, are common features of nocturnal things witness the owl and the cat.
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