Common

(adj.) having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; 'the common man'; 'a common sailor'; 'the common cold'; 'a common nuisance'; 'followed common procedure'; 'it is common knowledge that she lives alone'; 'the common housefly'; 'a common brand of soap' .

(adj.) belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public; 'for the common good'; 'common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community' .

(adj.) commonly encountered; 'a common (or familiar) complaint'; 'the usual greeting' .

(adj.) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; 'common parlance'; 'a vernacular term'; 'vernacular speakers'; 'the vulgar tongue of the masses'; 'the technical and vulgar names for an animal species' .

(adj.) of or associated with the great masses of people; 'the common people in those days suffered greatly'; 'behavior that branded him as common'; 'his square plebeian nose'; 'a vulgar and objectionable person'; 'the unwashed masses' .

(adj.) to be expected; standard; 'common decency' .

(adj.) common to or shared by two or more parties; 'a common friend'; 'the mutual interests of management and labor' .

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• The paper was first dipped into a solution of common salt, and then wiped dry, to diffuse the salt uniformly through the substance of the paper. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Few people of common prudence will do THAT; and whatever she saves, she will be able to dispose of. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• There are also characters peculiar to different nations and particular persons, as well as common to mankind. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The common man in France was more free, better off, and happier during the Terror than he had been in 1787. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It will then be publicly seen that, on both sides, we meet only as common and indifferent acquaintance. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• To grow rich is to get money; and wealth and money, in short, are, in common language, considered as in every respect synonymous. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The first wave is past, and the argument is compelled to admit that men and women have common duties and pursuits. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I was not averse to doing this, as it served to make me and my boat a commoner incident among the water-side people there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• If strange and rare deviations of structure are truly inherited, less strange and commoner deviations may be freely admitted to be inheritable. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I think it is a pity Mr. Casaubon's mother had not a commoner mind: she might have taught him better. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But there must be many in our rank who manage with much less: they must do with commoner things, I suppose, and look after the scraps. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The commoner kind--the ordinary coal gas--consists of two measures of hydrogen mixed with one measure of carbon vapour. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Edwards, that with the English race-horse the spinal stripe is much commoner in the foal than in the full-grown animal. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Their peculiar physiognomy, the long nose and thick lips, was very like that of the commoner type of Polish Jew to-day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I saw real glass windows in the houses of even the commonest people. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• There is sometimes an odd disposition in this country to dispute as improbable in fiction, what are the commonest experiences in fact. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The mammoth and the horse are among the commonest themes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Many things are true which only the commonest minds observe. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Girl number twenty possessed of no facts, in reference to one of the commonest of animals! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• We have, also, seen that the species, which are the commonest and most widely-diffused, vary more than do the rare and restricted species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• We owe Mrs. Jennings much more than civility; and civility of the commonest kind must prevent such a hasty removal as that. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• He consults his watch, and says (like Guy Fawkes), he'll now go down to the House of Commons and see how things look. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Doctors' Commons was approached by a little low archway. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He entered the House of Commons and took the Speaker's chair. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• What do you think I heard at Doctors' Commons this morning? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• They would provide themselves with a copy of the Will from Doctors' Commons, I said. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But it is understood that his attention is now rather used up, and difficult to hold, that being the tone of the House of Commons. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Admiralty said Mr Merdle was a wonderful man, Treasury said he was a new power in the country, and would be able to buy up the whole House of Commons. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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