| 单词 | common |
| 释义 | com·mon I. 1. a. < we, the people of the U.S., in order to … provide for the common defense — U.S. Constitution > < a sense of common interest, a guild feeling in reaction against the extreme competitive individualism — J.M.Barzun > b. < a common thief > < punished as a common scold > < maintaining a common nuisance > c. < our common humanity > < our common nature > 2. a. < a common attribute > < a common characteristic > : calling forth, giving rise to as source, or sending out a number of different items : marked by the same relationship to a number of persons or things < our common rights > < the sharp teeth common to all cats > < streets radiating out from a common center > < we will help our allies against our common enemy > b. < in the partnership of our common enterprise we must share in a unified plan — F.D.Roosevelt > < our common defense > < by common consent the partnership was dissolved > c. < “folk-land”, the common property of the tribe — J.R.Green > < the front hall, common to all the tenants — Dorothy Sayers > d. < a common woman > < the common cup > e. f. mathematics g. anatomy < the common carotid artery > < common iliac vessels > 3. < eating nothing common on the holy day > 4. a. < the common is that which is found in the experience of a number of persons — John Dewey > < the common judgment which sets tragedy above comedy as the greater art — Samuel Alexander > b. archaic < young Arthur's death is common in their mouths — Shakespeare > c. chiefly Midland < I'm as well as common — Ellen Glasgow > d. < cat is the common name for Felis catus > 5. a. < a sentiment common, but not universal — W.G.Sumner > < this revelation has … passed into the common consciousness of the civilized world — W.R.Inge > b. < the common people > < was then forced to take on a job as a common laborer > 6. a. < the everyday man and woman, the common people — I.M.Price > < a common man, no holier than you and I — Thomas Hardy > < the great gods … were not exempt from the common lot. They too grew old and died — J.G.Frazer > b. < apart … from the common reader, there is an elite — A.L.Guérard > c. < the common honesty to face it — W.R.Inge > < it was simply common courtesy to help him > d. < O hard is the bed … and common the blanket and cheap — A.E.Housman > < labor was scarce and common at that — American Guide Series: Delaware > e. < a very common girl snubbed by the others > < as Harris said, in his common vulgar way, the city would have to lump it — J.K.Jerome > f. of lumber 7. now chiefly dialect < he's such a nice common fellow > 8. < common salt > < the common fern > specifically 9. a. of gender (1) < the gender of F enfant is common > (2) < Danish has two genders, common and neuter > b. of a substantive c. of a syllable < in Greek prosody a syllable is common that has a short vowel followed by a stop and a liquid or nasal, as the first syllable of teknon > d. of a grammatical case < moon, as subject in “the moon is shining” and as object in “I see the moon”, is in the common case > Synonyms: < Norris quite definitely identified the romantic with that which is peculiar or special as opposed to the common — M.R.Cohen > and may connote coarseness or lack of refinement < weavers produced fine muslins, gauzes, calicoes, and the common cloths used by the poorer population — C.L.Jones > ordinary applies to what is met with in the routine, regular, or accustomed order of events; it may connote lack of rareness or of superiority < the business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones — T.S.Eliot > < it is not an ordinary war. It is a revolution … which threatens all men everywhere — F.D.Roosevelt > < the mass of ordinary men, as definitely opposed to exceptional men — W.H.Mallock > familiar applies to what is well known because encountered often and lacks any suggestion of the foreign or exotic < the familiar arrangement of chairs and tables, always the same — Pearl Buck > < the curious impression … that she had seen everything and everybody before. Every face was familiar to her — Ellen Glasgow > popular indicates the common due to acceptance, sometimes enthusiastic, by the people, especially commoners; it may imply a lack of qualities pleasing to the elite, upper classes, or learned groups < the popular faith in the omnipotence of education — M.R.Cohen > < these brotherhoods were … thoroughly popular, drawing most of their support from the lower classes — W.R.Inge > < compromise its values by publishing work that could be described as merely cheap or popular — H.V.Gregory > vulgar is used only occasionally to mean common; it usually suggests meanness, bad taste, crudeness, or crassness < the now vulgar opinion that [Samuel] Johnson was more distinguished as a talker than as a writer — J.W.Krutch > < he never could have been vulgar; there is not in the whole range of English literature quite such a gentleman — George Saintsbury > < not for the vulgar gaze but for an aristocratic and urbane inspection > Synonym: see in addition reciprocal, universal. II. 1. a. obsolete b. commons plural but singular or plural in construction < the commons were pleased > 2. commons plural a. singular or plural in construction < a modern university commons > b. singular in construction c. singular in construction < were eating an ample commons > < shortening the commons when our supply train was intercepted > < subsisting on short commons > 3. commons plural but singular or plural in construction a. b. sometimes capitalized c. often capitalized 4. 5. a. sometimes commons plural b. c. sometimes commons plural, chiefly New England 6. sometimes capitalized a. b. c. 7. 8. • - in common - out of common III. 1. obsolete 2. obsolete 3. obsolete |
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