形容词普通的; 通俗的; [数学]公共的; 共有的

名词普通; [法律]（对土地、水域的）共有权; 公共用地; 平民

1. in common : 共有；

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形容词

1. We must all work for the common good.
我们大家必须为公共的利益而工作。

2. Smith is a very common last name in England.
在英国史密斯是很常见的姓。

3. Snow is common in cold countries.
在寒冷的国家雪是常见的。

4. The common man in every country is anxious for world peace.
每个国家的老百姓都渴望世界和平。

名词

1. Extra shares of common will be sold publicly.
额外的普通股份将公开出售。

接机

A：Mrs. Wang, You are on the third floor.
你的房间在四楼。

B：It looks very comfortable.
这里看上去很舒服。

A：You have got lovely view of Hyde Park. This is your private bathroom, and just opposite is a kitchen which all six of you share. There is common room at the end of the corridor, and a games room next door.
从这里你可以看到海德公园。这是你的个人使用的浴室，紧对面是你们6个人合用的厨房。在走廊尽头有一公共休息室，隔壁是活动房。

查找图书

A：Excuse me. Can you tell me how to find some books on social science?
请问，能告诉我怎样查找社会科学书籍吗？

B：Sure. You see all these little drawers here and all the way around the walls?
当然。你看到靠墙排列的这一个个小抽屉了吗？

A：Yes.
看见了。

B：These drawers contain cards describing every book in our library. Together they constitute the library’s “card catalog”.You can see that each drawer runs from one part of the alphabet to another. For example, this drawer goes from SCA to SCM.
这些抽屉里装着这本图书馆所有图书的卡片，它们构成了图书馆的“卡片目录”。你可以看出每只抽屉都是从字母表中的一部分排到另一部分。比如说这只抽屉，就是从SCA 排到SCM。

A：So if I’m looking for a look called A History of Western Society, I’d just look under “A”.
这么说，如果我要找一本《西方社会史》的话，就在“A”的分类下找。

B：No. You’d look under “W”. The articles “a” and “the” don’t count in our alphabetization, and card are generally omitted for extremely common words and phrases such as “history of”, “introduction to”, “story of” and so forth.
不。应该“W”下找。冠词“a”和“the”不包括在字母排列中。一般来说，目录卡片往往省略一些特别常用的词和词组。如“history of”，“introduction to”，“story of”等等。

A：What if I don’t know the title of the book?
如果不知道书名怎么办？

B：When you can look under the author’s name.
那你可以在作者名下找。

A：Could you give me an example?
能举个例子吗？

B：Suppose you want to find a book by your professor, William Smith. You’d look under SMITH and then WILLIAM. Since that’s a very common name, you may have to go through several “William Smith” until you come to the one who wrote book on the subject you’re interested in.
假如你要找一本你的导师威廉?史密斯教授写的书，你可以在SMITH 栏下寻找，由于William Smith 是一个很常见的姓名，你可能得查阅很多William Smith 才能找到你所感兴趣的书的那位William Smith。

1. 公共：ELF header table该section的标号是一个公共(common)的标号,就象FORTRAN COMMON该标号保存着一个标号的哈希(hash)表. 所有的参与动态连接的object一个section报头(section header table)的sh_flags成员保存着1位标记,

1. 常见的;普遍的
If something is common, it is found in large numbers or it happens often.

e.g. His name was Hansen, a common name in Norway...
他的名字叫汉森，在挪威是一个常见的名字。
e.g. Oil pollution is the commonest cause of death for seabirds...
石油污染是造成海鸟死亡最常见的原因。