核心畫面

Picture one thing that belongs to many people at once — held jointly, not by any single owner. From that seed of 'shared by all' two branches grow. One looks at WHO shares it: a common goal, common ground, the common good, the patch of open land a village all uses. The other turns it into a count: if a thing is spread across so many people and places, then you MEET it often and it feels ORDINARY — common (frequent), common or garden (plain), and at the edge, 'common' as low-class.

可以想成一樣東西同時屬於很多人——大家共同持有,不歸某一個人所有。從這個「眾人共享」的種子長出兩條枝。一條看的是「誰更多收起可以想成一樣東西同時屬於很多人——大家共同持有,不歸某一個人所有。從這個「眾人共享」的種子長出兩條枝。一條看的是「誰在共享」:共同的目標、共同點、公眾的利益、整個村子都能用的那片公地。另一條把它變成數量:一樣東西既然散布在這麼多人、這麼多地方,你就會「常常」碰到它、它就顯得「普通」——於是有了 common(常見的)、common or garden(再平常不過)、以及帶刻薄味的「common=出身低下」。

原始詞典資料24 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Commonname詞源 1

  • 1

    A surname.

Commonname詞源 2

  • 1

    fantasyliteraturemediaDenoting the name of a universal language in various works.

    • Both princesses spoke Common well enough. Soon we realized that they knew each other.

commonadj/ˈkɒmən/

  • 1

    Mutual; shared by more than one.

    • The two competitors have the common aim of winning the championship.
    • Winning the championship is an aim common to the two competitors.
  • 2

    Existing among virtually all people; universal.

    • common knowledge, common decency, common sense
    • No man of common humanity, no man who had any value for his character, could be capable of it.
  • 3

    Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.

    • It is common to find sharks off this coast.
    • Thus it is sayde in the cōmon vsage.
  • 4

    Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.

    • "Commoner" used to be commoner, but "more common" is now more common.
    • Sharks are common in these waters.
  • 5

    Simple, ordinary or vulgar.

    • the common folk
    • This fact was infamous / And ill beseeming any common man, / Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.
  • 6

    biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyAs part of the vernacular name of a species, usually denoting that it is abundant or widely known.

    • the common daisy (Bellis perennis)
  • 7

    biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyVernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal.

    • common name vs. scientific name.
  • 8

    lawArising from use or tradition, as opposed to being created by a legislative body.

    • common law
    • As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […]
另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsOf, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.

  • 10

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsOf or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.

  • 11

    obsoleteProfane; polluted.

    • What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
  • 12

    obsoleteGiven to lewd habits; prostitute.

    • a Dame who her self was as Common as the King's High Way

commonnoun/ˈkɒmən/

  • 1

    Mutual good, shared by more than one.

  • 2

    A tract of land in common ownership; common land.

    • The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
    • Throughout the land there is a great variation in the shape and size of village greens, from the many of pocket-handkerchief size to a roadside common of 20 acres or more - as at Lindfield in West Sussex.
  • 3

    The people; the community.

    • the weal o' the common
  • 4

    lawThe right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.

commonverb/ˈkɒmən/

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    obsoleteTo communicate (something).

    • Then entred Satan into Judas, whose syr name was iscariot (which was of the nombre off the twelve) and he went his waye, and commened with the hye prestes and officers, how he wolde betraye hym vnto them.
  • 2

    obsoleteTo converse, talk.

    • So long as Guyon with her commoned, / Vnto the ground she cast her modest eye […]
    • 1568-1569, Richard Grafton, Chronicle Capitaine generall of Flaunders, which amiably enterteyned the sayd Duke, and after they had secretly commoned of.
  • 3

    obsoleteTo have sex.

  • 4

    obsoleteTo participate.

  • 5

    obsoleteTo have a joint right with others in common ground.

  • 6

    obsoleteTo board together; to eat at a table in common.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。