喜樂美語
  1. 1英國下議院（國會裡民選、權力較大的那一院）

    The Commons is short for the House of Commons, the larger and more powerful of the two parts of the British Parliament. Its members (MPs) are chosen by voters, not born into the job. The other house is the House of Lords. People say the Commons voted… or a debate in the Commons. Always a capital C in this meaning. Though actually, lowercase commons is a different word: land a village shares, or ordinary people as a group. The parliamentary name grew from that older idea — the house that speaks for the common people — but today it is a proper name for one chamber, and it is the one that really runs the country.

組成A shortening of House of Commons. Commons here first meant the common people as a body; the capital letter marks it as the name of that house.

同家族的字

  • commonhistorically the commons = ordinary people; the House is named from that
  • commonera person who is not noble — the kind of person the Commons was meant to speak for

原始詞典資料12 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

Commonsname詞源 1

  • 1

    governmentpoliticsThe House of Commons, part of the parliament under the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.

    • Faced with defeat in the Commons, the Government cancelled and re-advertised the contract, the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company's offer being now accepted for the sea part of the route.

Commonsname詞源 2

  • 1

    A surname.

commonsnoun/ˈkɑmənz/

  • 1

    A public area, especially a dining hall, at a college or university; a similar shared space elsewhere.

  • 2

    A common (common land); especially, a central section of (usually an older) town, designated as a shared area.

    • The Renaissance festival started with the "peasants" meeting in the commons.
    • The commons is the green space surrounded by the village hall, the school, and the church.
  • 3

    The mutual good of all; the abstract concept of resources shared by more than one, for example air, water, information.

    • "The tragedy of the commons" is that none wish to make sacrifices of their or their family's interests for the common good.
  • 4

    The common people collectively, the third estate, the people not belonging to the nobility or clergy.

    • We in the name of other Perſean ſtates [i.e. nobles], And commons of this mightie Monarchy, Preſent thee with the Emperiall Diadem.
  • 5

    historicalThe free burghers/bourgeoisie of a given town, taken collectively.

  • 6

    obsoleteAn outhouse.

  • 7

    obsoleteFood served at a fixed rate from the college buttery, distinguished from battels.

    • At the same time, the fashion at Oxford of confining lunch to a "commons" of bread and butter and a glass of beer till the crew reaches Putney (when a little meat is allowed,) is unreasonable.
  • 8

    Food in general; rations.

    • short commons
    • Without eggs, cocoa-nuts, or plantains, we had very short commons, and the boisterous weather being unpropitious for fishing, we had to live on what few eatable birds we could shoot, with an occasional cuscus, or eastern opossum, the only quadruped, except pigs, inhabiting the island.

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