From the word’s history
From Middle English usual, from Old French usuel, from Latin ūsuālis, from ūsus 'use, habit'.
經古法文 usuel 來自拉丁文 ūsuālis，源自 ūsus「使用、習慣」。
You can picture 'usual' as the path something almost always takes — the version of events your mind expects before anything even happens. When the world follows that worn path, it is 'usual'; everything else branches off from that one feeling of 'this is how it normally goes'.
可以想成「事情幾乎每次都走的那條老路」——還沒發生，你心裡就先預設它會這樣。世界照著這條走熟的路走，就是 usual；底下其他用法，全都從「這就是它平常的樣子」這個感覺長出來。
原始詞典資料3 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。
usualadj/ˈjuː.ʒʊəl/
- 1
Most commonly occurring; typical.
- The preference of a boy to a girl is a usual occurrence in some parts of China.
- It is becoming more usual these days to rear children as bilingual.
usualnoun/ˈjuː.ʒʊəl/
- 1
The typical state of something, or something that is typical.
- 2
A specific good or service (e.g. a drink) that someone typically orders.
- I'll just have the usual.
- Two usuals, please.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。