the eyelids. With what strife and pains we came into the world we know not; but 'tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it: yet if it could be made out, that such who have easy nativities have commonly hard deaths, and contrarily; his departure was so easy, that we might justly suspect his birth was of another nature, and that some Juno sat cross-legged at his nativity.英文原著 · 《Religio Medici》
It has been said of him in a general way that the fact of an opinion being commonly held was enough to make him profess the opposite. It was enough to make him examine the opinion for himself, when it affected any of the many subjects which interested him, and if, after giving it his best attention, he found it did not hold water, then no weight of authority could make him say that it did. This matter of the geography of the 'Iliad' is only one among many commonly received opinions which he examined for himself and found no reason to dispute; on these he considered it unnecessary to write.英文原著 · 《Samuel Butler-A Sketch》
For it takes a man of genius to write a book, and the thief who turns author commonly inhabits a paradise of the second-rate.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
But a huge apparatus of wealth, power, and printed matter has made it practically impossible for them to bring home these other proposals, even if they would really prefer them. No candidates will stand in the spotted interest; for candidates commonly have to produce money either from their own pockets or the pasty's; and in such circles spots are not worn. No man in the social position of a Cabinet Minister, perhaps, will commit himself to the pale-blue theory of Mr. Asquith; therefore it cannot be a Government measure, therefore it cannot pass.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
Thus the Imperialist, the Colonial idealist (who commonly speaks and always thinks with a Yankee accent) will say, "I've been right away from these little muddy islands, and seen God's great seas and prairies." The sound philosopher will reply, "You have never been in thee islands; you have never seen the weald of Sussex or the plain of Salisbury; otherwise you could never have called them either muddy or little."英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
The gentleman of the brown coat was, it would seem, the individual who commonly closed the daily procession, for the old woman put on her spectacles and took up her work with a sigh, glancing at her daughter with so strange a look that Lavater himself would have found it difficult to interpret. Admiration, gratitude, a sort of hope for better days, were mingled with pride at having such a pretty daughter.英文原著 · 《A Second Home》
The nose is the most commonly broken bone in boys between the ages of 13 and 25.美剧 · 《Shameless》
But the name Francis is more commonly used to refer to Saint Francis of Assisi.美剧 · 《Shameless》
Yes, it's most commonly used by women to recover control of their vaginal muscles after childbirth,美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
You're on what we commonly refer to as the Internet.美剧 · 《Suits》
He was diagnosed with ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. he was diagnosed with ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.演讲 · 《Life's third act ~ Jane Fonda》