If the Englishman is really fond of cold baths, he ought not to grumble at the English climate for being a cold bath. In these days we are constantly told that we should leave our little special possessions and join in the enjoyment of common social institutions and a common social machinery. I offer the rain as a thoroughly Socialistic institution. It disregards that degraded delicacy which has hitherto led each gentleman to take his shower-bath in private. It is a better shower-bath, because it is public and communal; and, best of all, because somebody else pulls the string.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
His communal wives, at his ease, He would curb with occasional blows; Or his State had a queen, like the bees (As another philosopher trows): When he spoke, it was never in prose, But he sang in a strain that would scan, For (to doubt it, perchance, were morose) 'Twas the manner of Primitive Man!英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
Out of 222,492 sentences in the Police Courts, 4,499 were conditional, and there were 45 relapses. These 13,195 conditional sentences included 8,485 for crimes and offences under the penal code; 2,286 for breaches of police regulations; 447 for breaches of communal and provincial regulations; and 1,977 for contraventions of special laws. The crimes and offences for which these sentences have been most frequently pronounced are as follows:--
Correctional. Police. Malicious Wounding ... 3,339 ... 491 Thefts, &c ... 1,803 ...英文原著 · 《Criminal Sociology》
Now something of that I can conceive for my own self, and I will lay my ideas before you, so that you may compare them with your own, asking you always to remember that the very differences in men's capacities and desires, after the common need of food and shelter is satisfied, will make it easier to deal with their desires in a communal state of things.英文原著 · 《Signs of Change》
Moreover, the capitalist or modern slave-owner has been forced by his very success, as we have seen, to organize his slaves, the wage- earners, into a co-operation for production so well arranged that it requires little but his own elimination to make it a foundation for communal life: in the teeth also of the experience of past ages, he has been compelled to allow a modicum of education to the propertyless, and has not even been able to deprive them wholly of political rights; his own advance in wealth and power has bred for him the very enemy who is doomed to make an end of him.英文原著 · 《Signs of Change》
With the old familiar landmarks of life obliterated in this wholesale manner, it is to be doubted whether one of us, placed in the midst of such a civilization, would know himself. He certainly would derive but scanty satisfaction from the recognition if he did. Even Nirvana might seem a happy limbo by comparison. With a communal, not to say a cosmic, birthday, and a conventional wife, he might well deem his separate existence the shadow of a shade and embrace Buddhism from mere force of circumstances.英文原著 · 《The Soul of the Far East》
The only thing worse than goat cheese is eating it at a communal table with some jerk wearing a hat inside.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
You've only been looking at law firms and law firms need communal spaces, but-- Other firms don't. Oh, my God.美剧 · 《Suits》
One of the things we did at our old office was move the partners' offices into the core of the building and made the outside communal associate areas.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》