generally是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 一般地； 通常地，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beau-ty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being ad-mired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.
-- Mr. John Knightley was a tall, gentleman-like, and very clever man; rising in his profession, domestic, and respect-able in his private character; but with reserved manners which prevented his being generally pleasing; and capable of being sometimes out of humour.
-- It did not often happen; for Mr. John Knightley had really a great regard for his father-in-law, and generally a strong sense of what was due to him; but it was too often for Emma's charity, especially as there was all the pain of apprehension frequently to be endured, though the offence came not.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may have been observed by persons who go about the shires with eyes for beauty, that in Englishwoman a classically-formed face is seldom found to be united with a figure of the same pattern, the highly-finished features being generally too large for the remainder of the frame; that a graceful and proportionate figure of eight heads usually goes off into random facial curves.
-- The maltster cleared his throat in an exaggerated form for emphasis, and elongating his gaze to the remotest point of the ashpit, said, in the slow speech justifiable when the importance of a subject is so generally felt that any mannerism must be tolerated in getting at it, "Well, I don't mind the year I were born in, but perhaps I can reckon up the places I've lived at, and so get it that way.
-- This circumstance, and the generally sleepy air of the whole prospect here, together with the animated and contrasting state of the reverse fa脙搂ade, suggested to the imagination that on the adaptation of the building for farming purposes the vital principle of the house had turned round inside its body to face the other way.
-- "Well, I'll say this for Pennyways," added Coggan, "that whenever he do really make up his mind to do a noble thing in the shape of a good action, as I could see by his face he did to-night afore sitting down, he's generally able to carry it out.
-- Never had Boldwood been so fastidious, unreasonable about the fit, and generally difficult to please.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness, but there are moments when, if anyone performs an act of kindness towards him or does him the most trifling service, his whole counte-16 Frankensteinnance is lighted up, as it were, with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled.
-- But he is generally melancholy and despairing, and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him.
-- Agatha listened with respect, her eyes sometimes filled with tears, which she endeavoured to wipe away un-perceived; but I generally found that her countenance and tone were more cheerful after having listened to the ex-hortations of her father.
-- 167 'I generally rested during the day and travelled only when I was secured by night from the view of man.
-- I followed, when I could, the courses of the rivers; but the daemon generally avoided these, as it was here that the population of the country chiefly collected.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then it's generally tosome desperate old widower with a large plantation and a dozen children.
-- Everyone knew that her swoons were generally mere ladylike pretenses but they loved herenough to refrain from saying so.
-- Generally when tomorrow came, the thought either did not occurat all or it was so attenuated by the delay it was not very troublesome.
-- Generally Scarlett was annoyed by the child's presence, but he always behaved nicely inRhett's arms.
-- Generally they are telling the truth, God help them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister was uncommonly lively on the present occasion, and indeed was generally more gracious in the society of Mrs. Hubble than in other company.
-- So, leaving word with the shopman on what day I was wanted at Miss Havisham's again, I set off on the four-mile walk to our forge; pondering, as I went along, on all I had seen, and deeply revolving that I was a common laboring-boy; that my hands were coarse; that my boots were thick; that I had fallen into a despicable habit of calling knaves Jacks; that I was much more ignorant than I had considered myself last night, and generally that I was in a low-lived bad way.
-- Also, the spoon is not generally used over-hand, but under.
-- It makes me wretched that you should encourage a man so generally despised as Drummle.
-- I had never seen them on such ill terms; for generally they got on very well indeed together.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The country around appeared like a continued garden, and the enclosed fields, which were generally forty feet square, resembled so many beds of flowers.
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