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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was then past his prime, being twenty-eight years and three quarters old, of which he had reigned about seven in great felicity, and generally victori-ous.
-- There is not one seaport in the whole kingdom: and those parts of the coasts into which the rivers issue, are so full of pointed rocks, and the sea generally so rough, that there is no venturing with the smallest of their boats; so that these people are wholly excluded from any commerce with the rest of the world.
-- The king's palace is no regular edifice, but a heap of buildings, about seven miles round: the chief rooms are generally two hundred and forty feet high, and broad and long in proportion.
-- His majesty seldom keeps above six hundred horses in 139his stables: they are generally from fifty-four to sixty feet high.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are useful to Mrs. Gradgrind, and (in a generally pervading way) you are serviceable in the family also; so I understand from Miss Louisa, and, indeed, so I have observed myself.
-- She generally wore mittens, and she now laid down her work, and smoothed those mittens.
-- Besides Mr. Bounderby's gold spoon which was generally received in Coketown, another prevalent fiction was very popular there.
-- It was generally considered, indeed, that she had been due some time, and ought to have fallen long ago; but she had kept her life, and her situation, with an ill-conditioned tenacity that occasioned much offence and disappointment.
-- When I begin to be dear to a man, I generally find that his intention is to come over me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To tell the honest truth, when the right word would not come, it was generally replaced by a very powerful adjective.
-- Generally there were one or two English or French gunboats, to watch and protect the fisheries in the offing.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he generally gave in to me.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A disposition began to be perceived in him to exaggerate the number of years he had been there; it was generally understood that you must deduct a few from his account; he was vain, the fleeting generations of debtors said.
-- Pending which, the long-initiated Tip, with an awful enjoyment of the Snuggery's resources, pointed out the common kitchen fire maintained by subscription of collegians, the boiler for hot water supported in like manner, and other premises generally tending to the deduction that the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise, was to come to the Marshalsea.
-- 'But we all three have known, I expect,' said the inventor, 'a pretty many cases of its fixed determination to be miles upon miles, and years upon years, behind the rest of us; and of its being found out persisting in the use of things long superseded, even after the better things were well known and generally taken up?'
-- Without thinking it worth while to explain that in the course of some quarter of a century he had experienced occasional slight fluctuations in his health and spirits, Clennam answered generally that he had never been better, or something equally to the purpose; and shook hands with the possessor of 'that head' as it shed its patriarchal light upon him.
-- When a man says he's rich, you're generally sure he isn't.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While Amy dressed, she issued her orders, and Jo obeyed them, not without entering her protest, however, for she sighed as she rustled into her new organdie, frowned darkly at herself as she tied her bonnet strings in an irreproach-able bow, wrestled viciously with pins as she put on her collar, wrinkled up her features generally as she shook out the handkerchief, whose embroidery was as irritating to her nose as the present mission was to her feelings, and when she had squeezed her hands into tight gloves with three but-tons and a tassel, as the last touch of elegance, she turned to Amy with an imbecile expression of countenance, saying meekly... 'I'm perfectly miserable, but if you consider me present-able, I die happy.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.
-- Now in getting under weigh, the station generally occupied by the pilot is the forward part of the ship.
-- And as for the matter of the alleged uncleanliness of our business, ye shall soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally unknown, and which, upon the whole, will triumphantly plant the sperm whale-ship at least among the cleanliest things of this tidy earth.
-- And brave as he might be, it was that sort of bravery chiefly, visible in some intrepid men, which, while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet cannot withstand those more terrific, because more spiritual terrors, which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged and mighty man.
-- And since in this famous fishery, each mate or headsman, like a Gothic Knight of old, is always accompanied by his boat-steerer or harpooneer, who in certain conjunctures provides him with a fresh lance, when the former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and moreover, as there generally subsists between the two, a close intimacy and friendliness; it is therefore but meet, that in this place we set down who the Pequod's harpooneers were, and to what headsman each of them belonged.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boys have generally excellent appetites.
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