Kingsley was fascinated by how the story explores mental health care from half-a-century ago when techniques now viewed as barbaric were commonplace.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

Milton, like so many of his contemporaries, kept a commonplace book and, as you can imagine, he kept it for the most part in Latin.

和许多同代的人一样，弥尔顿，写一本普通的书，正如你所想象的，他所写那本书大部分是拉丁文。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I think there's a connection here between the image from the commonplace book and the treatment in Milton's mask of this strangely conjoint phenomenon of virginity and speechlessness.

我认为,笔记书中的形象,和弥尔顿《面具》中有关童贞和无语这一共同现象,是有联系的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Jia says today all these items are commonplace.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

He was so much bigger than everybody else, so people really were not taken aback, because this was a time when physical imperfections were commonplace.

他虽然比普通人个子大很多,但人们并不会感到惊异,因为在那个时代有生理缺陷极为寻常

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

And women are three times as likely as men to work in informal economies, and therefore abuse,sex trafficking and the absence of legal rights and protections for women are still unacceptably commonplace in so many places around the world."

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

I'm talking about the view that's commonplace.

我正在谈论的是通俗的思想观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Now one of the entries in Milton's commonplace book that touches on the subject of chastity strikes me as a particularly charged one for its terrifying image of violence.

在弥尔顿那本书中有一个条目,涉及到贞洁的话题,深深震撼了我,它感情十分强烈，还有暴力成分。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The text into which any early modern seventeenth-century writer would jot his or her thoughts into, his reading notes, was always called a commonplace book.

他的阅读笔记,那是许多早期的十七世纪现代作家都会深深思考的笔记，它常常被称为一本普通的书。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Actually we have Milton's commonplace book, his reading notes, and you can find it all in English translation in volume one of The Complete Prose Works of John Milton.

事实上我们有弥尔顿的那本普通的书，他的阅读笔记，你们可以找到完全的英译本,在弥尔顿全部散文作品的第一卷。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The touching of the Lady's lip touches us in other ways as well though, at least in this lecture, because we remember that unfortunate, that horrifying image of the lip that Milton had noted in the commonplace book.

碰触女士的嘴唇也在其他方面感动了我们，至少在这一讲中，因为我们记得那不幸的，充满畏惧的嘴唇的形象,那是弥尔顿在笔记中提到的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选