| 词组 | commonality |
| 释义 | commonality Howard 1978 seems to be the only commentator to take exception to the modern and predominantly American use of commonality; he belabors it with a handy quotation from the Harvard Business Review. The use or uses to which he objects seem to have become established since World War II; the origin may have been technical or military. Here are a few typical examples; you can judge for yourself whether you need to use the word, which is clearly established in standard use. • ... sweating and sleeping fitfully in the overheated coach, they seemed, to Badger, to share a great commonality of intimacy and weariness —John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle, 1957 • On many tractors and vehicles there is considerable commonality of parts between different makes — Farmer's Weekly (South Africa), 23 May 1962 • Mankind's left brain, the speech region, must also have evolved; here lies the structural basis for the deep commonality of all human grammars —Philip Morrison, Scientific American, August 1973 • ... his sensitive feeling for black people and for the South, the commonality of his and their hard, church-centered, rural life —William V. Shannon, TV. Y. Times Book Rev., 6 June 1976 • ... three distinct agents whose only basic commonality of action is to effect an increase in cellular Na+ —Clarence D. Cone, Jr. & Charlotte M. Cone, Science, 9 Apr. 1976 • The commonality of the American people is politics —John Leonard, N.Y. Times, 17 May 1977 • There are, therefore, big differences between runners, just as there are differences between all people. Yet there are commonalities —Runners World, December 1980 |
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