場(chǎng)景：福禍無(wú)常 福禍相倚

例句：As one of the universal rules, disasters and happiness do not follow rules. They stick together through thick and thin.

詞：universal

英英釋義：existing everywhere or involving everyone

“universe”是“宇宙”，其實(shí)它的形容詞形式“universal”也是個(gè)常見(jiàn)并且實(shí)用的好詞。當(dāng)想表示某種情況非常普遍時(shí)，我們可能會(huì)立刻想到 common，popular，prevalent，其實(shí)在很多時(shí)候也可以用 universal。

? ? 比如我們常說(shuō)“愛(ài)美之心，人皆有之”，就可以說(shuō)成：

1. The desire to look attractive is universal.? 或者

2. It’s a universal trait to want people to find you attractive.?

當(dāng)我們想表示“全民xx”這層意思時(shí)，就可以用到 universal。比如“全民醫(yī)?！本涂梢哉f(shuō)成“universal health care”，“普世價(jià)值”可以是“universal values”。《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》曾在一篇特別報(bào)道中評(píng)價(jià)美國(guó)是“the only large rich country without universal health care”。

universal 的副詞形式 universally 也很常見(jiàn)，當(dāng)想強(qiáng)調(diào)普遍程度時(shí)就可以用到它。比如《傲慢與偏見(jiàn)》中的經(jīng)典開(kāi)篇第一段中就用到了“universally acknowledged”：

3. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.?

根據(jù)這段話我們也可以提取常見(jiàn)句型 It is a universal truth that… 比如《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》中就出現(xiàn)過(guò)：?

4. It is a universal truth of human nature that a dollar tomorrow is worth less to us than a dollar today.

Collocation：

universal adjective

VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION

VERBS

? be, seem

? become

? remain

?ADVERB

? truly

? by no means, far from

Some of the teachers are technical specialists, but this is far from universal.

? almost, near, nearly, virtually

? apparently

? supposedly

supposedly universal standards

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PREPOSITION

? among

These practices remain universal among the islanders.

? in

a plan that is universal in scope