場景：福禍無常 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)常見并且實(shí)用的好詞奋单。當(dāng)想表示某種情況非常普遍時(shí)锉试，我們可能會(huì)立刻想到 common，popular辱匿，prevalent键痛，其實(shí)在很多時(shí)候也可以用 universal。
? ? 比如我們常說“愛美之心匾七，人皆有之”絮短，就可以說成：
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昨忆。比如“全民醫(yī)倍∑担”就可以說成“universal health care”，“普世價(jià)值”可以是“universal values”邑贴∠铮《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》曾在一篇特別報(bào)道中評(píng)價(jià)美國是“the only large rich country without universal health care”。
universal 的副詞形式 universally 也很常見拢驾，當(dāng)想強(qiáng)調(diào)普遍程度時(shí)就可以用到它奖磁。比如《傲慢與偏見》中的經(jīng)典開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句型 It is a universal truth that… 比如《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》中就出現(xiàn)過：?
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
?
PREPOSITION
? among
These practices remain universal among the islanders.
? in
a plan that is universal in scope
