1. Murrow's projection of eventual victory for the ordinary people proved to be accurate.
    事实证明，默罗关于普通人民会取得最后胜利的预言无比正确。

2. “Instead, you have spent an exceedingly dull evening at the opera with a fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room.
    "然而，你却在歌剧院里陪着个胖子打发了一个极度无聊的夜晚。根本没有什么黑眸美女偷偷将情报塞到他手里，他只是接了一个普通的电话，约在他住的地方见面。

3. Realizing that this was no ordinary fish, the fisherman made every effort not to damage it in any way.
    那位渔民意识到这根本不是一条普通的鱼，于是千方百计不让它受到丝毫伤害。

4. In former times it was thought that ordinary metal could be transmuted into gold.
    古时认为一般金属能变成黄金.

5. In ordinary living, there can be some tolerance of unpunctuality.
    在日常生活中人们可以容忍一定程度的不准时。

6. Is he not an ordinary seaman from Italy?
    不就是个普普通通的意大利水手吗？

7. In an ordinary supermarket, it is preferable to keep the items of one kind all together.
    在普通超级市场里，同类商品最好搁在一起。

8. It was an ordinary window; outside was utter blackness.
    窗户很普通；窗外一片漆黑。

9. It is usually the ordinary street officer who is on the wrong end of this, rather than the armed experts who arrive rather later.
    通常，正是在街上巡逻的普通警察因此遭殃，而不是姗姗来迟的武装特警。