1. Guess-translating, he said one meant beobab tree, which is very common in West Africa, and another might be Mandinka for cow.
    猜着翻译，他说一个词的意思是beobab树，这种树在西非很常见，另外一个可能是母牛的曼丁哥语。

2. Common interests formed a bond between us.
    共同的利益把我们联系在一起。

3. Common sense is worth more than learning.
    普通的见识比学问更重要。

4. Common people still have to fly, take a boat, or swim.
    而普通人要穿越还是得坐飞机、乘船或游泳横渡。

5. O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe!
    啊，同胞们！我们必须与那共同的敌人决战！

6. One fairly common reason is that parents spoil their children out of a sense of guilt.
    一个颇为常见的原因就是父母亲们是出于内疚感而溺爱孩子的。

7. Once on the edge of the educational system, such schools, or jukus, are now so common in Japan that, especially for those people at the top level of society, they have begun to function as a kind of shadow educational system, replacing regular school
    这些专门对付考试的课外学校（日语中称为juku），曾是教育体制的次要成分，如今却在日本非常普及，尤其对上层社会的人群而言，它们已经开始成了一种影子教育体制，在家长和学生、乃至两三岁的孩童心目中，它们的重要性已经取代了正规学校。

8. In the 1970s, computers were common enough, but only in big business, government departments, and large organizations.
    在70年代，计算机已经相当普及了，但只用在大公司，政府部门和大的组织之中，

9. I think the tendency to give children too many toys and clothes is quite common in American families.
    我发现给孩子们买太多的玩具和衣服的倾向在美国家庭已是司空见惯。

10. In many cultures the most common form of first contact between two people is a handshake.
    在许多文化环境里，两个人初次接触的最常见的方式就是握手。