词：universal

场景：福祸无常 福祸相倚

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

词：universal

英英释义：existing everywhere or involving everyone

“universe”是“宇宙”，其实它的形容词形式“universal”也是个常见并且实用的好词。当想表示某种情况非常普遍时，我们可能会立刻想到 common，popular，prevalent，其实在很多时候也可以用 universal。

    比如我们常说“爱美之心，人皆有之”，就可以说成：

1. The desire to look attractive is universal.  或者

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

当我们想表示“全民xx”这层意思时，就可以用到 universal。比如“全民医保”就可以说成“universal health care”，“普世价值”可以是“universal values”。《经济学人》曾在一篇特别报道中评价美国是“the only large rich country without universal health care”。

universal 的副词形式 universally 也很常见，当想强调普遍程度时就可以用到它。比如《傲慢与偏见》中的经典开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. 

根据这段话我们也可以提取常见句型 It is a universal truth that… 比如《经济学人》中就出现过： 

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