形 state-owned，collective，common，general；动 （使公开） make public，publicize；名 public affairs，official business，authority，collective ；

[例句] 他的目的地是乔伯姆公地，那里和他在科茨沃尔德的家离得很远。 His destination was Chobham Common, a long way from his Cotswold home.

[例句] 在布里斯托尔附近的5号高速公路上，南行的车辆排成了绵延20英里的长龙。 Southbound traffic tailed back for twenty miles on the M5 near Bristol.

open，overt，make public，make known to the public，in the nude ；

[例句] 他们发行一定数量的可公开交易的股票。 They issue a fixed number of shares that trade publicly.

[例句] 现在我们能公开谈论以前讳言不提的艾滋病问题。 We can now talk openly about AIDS which we couldn't before.

fair，just，impartial，equitable，dispassion ；

[例句] 该队还因其良好的体育精神及公平竞争精神而受到了表扬。 The team also won praise for sportsmanship and fair play.

[例句] 他们现在想要公平竞争。 They are now trying to compete on an equal footing.

company，corporation，firm；

[例句] 若IBM公司和苹果公司联手将会有什么效果呢？ What will be the effect of the alliance between IBM and Apple?

[例句] 医生们抱怨他们疲于应付医药公司的销售人员。 Doctors are complaining about being barraged by drug-company salesmen.

highway，driveway，trafficway，road，calzada ；

[例句] 公路系统沿线有大型商场和快餐店。 Megamalls and fast food restaurants line the highway system.

[例句] 那些地区通过完善的公路系统相互连接。 The regions are interconnected by an excellent highway system.

public，common，communal，commonality ；

[例句] 我不开车，公共汽车条件又太糟糕。 I don't drive and the buses are quite hopeless.

[例句] 我从不坐公共汽车去城里。 I never go on the bus into the town.

citizen，civil，burgher，civics，freeman ；

[例句] 这次抽奖只限英国公民参加。 Entry to this prize draw is limited to UK residents.

[例句] 公民抗命，不管是暴力还是非暴力的，都是故意犯法。 Civil disobedience, violent or non-violent, is intentional law breaking.

official document，archives，bumf，bumph，document ；

[例句] 他笔下的公文矫揉浮华，长篇大论。 The prose of his official communications was so laboured, pompous and verbose.

[例句] 桌子上摆满了公文。 The desk was covered with papers.

for public [common] use，public，communal ；

[例句] 道路标志图是同公用通道法规一致的。 Pictures of road signs are matched with their Highway Code meanings.

[例句] 他在公用电话亭给我打了电话。 He phoned me from a kiosk.

the metric system ；

[例句] 我们正逐渐过渡到完全使用公制。 We are gradually changing over to a completely metric system.

[例句] 在公制中, 用米和升作计量单位. In the metric system, measurements are made in metres and liters.

formula，expression，expressions，formulae，formulary ；

[例句] 用公式计算容器的容积。 Use the formula to calculate the volume of the container.

[例句] 这个公式用于计算圆的面积。 This formula is used to calculate the area of a circle.

generally acknowledged truth，self-evident truth，[数]axiom，postulate ；

[例句] 强权即公理 -- 这是帝国主义的逻辑. Might is right -- that is the logic of imperialism.

[例句] 欧几里德用的公理都应看作是不证自明的真理. The axioms adopted by Euelid mere supposed to be self - evident truths.

promulgate，announce，publish，make public [known]，come out with ；

[例句] 他们公布上一年度纯收入为110万美元。 For the prior year, they reported net income of $1.1 million.

[例句] 马可Ⅱ计划在公布1周内便在$TG掀起了骚动. During the week after its release, the Mark II plan had STG buzzing.

government bonds，state loan，government loan，public loan，government bond ；

[例句] 她把大部分存款投资在公债和股票上. She invested most of her savings in stocks and shares.

[例句] 他买了许多公债. He bought a lot of government stock.

international waters，high seas，blue water，mare liberum，the high seas；

[例句] 公海上的传奇历险故事 a swashbuckling tale of adventure on the high seas

[例句] 船驶向公海. The ship steered for the open seas.

universally [generally] acknowledged，(universally, generally) accepted，established，legalize，recognition ；

[例句] 这个队伍的丰富经验和表现出来的实力是众所公认的。 Few would argue that this team has experience and proven ability.

[例句] 他是公认的匈牙利最有手腕的政治家。 He is widely regarded as Hungary's most skilful politician.

flat，apartment，lodging house，[电影]APT；

[例句] 杰罗姆试图说服她在巴黎买一套公寓。 Gerome tried to talk her into taking an apartment in Paris.

[例句] 他们已经在他的公寓门上上了把挂锁。 They had put a padlock on the door of his flat.

convention，treaty，joint pledge，collectively agreed-upon regulations within a work-unit，common divisor ；

[例句] 该行为公然违背了《维也纳公约》。 The action is an open violation of the Vienna Convention.

[例句] 他强烈要求保留北大西洋公约组织以维护和平。 He argues strongly for retention of NATO as a guarantee of peace.

park，public garden ；

[例句] 他们每天都和保姆一起在公园里散步，表现得很有教养。 They go for decorous walks every day in parks with their nanny.

[例句] 直升飞机的探照灯来回扫射这个被封锁的公园。 Helicopters with searchlights swept the park which was sealed off.

public functionary，public servant，civil servant；

[例句] 他们从上层文职部门清除了上千名公务员。 They have purged thousands from the upper levels of the civil service.

[例句] 和其他所有公务员一样，警察必须服务于公众的需求。 Like any other public servants, police must respond to public demand.