"Out of the common" nghĩa là gì?
Nước cờ xuất sắc. Photo courtesy Andreas Kontokanis.
'Out of the common' nghĩa là bất thường, hiếm thấy, xuất sắc, phi thường (uncommon; extraordinary).
Ví dụ
But I couldn't let her go with the knowledge that something out of the common was happening.
Paradoxically the strange crime is often easier to solve than the common one. I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. ... It is only the colourless, uneventful case which is hopeless.
Henry Miller seems to me a man out of the common because he saw and proclaimed this fact a long while before most of his contemporaries -- at a time, indeed, when many of them were actually burbling about a renaissance of literature.
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