I have thought about you.It's just that any time I've tried to keep anything normal with a person that was normal,it's just been a disaster.

——Notting Hill

我曾经想过你，只是每一次我试着维持正常地和一个人正常交往，结果都很惨。

——《诺丁山》

一、你知道normal有几种含义吗？

adj.

1.正常的，标准的，正规的 typical, usual or ordinary

Everything is absolutely normal.

一切完全正常。

 

2.（人的精神，身体）正常发育的 occurring naturally

People who commit crimes like that aren't normal.

犯这种罪的人心理都不正常。

 

3.【数】垂直的，直角的 perpendicular; especially : perpendicular to a tangent at a point of tangency

Grain orientation within the intertidal beach unit is characteristically more-or-less normal to the coastline.

在潮间海滩单位内，颗粒排列方向的特点是大体上垂直于海岸线。

 

4.【化】规度的，当量的，中和性的 having a concentration of one gram equivalent of solute per liter

This term was employed in the preparation of normal solutions.

这个术语曾用于当量溶液的配制过程中。

 

n.

1.标准，常态 a form or state regarded as the norm

It was several days before the floodwater sank and life returned to normal.

过了几天洪水才退，生活恢复了正常。

 

2.【数】法线 [C] the portion of a normal line to a plane curve between the curve and the x-axis

3.正常人，正常事物 one that is normal

 

二、含有normal的常见短语

normal school

n. 正态分布；师范学校

 

normal curve

常态曲线，高斯曲线，标准曲线，正态曲线

 

normal distribution

正常分布，常态分布，正态分布

 

normal fault

正断层

 

normal dwarf

【医】 正常侏儒

 

三、接下来，做个填词游戏

Her temperature soon returned to ______.

她的体温很快恢复正常。