Ecologist Garrett Hardin described this idea in nineteen sixty-eight as "the tragedy of the commons."

VOA: special.2009.10.16

We have not yet found them all, Lords and Commons, nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming.

我们还有找到这些碎片，上帝和普通人，我们也不会去找，知道她的主人第二次来。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates and can use the product of, so much is his property " He by his labor encloses it from the commons."

一个人能耕耘，播种，改良，栽培多少土地,和能用多少土地的产品，这多少土地就是他的财产,这就像是他用他的劳动从公地圈来的那样“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Addressing fellow politicians in the House of Commons Wednesday, a somber Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid tribute to the fallen.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Speaking before the House of Commons, Mr.Brown said since military operations in Iraq have ended, the time had come for a thorough inquiry into the war.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

Mr.Brown reiterated in the commons that Mr.Karzai must now root out corruption.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown began his regular question time in the House of Commons as he has always done, reading out the names of British soldiers recently killed in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

British Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth said in the House of Commons that government is doing all it can to adequately protect troops in Afghanistan and he promised more assets would be moved into the theater of operation, but he underlined the mission will remain dangerous.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13