By the early 1900s, get first dibs was in common use in American English.

到了20世纪初，get first dibs在美国英语中被普遍使用。

However, in many areas they're not easily available or in common use, which makes the task much harder.

然而，在很多地区，避孕套并不容易获得或普遍使用，这使得控制病毒传播的任务更加困难。

It was censure in common use, and easily given.

这是常见的谴责，而且很容易做出。

Now, the Oxford English Dictionary lists many phrasal verbs in common use in British English.

现在，牛津英语词典列出了许多英式英语中常用的短语动词。

So, in this headline, and in common use, we use it non-literally to talk about situations that are starting to change.

所以，在这个标题中，以及在通常的使用中，我们用它来谈论开始变化的情况，而不是用的字面意思。

From those humble beginnings, we have seen the development of the user-friendly home computers and multimedia machines which are in common use today.

从那些简陋的初级阶段，我们看到了现在都已普及的、使用简便的家用电脑和多媒体的微机的发展。

It will also make prose seem more unnatural, since the entire point is to replace words in common use with phrases that are not.

它还会使散文看起来更不自然，因为重点是用不常用的词组替换常用词。

The term didn't spread to the rest of the country until much later, however, and as recently as 1985 it wasn't in common use nationwide.

但没有成功。 然而，这个词直到很久以后才传播到美国其他地区， 直到 1985 年它才在全国范围内普遍使用。

For example, no undefined technical jargon, no hidden jokes, and no slang, even when such terms or phrases are in common use in the spoken language.

例如，没有未定义的技术术语，没有隐藏的笑话，没有俚语，即使这些术语或短语在口语中很常见。

The term hate crime only came into common use in the 1980s, but those kinds of crimes, of course, existed long before we used this official label for them.

仇恨犯罪这个词直到20世纪80年代才开始普遍使用，当然，这类犯罪早在我们给它们贴上官方标签之前就已经存在了。

Even today, phrases combining Anglo-Saxon and Norman French doublets are still in common use (e.g. law and order, lord and master, love and cherish, ways and means, etc).

即使在今天， 结合盎格鲁-撒克逊和诺曼法语双联词的短语仍然很常用（例如法律与秩序、领主与主人、爱与珍惜、方式与手段等）。