horse sense常識。在英文中，以馬為比喻的事物，通常隱含了「不聰明，不精緻」的意思horse sense-開始也是如此。馬對於事物的應變能力比較基礎，也容易控制，所以後來便用於比喻「一般的知識，常識」
看看老外聊天時怎麼用horse sense：
Hank: Are you sure you can handle twenty days on the sea?
Amy: Of course! I'm professionally trained.
Hank: A lot of victims were professionally trained
Amy: Don't worry. The two old hands going with me are equipped with good horse sense.
Hank: Okay, if you say so.
漢克：你確定你受得了20天的海上生活嗎？
埃米：那當然！我受過專業訓練。漢克：有很多遇難者都受過專業訓練。
埃米：別擔心，和我一起去的那兩位老手常識非常豐富。
漢克：既然你這麼說的話，好吧。
horse sense例句精選：
He showed his political horse sense in a carefully worded speech.
他的一篇字斟句酌的演講顯示了他的政治常識。
Horse sense tells me that it would be suicide to do such a thing.
常識告訴我，那樣做等於自殺。
It's a shame you don't have any horse sense.
真遺憾，你連起碼的常識都沒有。
It's all very well having a university degree, but you cannot succeed in life without horse sense as well.
有一個大學學位，固然是很好的，但是在生活中沒有實際知識，你仍然不能獲得成功。
拓展學習：
general 普遍的
knowledge 知識
judgment 判斷力
acumen 敏銳
make sense 合理
with good reasoning 條理分明
distinguish from 區別