I suspect that turnips were a common root vegetable at the time.

我怀疑萝卜在当时是一种常见的根菜。

Some English words have a common root, but are used in very different senses.

一些英语单词有一个共同的词根，但在不同的意义上使用。

There are two words with a common root which have been dancing with each other in my mind over the weekend.

周末，有两个同根词一直在我脑海里跳来跳去。

He traveled a great deal and divided his time between homes in New York City and Switzerland. But he started out from more common roots.

他经常旅行，往来于纽约和瑞士的家中。但他是从更普通的出身开始的。

The time at any moment was a number of varying doctrines professed by the different hamlets, some of them having originally grown up from a common root, and then become divided by secession, some having been alien from the beginning.

不同的村庄在任何时刻对时间的说法都各不相同，有些村庄在最开始对时间的看法还是一致的，后来慢慢就发生了变化，而有些村庄在一开始就大相径庭。