solely是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为ad. 单独地, 唯一地,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It being all spent, he said, rising: 'So far, we have spoken before these two, because it was as well that the merits of the cards should not rest solely be-tween you and me.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At least not solely for that...I've been made a Kammerherr; of course, one has to say thank you.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He observed that the butchers stalls contained neither mutton, goat, nor pork; and, knowing also that it is a sacrilege to kill cattle, which are preserved solely for farming, he made up his mind that meat was far from plentiful in Yokohama nor was he mistaken; and, in default of butcher's meat, he could have wished for a quarter of wild boar or deer, a partridge, or some quails, some game or fish, which, with rice, the Japanese eat almost exclusively.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Therefore, in acquiring wealth solely and exclusively for myself, I am acquiring, so to speak, for all, and helping to 216 Crime and Punishmentbring to pass my neighbour's getting a little more than a torn coat; and that not from private, personal liberality, but as a consequence of the general advance.
-- Re-marking at his first entrance the dazzling beauty of Avdotya Romanovna, he endeavoured not to notice her at all during his visit and addressed himself solely to Pulcheria Alexan-drovna.
-- 'I should say, too,' continued Zossimov with zest, 'that your complete recovery depends solely on yourself.
-- Solely by her exertions and sacrifices, a criminal charge, involving an element of fantastic and homicidal brutality for which he might well have been sentenced to Siberia, was hushed up.
-- 'Your request that my brother should not be present at our meeting was disregarded solely at my instance,' said Dou- nia.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If he seems tohave been at all stern with a certain person, Peggotty- youunderstand, and so I am sure does Davy, that I am not alluding toanybody present- it is solely because he is satisfied that it is for acertain person's benefit.
-- He naturally loves a certain person, on myaccount; and acts solely for a certain person's good.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The sill was three or four feet above the ground, and for a moment one was at a loss for an explanation of this exceptional altitude, till ruts immediately beneath suggested that the door was used solely for the passage of articles and persons to and from the level of a vehicle standing on the outside.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A mind of moderate capacity which closely pur-sues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, im-proved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instru-ments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.
-- My atten-tion at this time was solely directed towards my plan of introducing myself into the cottage of my protectors.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- That person is the person from whom you derive your expectations, and the secret is solely held by that person and by me.
-- To my surprise, he seemed at once to be principally if not solely interested in Drummle.
-- To state that my terrible patron carried this little black book about the world solely to swear people on in cases of emergency, would be to state what I never quite established; but this I can say, that I never knew him put it to any other use.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As if an astronomical observatory should be made without any windows, and the astronomer within should arrange the starry universe solely by pen, ink, and paper, so Mr. Gradgrind, in his Observatory (and there are many like it), had no need to cast an eye upon the teeming myriads of human beings around him, but could settle all their destinies on a slate, and wipe out all their tears with one dirty little bit of sponge.
-- I am solely to blame for the thing having come to this and and, I cannot say,' he added, rather hard up for a general peroration, 'that I have any sanguine expectation of ever becoming a moral sort of fellow, or that I have any belief in any moral sort of fellow whatever.'
-- 'If this is solely a question of self-interest with you ' Mr. Gradgrind began.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "Ever since we have been at Stapi, my mind has been almost solely occupied with the grave question which has been submitted to me by yourself--for nothing would be unwiser and more inconsistent than to act with imprudence."
-- There was no chance that way, unless I looked to the ivy solely for support.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such a nursery of statesmen had the Department become in virtue of a long career of this nature, that several solemn lords had attained the reputation of being quite unearthly prodigies of business, solely from having practised, How not to do it, as the head of the Circumlocution Office.
-- Yet there were two or three small airless houses at the entrance end of Mews Street, which went at enormous rents on account of their being abject hangers-on to a fashionable situation; and whenever one of these fearful little coops was to be let (which seldom happened, for they were in great request), the house agent advertised it as a gentlemanly residence in the most aristocratic part of town, inhabited solely by the elite of the beau monde.
-- Mother and I know, solely from being practical, that there are times when that girl's whole nature seems to roughen itself against seeing us so bound up in Pet.
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