singular是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 非凡的; 卓越的，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：
-- As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty fig-ure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his 27own with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a singular capacity (remembering how young and smooth it was), of rifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of a bright fixed attention, though it included all the four ex-pressions-as his eyes rested on these things, a sudden vivid likeness passed before him, of a child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel, one cold time, when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high.
-- The young forehead lifted itself into that singular expres-29sion but it was pretty and characteristic, besides being singular and she raised her hand, as if with an involun-tary action she caught at, or stayed some passing shadow.
-- A singular circumstance then arose in the case.
-- But, he said not a single word in ref-erence to the discovery that had been told of, and, as they went into the house, the business eye of Mr. Lorry either detected, or fancied it detected, on his face, as it turned towards Charles Darnay, the same singular look that had been upon it when it turned towards him in the passages of the Court House.
-- It may be the character of his mind, to be always in singular need of occupation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Don't you see, the description which you have there has a singular resemblance to an honest man?"
-- Fix's face seemed to have a singular expression.
-- The first thing to do was to find Mr. Fogg, and apologise for his singular behaviour.
-- There Passepartout beheld beautiful fir and cedar groves, sacred gates of a singular architecture, bridges half hid in the midst of bamboos and reeds, temples shaded by immense cedar-trees, holy retreats where were sheltered Buddhist priests and sectaries of Confucius, and interminable streets, where a perfect harvest of rose-tinted and red-cheeked children, who looked as if they had been cut out of Japanese screens, and who were playing in the midst of short-legged poodles and yellowish cats, might have been gathered.
-- Another reproduced the most singular combinations with a spinning-top; in his hands the revolving tops seemed to be animated with a life of their own in their interminable whirling; they ran over pipe-stems, the edges of sabres, wires and even hairs stretched across the stage; they turned around on the edges of large glasses, crossed bamboo ladders, dispersed into all the corners, and produced strange musical effects by the combination of their various pitches of tone.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Possibly the thing he most liked in Leora was her singular ability to be cheerfully non- existent even when she was present.
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：
-- In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My stool was such a tower ofobservation, that as I watched him reading on again, after thisrapturous exclamation, and following up the lines with hisforefinger, I observed that his nostrils, which were thin andpointed, with sharp dints in them, had a singular and mostuncomfortable way of expanding and contracting themselves; that 223they seemed to twinkle instead of his eyes, which hardly evertwinkled at all.
-- It was with a singular jumble of sadness and pleasure that I used tolinger about my native place, until the reddening winter sunadmonished me that it was time to start on my returning walk.
-- During the whole of thisday, but especially from this period of it, Steerforth exerted himselfwith his utmost skill, and that was with his utmost ease, to charmthis singular creature into a pleasant and pleased companion.
-- I have received a very singular letter, Traddles,from Mr.
-- It was singular to see how the mother still held to theold trick, when the son had abandoned it as useless.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Matthew Moon, ma'am," said a singular framework of clothes with nothing of any consequence inside them, which advanced with the toes in no definite direction forwards, but turned in or out as they chanced to swing.
-- This singular accident, by a strange confluence of emotions in him, was felt as the sharpest sting of all.
-- Taking no further interest in herself as a splendid woman, she acquired the indifferent feelings of an outsider in contemplating her probable fate as a singular wretch; for Bathsheba drew herself and her future in colours that no reality could exceed for darkness.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eugene feared that his neighbor had been taken ill; he went over and looked through the keyhole; the old man was busily engaged in an occupation so singular and so suspicious that Rastignac thought he was only doing a piece of necessary service to society to watch the self- styled vermicelli maker's nocturnal industries.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a boy of singular talent and fancy.
-- When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the same early morning, I discovered a singular affinity between seeds and corduroys.
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