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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, came that singular calm and silence which succeed all uproars; and then, with the vague sensation which I have always connected with such a lull,--namely, that it was Sunday, and somebody was dead,--I went upstairs to dress myself.
-- Now, I too had so often thought it a pity, that, in the singular kind of quarrel with myself which I was always carrying on, I was half inclined to shed tears of vexation and distress when Biddy gave utterance to her sentiment and my own.
-- He said with a tearful smile that it was a singular thing to think of now, and I said so too.
-- It struck me as a singular implication that you couldn't be out of a counting-house, you know, and look about you; but I silently deferred to his experience.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two days after this adventure, the emperor, having or-dered that part of his army which quarters in and about his metropolis, to be in readiness, took a fancy of diverting himself in a very singular manner.
-- They beheld me with all the marks and circum-stances of wonder; neither indeed was I much in their debt, having never till then seen a race of mortals so singular in their shapes, habits, and countenances.
-- But as to honour, justice, wisdom, and learning, they should not be taxed at all; be-cause they are qualifications of so singular a kind, that no man will either allow them in his neighbour or value them in himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On his telling her where he worked, the old woman became a more singular old woman than before.
-- You have made up your mind,' said Louisa, still standing before him where she had first stopped in all the singular contrariety of her self-possession, and her being obviously very ill at ease 'to show the nation the way out of all its difficulties.'
-- 'You are a singular politician,' said Louisa.
-- 'We live in a singular world, sir,' said Mrs. Sparsit.
-- 'A singular world, I would say, sir,' pursued Mrs. Sparsit; after acknowledging the compliment with a drooping of her dark eyebrows, not altogether so mild in its expression as her voice was in its dulcet tones; 'as regards the intimacies we form at one time, with individuals we were quite ignorant of, at another.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But one thing struck his fancy, and that was a certain singular steeple situated on the Island of Amak, which is the southeast quarter of the city of Copenhagen.
-- On the eighth day, the captain made out Myganness, the westernmost of the isles, and from that moment headed direct for Portland, a cape on the southern shores of the singular island for which we were bound.
-- It stretches its humble tenements along the end of a little fjord, surrounded by a basaltic wall of the most singular character.
-- It assumes regular forms, which astonish by their singular appearance.
-- This singular flight of stairs was, like everything else, volcanic.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even in the moment of her entrance, upon the violent ringing of the bell, when the mother shielded herself with that singular action from the son, Mrs Clennam's eyes had had some individual recognition in them, which seemed reserved for her.
-- Mr Pancks here made a singular and startling noise, produced by a strong blowing effort in the region of the nose, unattended by any result but that acoustic one.
-- He was a singular man in all respects; he might not have been quite in earnest, but that the short, hard, rapid manner in which he shot out these cinders of principles, as if it were done by mechanical revolvency, seemed irreconcilable with banter.
-- What with these ghostly apprehensions and her singular dreams, Mrs Flintwinch fell that evening into a haunted state of mind, from which it may be long before this present narrative descries any trace of her recovery.
-- 'My sister, ma'am,' said Fanny, in whom there was a singular mixture of deference and hardihood, 'has been asking me to tell her, as between sisters, how I came to have the honour of knowing you.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was struck with the singular posture he maintained.
-- For that singular craft at times evinced by the Sperm Whale when, sounding with his head in one direction, he nevertheless, while concealed beneath the surface, mills round, and swiftly swims off in the opposite quarter this deceitfulness of his could not now be in action; for there was no reason to suppose that the fish seen by Tashtego had been in any way alarmed, or indeed knew at all of our vicinity.
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