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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER III THE THOUSAND AND ONE BOTTLES So it was that on the twenty-ninth day of February, at the beginning of the thaw, this singular person fell out of infinity into Iping village.
-- He caught a glimpse of a most singular thing, what seemed a handless arm waving towards him, and a face of three huge indeterminate spots on white, very like the face of a pale pansy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet how one could have set eyes on so singular a face and yet have forgotten the precise occasion, passed my imagination.
-- The black-faced man, howling in a singular voice rolled about under the feet of the dogs.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is impossible to say what unlooked-for remark this short and silent communication, between two such singular men, might have elicited from the white man, had not his active curiosity been again drawn to other objects.
-- The strong glare of the fire fell full upon his sturdy, weath-er-beaten countenance and forest attire, lending an air of romantic wildness to the aspect of an individual, who, seen by the sober light of day, would have exhibited the peculiarities of a man remarkable for the strangeness of his dress, the iron-like inflexibility of his frame, and the singular compound of quick, vigilant sagacity, and of ex-quisite simplicity, that by turns usurped the possession of his muscular features.
-- As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular and solitary with the Indi-ans; though, for the honor of our common nature, neither are incapable of producing them.
-- Hawkeye spoke to him in Delaware, when the young chief took his position with singular caution and undisturbed coolness.
-- repeated Hawkeye, with singular and ill-con-cealed disdain; 'do you take me for a whimpering boy at the apronstring of one of your old gals; and this good rifle on my knee for the feather of a goose's wing, my ox's horn for a bottle of ink, and my leathern pouch for a cross-barred handkercher to carry my dinner?
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a hazardous, though maybe a gallant thing to do, since it is probable that the legend commonly received has had no small share in the growth of Strickland's reputation; for there are many who have been attracted to his art by the detestation in which they held his character or the compassion with which they regarded his death; and the son's well-meaning efforts threw a singular chill upon the father's admirers.
-- There is a singular fascination in watching the eagerness with which the learned author ferrets out every circumstance which may throw discredit on his hero.
-- Sometimes a man survives a considerable time from an era in which he had his place into one which is strange to him, and then the curious are offered one of the most singular spectacles in the human comedy.
-- She smiled, her smile was really very sweet, and she blushed a little; it was singular that a woman of that age should flush so readily.
-- Their life in its own way was an idyl, and it managed to achieve a singular beauty.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took Herbert to some distance from the nests, and there prepared his singular apparatus with all the care which a disciple of Izaak Walton would have used.
-- Let us observe, but do not dwell on these singular incidents before our companions.
-- "It is singular enough," remarked Spilett, "that this comparatively small island should present such varied ground.
-- Harding often remarked that when he approached the dark well which communicated with the sea, and of which the orifice opened at the back of the storeroom, Top uttered singular growlings.
-- Nothing is more wonderful or more singular than those enormous specimens of the order of the myrtaceae, with their leaves placed vertically and not horizontally, so that an edge and not a surface looks upwards, the effect being that the sun's rays penetrate more freely among the trees.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon the shrubby hill of its edge Weena would have stopped, fearing the darkness before us; but a singular sense of impending calamity, that should indeed have served me as a warning, drove me onward.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His person attracted attention, but above all the boldness of his look, which gave a singular expression to his face.
-- I stared at the singular person who spoke thus.
-- Was this singular man ill? had he altered his intentions with regard to us?
-- This forest was composed of large tree-plants; and the moment we penetrated under its vast arcades, I was struck by the singular position of their branches a position I had not yet observed.
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