single是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 单人的； 单一的， 单个的； 未婚的， 独身的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here, again, were shadows on the window-blind of guests assem-bling; and there a group of handsome girls, all hooded and fur-booted, and all chattering at once, tripped lightly off to some near neighbour's house; where, woe upon the single man who saw them enter artful witches, well they knew it in a glow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little more than a single syllable could have been spoken on either side.
-- At first I thought it quite hopeless, but I have unquestionably seen, for a single moment, the face that I once knew so well.
-- Mr. Cruncher's apartments were not in a savoury neigh-bourhood, and were but two in number, even if a closet with a single pane of glass in it might be counted as one.
-- 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.
-- Projectors who had discovered every kind of remedy for the little evils with which the State was touched, except the remedy of set-ting to work in earnest to root out a single sin, poured their distracting babble into any ears they could lay hold of, at the reception of Monseigneur.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accompanied by a select number of officers of the court, among whom were the two honest men who had already admired the cloth, he went to the crafty impostors, who, as soon as they were aware of the Emperor's approach, went on working more diligently than ever; although they still did not pass a single thread through the looms.
-- 'It is really dreadful,' groaned he with increasing anxiety; 'I cannot recognise East Street again; there is not a single de-cent shop from one end to the other!Nothing but wretched huts can I see anywhere; just as if I were at Ringstead.
-- The drops of water splashed up to the green leafy roof, and the clerk thought of the million of ephemera which in a single drop were thrown up to a height, that was as great doubtless for their size, as for us if we were to be hurled above the clouds.
-- The poisonous flies and gnats swarmed around by thou-sands; in vain one waved myrtle-branches about like mad; the audacious insect population did not cease to sting; nor was there a single person in the well-crammed carriage whose face was not swollen and sore from their ravenous bites.
-- So then the Fir Tree told the whole fairy tale, for he could remember every single word of it; and the little Mice jumped for joy up to the very top of the Tree.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it's better it should come to nothing, if he, Vronsky, is capable of falling in love with you in a single day."
-- Her face looked weary, and there was not that play of eagerness in it, peeping out in her smile and her eyes; but for a single instant, as she glanced at him, there was a flash of something in her eyes, and although the flash died away at once, he was happy for that moment.
-- "You know his weakness for balls, and he never misses a single court ball.
-- Vronsky drove to the French theater, where he really had to see the colonel of his regiment, who never missed a single performance there.
-- Not a single merchant ever buys a forest without counting the trees, unless they get it given them for nothing, as you're doing now.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A single domestic sufficed to serve him.
-- "Twenty thousand pounds, which you would lose by a single accidental delay!"
-- But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communication; should Phileas Fogg once miss, even by an hour; a steamer, he would have to wait for the next, and that would irrevocably render his attempt vain.
-- A single triangular sail, of strong canvas, was hoisted as a storm-jib, so as to hold the wind from behind.
-- Mr. Fogg had neither gained nor lost a single day.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beyond him was the turreted bulk of the Main Medical Building, a harsh and blurry mass, high up in its dark wall a single light.
-- When he arrived at the Armory, with Leora timorously brave in a blue crepe de chine made in no recognized style, he did not care whether he had a single two-step, though he did achingly desire to have the men crowd in and ask Leora, admire her and make her welcome.
-- Of course I understand why girls fall for Martin here, with his romantic eyes, but a grind like me, I have to go on working without a single person to give me sympathy.
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