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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bert further propounded (while his father squeaked, "Now don't be TOO hard on the boy,") that if Martin THOUGHT for one single SECOND that he was going to get one red CENT out of the Tozers because he'd gone and butted IN where nobody'd INVITED him, he, Bert, wanted to KNOW about it, that was all, he certainly wanted to KNOW about it!
-- In verse and aphorism, Pickings recommended good health, good roads, good business, and the single standard of morality.
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：
-- She was a single woman of about thirty-five, tall, clumsy, timid, submissive and almost idiotic.
-- But for that, there would never have been a single great man.
-- In spite of all his agonising inward struggle, he never for a single instant all that time could believe in the carry-ing out of his plans.
-- All his ideas now seemed to be circling round some single point, and he felt that there really was such a point, and that now, now, he was left facing that point and for the first time, indeed, during the last two months.
-- 'Why, if ever again 芒聙娄 you dare to mention a single word 芒聙娄 about my mother 芒聙娄 I shall send you flying downstairs!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How they affected my aunt, nobody knew; for immediatelyupon the separation she took her maiden name again, bought acottage in a hamlet on the sea-coast a long way off, establishedherself there as a single woman with one servant, and wasunderstood to live secluded, ever afterwards, in an inflexibleretirement.
-- Not a single word didPeggotty speak.
-- I heardthat with the single exception of Mr. Creakle, Tungay consideredthe whole establishment, masters and boys, as his natural enemies,and that the only delight of his life was to be sour and malicious.
-- But I never,happily for me no doubt, made a single acquaintance, or spoke toany of the many boys whom I saw daily in going to the warehouse,in coming from it, and in prowling about the streets at meal-times.
-- When we got outside thedoor, Peggotty informed me that Mr. Barkis, being now 'a littlenearer' than he used to be, always resorted to this same devicebefore producing a single coin from his store; and that he enduredunheard-of agonies in crawling out of bed alone, and taking it fromthat unlucky box.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife, so constantly occu-pied either in his business in town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always cheerful Mr. Weston need not spend a single evening in the year alone if he did not like it.
-- There is nobody in Highbury who deserves him and he has been here a whole year, and has fitted up his house so comfortably, that it would be a shame to have him single any longer and I thought when he was joining their 14 Emmahands to-day, he looked so very much as if he would like to have the same kind office done for him!I think very well of Mr. Elton, and this is the only way I have of doing him a service.'
-- She knew that at times she must be missed; and could not think, without pain, of Emma's losing a single pleasure, or suffering an hour's ennui, from the want of her compan-ionableness: but dear Emma was of no feeble character; she was more equal to her situation than most girls would have been, and had sense, and energy, and spirits that might be hoped would bear her well and happily through its little dif-ficulties and privations.
-- She lived with her single daughter in a very small way, and was considered with all the regard and respect which a harmless old lady, under such untoward circumstances, can excite.
-- She had taken up a wrong idea, fancying it was a mother and daughter, a son and son's wife, who all lived together; but when it appeared that the Mr. Martin, who bore a part in the narrative, and was always mentioned with approbation for his great good-nature in doing something or other, was a single man; that there was no young Mrs. Martin, no wife in the case; she did suspect danger to her poor little friend from all this hospi-tality and kindness, and that, if she were not taken care of, she might be required to sink herself forever.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finding that the area of a single county did not afford a canvas large enough for this purpose, and that there were objections to an invented name, I disinterred the old one.
-- Gabriel's features adhered throughout their form so exactly to the middle line between the beauty of St. John and the ugliness of Judas Iscariot, as represented in a window of the church he attended, that not a single lineament could be selected and called worthy either of distinction or notoriety.
-- Not a single bleat.
-- There was no window in front; but a square hole in the door was glazed with a single pane, through which red, comfortable rays now stretched out upon the ivied wall in front.
-- Not a single damn allowed; no, not a bare poor one, even at the most cheerful moment when all were blindest, though the good old word of sin thrown in here and there at such times is a great relief to a merry soul."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One single consideration influenced all these human beings thrown together by chance.
-- Eugene had been dazzled at first by the brilliant assembly, and had scarcely exchanged a few words with the Vicomtesse; he had been content to single out a goddess among this throng of Parisian divinities, one of those women who are sure to attract a young man's fancy.
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