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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joe put his mouth into the forms of returning such a highly elaborate answer, that I could make out nothing of it but the single word "Pip."
-- It was like striking out a horseshoe complete, in a single blow.
-- This part of the Course was usually lightened by several single combats between Biddy and refractory students.
-- "Which I meantersay, Pip," Joe now observed in a manner that was at once expressive of forcible argumentation, strict confidence, and great politeness, "as I hup and married your sister, and I were at the time what you might call (if you was anyways inclined) a single man."
-- Within a single year all this was changed.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The child is quite black, only it has white paws, but with that exception, it has not a single white hair on its whole body; this only happens once every few years, you will let me go, won't you?'
-- So she shook the tree, and the apples came falling down upon her like rain; but she con-tinued shaking until there was not a single apple left upon it.
-- She went down into the garden and strewed with her own hands ten sacksful of millet-seed on the grass; then she said: 'Tomorrow morning before sunrise these must be picked up, and not a single grain be wanting.'
-- But as soon as the first rays of the sun shone into the garden he saw all the ten sacks standing side by side, quite full, and not a single grain was missing.
-- They began to 353flee, but the youth pursued, and never stopped, until there was not a single man left.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consid-er, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved; for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corrup-tions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my in- tentions.
-- I reflected what a mortification it must prove to me, to appear as inconsiderable in this nation, as one single Lilliputian would be among us.
-- There could not be few-er than thirty persons with their wives and children (for the country is very populous;) and my master demanded the rate of a full room whenever he showed me at home, al-though it were only to a single family; so that for some time I had but little ease every day of the week (except Wednes-day, which is their Sabbath,) although I were not carried to the town.
-- How often did I then wish myself with my dear Glum-dalclitch, from whom one single hour had so far divided me!And I may say with truth, that in the midst of my own misfortunes I could not forbear lamenting my poor nurse, the grief she would suffer for my loss, the displeasure of the queen, and the ruin of her fortune.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My mother had much desired to have a daughter, but I continued their single offspring.
-- I was unable to remain for a single instant in the same place; I jumped over the chairs, clapped my hands, and laughed aloud.
-- Alas!I prophesied truly, and failed only in one single circumstance, that in all the misery I imagined and dreaded, I did not conceive the hundredth part of the anguish I was destined to endure.
-- I did not know the names of the towns that I was to pass through, nor could I ask informa-tion from a single human being; but I did not despair.
-- I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was to me like the torture of single drops of water continually falling on the head.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Old Angus had never manumitted a single slave and had committed the unpardonablesocial breach of selling some of his negroes to passing slave traders en route to the cane fields of Louisiana, but therumors persisted.
-- Have you thought thatwe would not have a single warship and that the Yankee fleet could bottle up our harbors in a week, so that we couldnot sell our cotton abroad?
-- Athousand incoherent thoughts shot through her mind, and she could not catch a single one to mold into a word.
-- In a space of time but little longer than Scarlett's seventeen years, Atlanta had grown from a single stake driven inthe ground into a thriving small city of ten thousand that was the center of attention for the whole state.
-- Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag That bears a single star!"
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