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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A breach in one single pane of glass would have been immediate death: nor could any thing have pre-served the windows, but the strong lattice wires placed on the outside, against accidents in travelling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the measure that he would not allow his own youth to have been attended by a single favourable circumstance, he brightened Mrs. Sparsit's juvenile career with every possible advantage, and showered waggon-loads of early roses all over that lady's path.
-- He will not be happy for a single minute, till he comes back.'
-- It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions.
-- He thought, as she once more shaded them not so much looking at him, as looking for him with a brutish instinct that he was there that no single trace was left in those debauched features, or in the mind that went along with them, of the woman he had married eighteen years before.
-- 'I'm th' one single Hand in Bounderby's mill, o' a' the men theer, as don't coom in wi' th' proposed reg'lations.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We walked in single file, preceded by Hans, the imperturbable eider-duck hunter.
-- It was totally impossible for me to answer a single word.
-- I immediately knew that the gallery was filled to overflowing with that dangerous gas the miners call fire damp, the explosion of which has caused such fearful and terrible accidents, making a hundred widows and hundreds of orphans in a single hour.
-- "Go back--yes, and without losing a single moment," I vehemently cried.
-- I did not know a single word of the Danish language, and yet by a sort of mysterious instinct I understood what the guide had said.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There had been no welcome home for the young squire, no festivities, no deputation, not even a single flower.
-- Not the stuff of beauty, not even the body of beauty, but a lambency, the warm, white flame of a single life, revealing itself in contours that one might touch: a body!
-- said Mrs Bolton, as she carefully separat-ed the young columbines into single plants.
-- And he stuck flowers in the hair of his own body, and wound a bit of creeping-jenny round his penis, and stuck a single bell of a hyacinth in his navel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The affairs of this debtor were perplexed by a partnership, of which he knew no more than that he had invested money in it; by legal matters of assignment and settlement, conveyance here and conveyance there, suspicion of unlawful preference of creditors in this direction, and of mysterious spiriting away of property in that; and as nobody on the face of the earth could be more incapable of explaining any single item in the heap of confusion than the debtor himself, nothing comprehensible could be made of his case.
-- Why should I ever forget it for a single moment?'
-- A single basket made of moss, once containing plovers' eggs, held all that the poulterer had to say to the rabble.
-- Seeing that the happiness her mind could realise was all shining upon him, Arthur kept that single figure before her; and so they rode brightly through the poor streets in the prison neighbourhood to carry him the great news.
-- A craggy track, up which the mules in single file scrambled and turned from block to block, as though they were ascending the broken staircase of a gigantic ruin, was their way now.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then things went smoothly, for Don Pedro defied the world in a speech of two pages without a single break.
-- She assumed an injured air as they came in, never lifted her eyes from her book, or asked a single question.
-- 'And come every single day?'
-- 'I haven't a single finger bowl, but this is a setout that will last me all my days, Hannah says.'
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