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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy, you are getting altogether too handsome for a single lady.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of.
-- For what seemed ages piled on ages, I lay there, frozen with the most awful fears, not daring to drag away my hand; yet ever thinking that if I could but stir it one single inch, the horrid spell would be broken.
-- Whilst I was thus closely scanning him, half-pretending meanwhile to be looking out at the storm from the casement, he never heeded my presence, never troubled himself with so much as a single glance; but appeared wholly occupied with counting the pages of the marvellous book.
-- But unlike Captain Peleg who cared not a rush for what are called serious things, and indeed deemed those self-same serious things the veriest of all trifles Captain Bildad had not only been originally educated according to the strictest sect of Nantucket Quakerism, but all his subsequent ocean life, and the sight of many unclad, lovely island creatures, round the Horn all that had not moved this native born Quaker one single jot, had not so much as altered one angle of his vest.
-- There he sat; and all he could do for all my polite arts and blandishments he would not move a peg, nor say a single word, nor even look at me, nor notice my presence in the slightest way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He hurried through several alleys and streets, and at length turned into one, lighted only by a single lamp at the farther end.
-- The small teapot, and the single cup, had awakened in her mind sad recollections of Mr. Corney (who had not been dead more than five-and-twenty years); and she was overpowered.
-- exclaimed the matron, 'what a very curious question from a single man.
-- 'Even if it had been the right place, and the right fellows had been there, what could I have done, single -handed?
-- 'I suppose, a married man,' replied Mr. Bumble, shading his eyes with his hand, and surveying the stranger, from head to foot, in evident perplexity, 'is not more averse to turning an honest penny when he can, than a single one.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in Ipossession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
-- 'Oh!Single, my dear, to be sure!A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.
-- Chapter 16 s no objection was made to the young people's engage-Ament with their aunt, and all Mr. Collins's scruples of leaving Mr. and Mrs. Bennet for a single evening during his visit were most steadily resisted, the coach conveyed him and his five cousins at a suitable hour to Meryton; and the girls had the pleasure of hearing, as they entered the draw-ing-room, that Mr. Wickham had accepted their uncle's invitation, and was then in the house.
-- The happiness anticipated by Catherine and Lydia depended less on any single event, or any particular person, for though they each, like Elizabeth, meant to dance half the evening with Mr. Wickham, he was by no means the only partner who could satisfy them, and a ball was, at any rate, a ball.
-- It was, moreover, such a promising thing for her younger daugh-ters, as Jane's marrying so greatly must throw them in the way of other rich men; and lastly, it was so pleasant at her time of life to be able to consign her single daughters to the care of their sister, that she might not be obliged to go into company more than she liked.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew that all the ships from Europe, which sailed either to the coast of Guinea or to Brazil, or to the East Indies, made this cape, or those islands; and, in a word, I put the whole of my fortune upon this single point, either that I must meet with some ship or must perish.
-- I con-sidered that the devil might have found out abundance of other ways to have terrified me than this of the single print of a foot; that as I lived quite on the other side of the island, he would never have been so simple as to leave a mark in a place where it was ten thousand to one whether I should ever see it or not, and in the sand too, which the first surge of the sea, upon a high wind, would have defaced entirely.
-- I showed them with what indefatigable pains I had hewed a large tree into single planks, and I caused them to do the like, till they made about a dozen large planks, of good oak, near two feet broad, thirty-five feet long, and from two inches to four inches thick: what prodigious labour it took up any one may imagine.
-- They needed very few argu-ments to persuade a single man to yield, when he saw five men upon him and his comrade knocked down: besides, this was, it seems, one of the three who were not so hearty in the mutiny as the rest of the crew, and therefore was eas-ily persuaded not only to yield, but afterwards to join very sincerely with us.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.
-- But if there should by any chance happen to be a woman who is single at seven and twenty, I should not think Colonel Brandon's being thirty-five any objection to his marrying HER."
-- cried Mrs. Jennings; "very pretty, indeed!and the Doctor is a single man, I warrant you."
-- Lucy does not want sense, and that is the foundation on which every thing good may be built. And after all, Marianne, after all that is bewitching in the idea of a single and constant attachment, and all that can be said of one's happiness depending entirely on any particular person, it is not meant it is not fit it is not possible that it should be so. Edward will marry Lucy; he will marry a woman superior in person and understanding to half her sex; and time and habit will teach him to forget that he ever thought another superior to HER.
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