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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Verne has perhaps had a larger share than any other single individual in causing the ever-increasing yearly tide of international travel.
-- Lady Helena and Miss Grant were too astonished to be able to utter a single word.
-- I should reproach myself were I to cause a single day's delay."
-- Jacques Paganel would not lose a single point of view, nor a single detail of the straits.
-- They were obliged to reconnoiter carefully before making a single step, on account of the crevasses.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Across the middle of it a single sentence had been formed by the expedient of pasting printed words upon it.
-- The pen has splut-tered twice in a single word, and has run dry three times in a short address, showing that there was very little ink in the bottle.
-- A dull light shone through heavy mullioned windows, and from the high chimneys which rose from the steep, high-angled roof there sprang a single black column of smoke.
-- Then he passed through the same door as before, and the light of the candle framed it in the darkness and shot one single yellow beam across the gloom of the corridor.
-- It was strange to see this single candle burning there in the middle of the moor, with no sign of life near it just the one straight yel-low flame and the gleam of the rock on each side of it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, Nastasia Philipovna's beauty became a thing known to all the town; but not a single man could boast of anything more than his own admiration for her; and this reputation of hers, and her wit and culture and grace, all confirmed Totski in the plan he had now prepared.
-- He remembered everything with the most accurate and extraordinary distinctness, and declared that he would never forget a single iota of the experience.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I understand you. You do not suppose that I have ever felt much. For four months, Marianne, I have had all this hanging on my mind, without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature; knowing that it would make you and my mother most unhappy whenever it were explained to you, yet unable to prepare you for it in the least. It was told me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself, whose prior engagement ruined all my prospects; and told me, as I thought, with triumph. This person's suspicions, therefore, I have had to oppose, by endeavouring to appear indifferent where I have been most deeply interested; and it has not been only once; I have had her hopes and exultation to listen to again and again. I have known myself to be divided from Edward for ever, without hearing one circumstance that could make me less desire the connection. Nothing has proved him unworthy; nor has anything declared him indifferent to me. I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages. And all this has been going on at a time, when, as you know too well, it has not been my only unhappiness. If you can think me capable of ever feeling surely you may suppose that I have suffered NOW.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now she walked quite aimlessly for a time, turning here and there, seeing one great company after another, but finding no courage to prosecute her single inquiry.
-- Her hands began to ache at the wrists and then in the fingers, and towards the last she seemed one mass of dull, complaining muscles, fixed in an eternal position and performing a single mechanical movement which became more and more distasteful, until as last it was absolutely nauseating.
-- He looked upon most women with suspicion--a single eye to the utility of beauty and dress.
-- He began to see the nature of that social injustice which sees but one side--often but a single point in a long tragedy.
-- "This here Single Tax is the thing," said another.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'NO, Jim; you couldn't understand a word they said not a single word.'
-- Conscience says to me, 'What had poor Miss Watson done to you that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word?
-- He was saying how the first thing he would do when he got to a free State he would go to saving up money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to where Miss Watson lived; and then they would both work to buy the two chil- dren, and if their master wouldn't sell them, they'd get an Ab'litionist to go and steal them.
-- Then the people begun to flock in, and the beats and the girls took seats in the front row at the head of the coffin, and for a half an hour the people filed around slow, in single rank, and looked down at the dead man's face a minute, and some dropped in a tear, and it was all very still and solemn, only the girls and the beats holding handkerchiefs to their eyes and keep- ing their heads bent, and sobbing a little.
-- But the lawyer he jumps on the table and yells, and says: 'Gentlemen gentleMEN!Hear me just a word just a SINGLE word if you PLEASE!There's one way yet let's go and dig up the corpse and look.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt ill. His eyes saw everything double, his legs trembled, his tongue was dry, and, try as he might, he could not utter a single word.
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