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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What an eternity of days, and all mine!How I should grudge and count up ev-ery minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!'
-- Don't you think we may say there does not exist a single person so honest that he has never stolen anything whatever in his life?'
-- 'Men have always bargained for me, before this; and not a single respectable man has ever proposed to marry me.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man chafes at having to stay away from his wife even for a single month, when he is on shipboard, at the mercy of wind and sea, but it is now nine long years that we have been kept here; I cannot, therefore, blame the Achaeans if they turn restive; still we shall be shamed if we go home empty after so long a stay therefore, my friends, be patient yet a little longer that we may learn whether the prophesyings of Calchas were false or true.
-- As for the common soldiers, they were so that I could not name every single one of them though I had ten tongues, and though my voice failed not and my heart were of bronze within me, unless you, O Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Jove, were to recount them to me.
-- On his shoulders he bore the skin of a panther, his bow, and his sword, and he brandished two spears shod with bronze as a challenge to the bravest of the Achaeans to meet him in single fight.
-- Alexandrus and Menelaus are to fight for Helen in single combat, that she and all her wealth may go with him who is the victor.
-- Go, then, and challenge him again but I should advise you not to do so, for if you are foolish enough to meet him in single combat, you will soon fall by his spear.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a long hush, for no single wolf cared to fight Akela to the death.
-- Their wives never came to the island until late in May or early in June, for they did not care to be torn to pieces; and the young two-, three-, and four-year-old seals who had not begun housekeeping went inland about half a mile through the ranks of the fighters and played about on the sand dunes in droves and legions, and rubbed off every single green thing that grew.
-- But within the limits of the clearing there was not a single blade of green noth-ing but the trampled earth.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a single in-stant his searching and yet wary glance met the wondering look of the other, and then changing its direction, partly in cunning, and partly in disdain, it remained fixed, as if pen-etrating the distant air.
-- He hesitated a single instant, and bending a cautious glance toward his companion, he continued, in a manner that was divided between interrogation and assertion.
-- 'The thief is leaning against the foot of the sugar sapling, that you can see over them bushes; his right leg is in a line with the bark of the tree, and,' tapping his rifle, 'I can take him from where I stand, between the angle and the knee, with a single shot, putting an end to his tramping through the woods, for at least a month to come.
-- Every effort to detect the point most regarded by the runner was completely frustrated by the tremulous glances of his organs, which seemed not to rest a single instant on any particular object, and which, at the same time, could be hardly said to move.
-- But when he felt the fingers of Heyward moving gently along his own naked arm, he struck up the limb of the young man, and, uttering a piercing cry, he darted beneath it, and plunged, at a single bound, into the opposite thicket.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Brom, who had a degree of rough chivalry in his nature, would fain have carried matters to open warfare and have settled their pretensions to the lady, according to the mode of those most concise and simple reasoners, the knights-errant of yore, by single combat; but lchabod was too conscious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him; he had overheard a boast of Bones, that he would 'double the schoolmaster up, and lay him on a shelf of his own schoolhouse;' and he was too wary to give him an opportunity.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She'll never make you a single reproach."
-- There are men whom a merciful Providence has undoubtedly ordained to a single life, but who from wilfulness or through circumstances they could not cope with have flown in the face of its decrees.
-- I am in the position of a biologist who from a single bone must reconstruct not only the appearance of an extinct animal, but its habits.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The watery expanse did not present a single speck of land, not a solid surface upon which their anchor could hold.
-- Not a single murmur escaped from their lips.
-- The reporter, to whom his tedious captivity did not offer a single incident worthy of note, could stand it no longer.
-- But they could not in the dark determine whether it was a single island, or connected with others.
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