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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They could not leave it either, as the sea surrounded them; they must therefore put off till the next day their search for the engineer, from whom, alas!not a single cry had reached them to show that he was still in existence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having dealt out these admonitions, the ladies fell to a more powerful assault than they had yet made upon the mixed tea, new bread, fresh butter, shrimps, and watercresses, and said that their vexation was so great to see her going on like that, that they could hardly bring themselves to eat a single morsel.
-- 'If he is!He is the greatest tyrant that every lived, she daren't call her soul her own, he makes her tremble with a word and even with a look, he frightens her to death, and she hasn't the spirit to give him a word back, no, not a single word.'
-- Slight and ridiculous as the incident was, it made him appear such a little fiend, and withal such a keen and knowing one, that the old woman felt too much afraid of him to utter a single word, and suffered herself to be led with extraordinary politeness to the breakfast-table.
-- By a like pleasant fiction his single chamber was always mentioned in a plural number.
-- In its disengaged times, the tobacconist had announced it in his window as 'apartments' for a single gentleman, and Mr Swiveller, following up the hint, never failed to speak of it as his rooms, his lodgings, or his chambers, conveying to his hearers a notion of indefinite space, and leaving their imaginations to wander through long suites of lofty halls, at pleasure.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wished to remain in the apartment, but the landlord would not permit a single woman to occupy it, and she returned to her aunt.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Apparently the single house, and possibly even the household, had vanished.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Every single thing's crooked,' Alice thought to herself, 'and she's all over pins! may I put your shawl straight for you?'
-- But not a single bee has come near it yet.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was so much startled that I struggled to withdraw, but the blind man pulled me close up to him with a single action of his arm.
-- One was the same as the tattoo mark, "Billy Bones his fancy"; then there was "Mr. W. Bones, mate," "No more rum," "Off Palm Key he got itt," and some other snatches, mostly single words and unintelligible.
-- This was not the map we found in Billy Bones's chest, but an accurate copy, complete in all things names and heights and soundings with the single exception of the red crosses and the written notes.
-- From the east and west only a single shot had been fired.
-- I have that curiosity beside me at this moment, but not a trace of writing now remains beyond a single scratch, such as a man might make with his thumb-nail.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I began to tell our adventures, articulating each syllable clearly, and without omitting one single detail.
-- You will be free; and, in exchange for this liberty, I shall only impose one single condition.
-- Works on science, morals, and literature abounded in every language; but I did not see one single work on political economy; that subject appeared to be strictly proscribed.
-- The Captain came up to me, put his finger on one spot on the chart, and said this single word.
-- But he contented himself with a single dozen of these interesting marsupians.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I find," he said, "that one needs some one really pure single activity I should call love a single pure activity.
-- The single white figure appeared again, a presence in the room.
-- "What I want is a strange conjunction with you " he said quietly; "not meeting and mingling you are quite right but an equilibrium, a pure balance of two single beings as the stars balance each other."
-- But with the Mino, it is the desire to bring this female cat into a pure stable equilibrium, a transcendent and abiding rapport with the single male.
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