alone是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 单独的， 孤独的ad. 单独地， 独自地； 仅仅，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true."
-- The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
-- He said no more, but slowly waving a benediction, covered his face with his hands, and so remained kneeling, till all the people had departed, and he was left alone in the place.
-- Alone in his canoe, he paddled off to a distant strait, which he knew the ship must pass through when she quitted the island.
-- The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and fro ploughing it as his own special plantation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The board then proceeded to converse among themselves for a few minutes, but in so low a tone, that the words 'saving of expenditure,' 'looked well in the accounts,' 'have a printed report published,' were alone audible.
-- 'Let 'em alone for that,' replied the undertaker.
-- He was alone in a strange place; and we all know how chilled and desolate the best of us will sometimes feel in such a situation.
-- 'Why everybody lets him alone enough, for the matter of that.
-- It was not until he was left alone in the silence and stillness of the gloomy workshop of the undertaker, that Oliver gave way to the feelings which the day's treatment may be supposed likely to have awakened in a mere child.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might al-most have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first con-vey much gratification; but when Mrs. Phillips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the housekeeper's room.
-- When alone with Elizabeth afterwards, she spoke more on the subject.
-- He spoke of it as a certain event, of which the time alone could be undecided.
-- The elder Miss Bennets alone were still able to eat, drink, and sleep, and pursue the usual course of their employments.
-- Mrs. Bennet had no turn for economy, and her husband's love of independence had alone prevented their exceeding their income.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One evening she was alone at work standing up at the window, to save the twilight lingering above the wall when he opened the door and walked in.
-- A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.
-- How there had been a final interview with the head of the Circumlocution Office that very morning, and how the Brazen Head had spoken, and had been, upon the whole, and under all the circumstances, and looking at it from the various points of view, of opinion that one of two courses was to be pursued in respect of the business: that was to say, either to leave it alone for evermore, or to begin it all over again.
-- Two were playing dominoes at one of the little tables; three or four were seated round the stove, conversing as they smoked; the billiard-table in the centre was left alone for the time; the landlady of the Daybreak sat behind her little counter among her cloudy bottles of syrups, baskets of cakes, and leaden drainage for glasses, working at her needle.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.
-- To Jo alone did the shy child tell her thoughts, and over her big harum-scarum sister Beth unconsciously exercised more influence than anyone in the family.
-- 'There he is,' thought Jo, 'Poor boy!All alone and sick this dismal day.
-- Laurie colored up, but answered frankly, 'Why, you see I often hear you calling to one another, and when I'm alone up here, I can't help looking over at your house, you always seem to be having such good times.
-- 'I don't think I can bear it, but I'll try,' thought Amy, as she was left alone with Aunt March.
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