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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just at this juncture the old cousin died, and Harry Grant's two children were left alone in the world.
-- Thaouka, indeed, could have galloped swiftly enough, and reached the RIO in a few hours, but Thalcave would not leave his companions behind, alone in the midst of a desert.
-- Five minutes afterward, and the horses were swimming; the current alone carried them along with tremendous force, and with a swiftness equal to their fastest gallop; they must have gone fully twenty miles an hour.
-- Not a single tree was visible on the liquid plain; the OMBU stood alone amid the rolling waters, and trembled before them.
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：
-- I don't wonder that my uncle got a little jumpy if he lived all alone in such a house as this.
-- By the way, your instructions to me never to allow Sir Henry to go out alone will become very much more onerous if a love affair were to be added to our other difficulties.
-- I am sorry to intrude, but you heard how earnestly Holmes insisted that I should not leave you, and especially that you should not go alone upon the moor.'
-- At first he was very eager to come, but on second thoughts it seemed to both of us that if I went alone the results might be better.
-- 'Do you think a woman could go alone at that hour to a bachelor's house?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Probably when he is alone he looks quite different, and hardly smiles at all!'
-- But Gania hardly so much as glanced at the papers lying before him; he was absent and thought-ful, and his smile and general appearance struck the prince still more disagreeably now that the two were left alone to-gether.
-- He had said that he intended to stop at no means to obtain his free-dom; even if Nastasia were to promise to leave him entirely alone in future, he would not (he said) believe and trust her; words were not enough for him; he must have solid guaran-tees of some sort.
-- The idea alone that she could in any way serve them, would be to her both a pride and a source of real happiness.
-- Sometimes I went and climbed the mountain and stood there in the midst of the tall pines, all alone in the terrible silence, with our little village in the distance, and the sky so blue, and the sun so bright, and an old ruined castle on the mountain-side, far away.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still I will give her up if I must, for I would have the people live, not die; but you must find me a prize instead, or I alone among the Argives shall be without one.
-- Then Achilles went all alone by the side of the hoar sea, weeping and looking out upon the boundless waste of waters.
-- Ofttimes in my father's house have I heard you glory in that you alone of the immortals saved the son of Saturn from ruin, when the others, with Juno, Neptune, and Pallas Minerva would have put him in bonds.
-- Thetis was not un-mindful of the charge her son had laid upon her, so she rose from under the sea and went through great heaven with early morning to Olympus, where she found the mighty son of Saturn sitting all alone upon its topmost ridges.
-- Nestor could alone rival him, for he was older.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A guest to stop at Iping in the wintertime was an unheard-of piece of luck, let alone a guest who was no "haggler," and she was resolved to show herself worthy of her good fortune.
-- "I thought, sir," said Mrs. Hall, "you'd prefer the clock " "Certainly," said the stranger, "certainly but, as a rule, I like to be alone and undisturbed.
-- He felt alone in the room and looked up, and there, grey and dim, was the bandaged head and huge blue lenses staring fixedly, with a mist of green spots drifting in front of them.
-- Why was I always alone and secretive?
-- Lucky it was I lived alone and untended in my room.
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