sole是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 单独的, 惟一的; 独有的 n. 脚底, 鞋底, 袜底，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett could not imagine her mother's handswithout her gold thimble or her rustling figure unaccompanied by the small negro girl whose sole function in life wasto remove basting threads and carry the rosewood sewing box from room to room, as Ellen moved about the housesuperintending the cooking, the cleaning and the wholesale clothes-making for the plantation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried my sister, casting off her bonnet in sudden desperation, "here I stand talking to mere Mooncalfs, with Uncle Pumblechook waiting, and the mare catching cold at the door, and the boy grimed with crock and dirt from the hair of his head to the sole of his foot!"
-- It was the sole resource; for he told me that the case must be over in five minutes when the witness was there, and that no power on earth could prevent its going against us.
-- For the beam across the parlor ceiling at Mill Pond Bank had then ceased to tremble under old Bill Barley's growls and was at peace, and Herbert had gone away to marry Clara, and I was left in sole charge of the Eastern Branch until he brought her back.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the entire village was dead, and the small peasant, as sole heir, became a rich man.
-- But he begged so hard that the king let him go; and the prince thought to himself, 'If I bring my father this water, he will make me sole heir to his kingdom.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so unmeasureable is the ambition of princes, that he seemed to think of nothing less than reducing the whole empire of Blefuscu into a province, and governing it, by a viceroy; of destroying the Big- endian exiles, and com-pelling that people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by which he would remain the sole monarch of the whole world.
-- And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the em-peror's revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty's subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to pos-terity.
-- I hope the gentle reader will excuse me for dwelling on these and the like particulars, which, however insignifi-cant they may appear to groveling vulgar minds, yet will certainly help a philosopher to enlarge his thoughts and imagination, and apply them to the benefit of public as well as private life, which was my sole design in presenting this and other accounts of my travels to the world; wherein I have been chiefly studious of truth, without affecting any ornaments of learning or of style.
-- I made my humblest acknowledgment to this illustrious person, for his great communicativeness; and promised, 'if ever I had the good fortune to return to my native coun-try, that I would do him justice, as the sole inventor of this 230 Gulliver's Travelswonderful machine;' the form and contrivance of which I desired leave to delineate on paper, as in the figure here annexed.
-- He told me, 'he had for many years been commander of a ship; and in the sea fight at Actium had the good fortune to break through the enemy's great line of battle, sink three of their capital ships, and take a fourth, which was the sole cause of Antony's flight, and of the victory that ensued; that the youth standing by him, his only son, was killed in the action.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sole remaining question then is: Shall I marry him?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Geology and mineralogy were to us the sole objects of life, and in connection with these studies many a fair specimen of stone, chalk, or metal did we break with our hammers.
-- And the old cook, the young lady, the Professor and I were the sole inhabitants.
-- "Ofvanfor," was his sole spoken reply.
-- "This wretched want of water," he said, "is the sole obstacle to the success of my project.
-- My sole reply was to shake my head with an air of deep incredulity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the old cellaret with nothing in it, lined with lead, like a sort of coffin in compartments; there was the old dark closet, also with nothing in it, of which he had been many a time the sole contents, in days of punishment, when he had regarded it as the veritable entrance to that bourne to which the tract had found him galloping.
-- 'Besides, mother, you being sole executrix, and having the direction and management of the estate, there remained little business, or I might say none, that I could transact, until you had had time to arrange matters to your satisfaction.'
-- When, to these three-fold points of prudence there is added the fact that Mrs Gowan yielded her consent the moment she knew of Mr Meagles having yielded his, and that Mr Meagles's objection to the marriage had been the sole obstacle in its way all along, it becomes the height of probability that the relict of the deceased Commissioner of nothing particular, turned these ideas in her sagacious mind.
-- How they had employed John Chivery as their sole clerk and agent, seeing to whom he was devoted.
-- But he had spoken to her alone, and had said that people ha people in an exalted position, my dear, must scrupulously exact respect from their dependents; and that for her, his daughter, Miss Amy Dorrit, of the sole remaining branch of the Dorrits of Dorsetshire, to be known to hum to occupy herself in fulfilling the functions of ha hum a valet, would be incompatible with that respect.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may seem unwarrantable to couple in any respect the mast-head standers of the land with those of the sea; but that in truth it is not so, is plainly evinced by an item for which Obed Macy, the sole historian of Nantucket, stands accountable.
-- There are those this day among them, who, though intelligent and courageous enough in offering battle to the Greenland or Right whale, would perhaps either from professional inexperience, or incompetency, or timidity, decline a contest with the Sperm Whale; at any rate, there are plenty of whalemen, especially among those whaling nations not sailing under the American flag, who have never hostilely encountered the Sperm Whale, but whose sole knowledge of the leviathan is restricted to the ignoble monster primitively pursued in the North; seated on their hatches, these men will hearken with a childish fireside interest and awe, to the wild, strange tales of Southern whaling.
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