| 单词 | lonely |
| 释义 | lonely (loʊnli ) Word forms: lonelier , loneliest 1. adjective B1 Someone who is lonely is unhappy because they are alone or do not have anyone they can talk to. ...lonely people who just want to talk. I feel lonelier in the middle of London than I do on my boat in the middle of nowhere. Synonyms: solitary, alone, isolated, abandoned The lonely are people who are lonely. He looks for the lonely, the lost, the unloved. 2. adjective B1 A lonely situation or period of time is one in which you feel unhappy because you are alone or do not have anyone to talk to. I desperately needed something to occupy me during those long, lonely nights. ...her lonely childhood. 3. adjective B2 A lonely place is one where very few people come. It felt like the loneliest place in the world. ...dark, lonely streets. Synonyms: desolate, deserted, remote, isolated Idioms: plough a lonely furrow or plough a lone furrow to do something by yourself and in your own way, without any help or support from other people It seems that Shattock was something of an original thinker, ploughing a lonely furrow. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: a bit lonely He claimed, like myself, he had just come out of a long relationship and seemed a bit lonely. The Sun As you sweat it out in the gym/park/ pool/back of a class it can be a bit lonely and decidedly unmotivating. The Sun For a while, they rode the wave, but found it a bit lonely. Times, Sunday Times It can get a bit lonely at half-time when you're standing by yourself and you see the players getting together in a group. Times, Sunday Times My horse was a bit lonely out wide on his own. The Sun What they had sacrificed, the long, lonely hours on the track, river and field. The Sun You either look at all those lonely hours, or you look at the potential they offer. Christianity Today There are more lonely hours ahead. Times, Sunday Times Captains and all-rounders have a bigger workload than anyone else and you have to be prepared for some lonely hours to keep everything in good order. Times, Sunday Times It's not just the relentless work, the lonely hours of practising and the uncertain pay. Times, Sunday Times But unhappy at my presence in such a lonely spot, they began to drift away, and then kicked their heels up and ran for it. Times, Sunday Times In a bleak and lonely spot, it marks where a king died. Times, Sunday Times At a lonely spot, the escapees decide to get rid of their captives. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Hers was a lonely voice. Times, Sunday Times And it was far from a lonely voice. Globe and Mail Yet in the past decade he had become an increasingly lonely voice. Times, Sunday Times I follow more than 2,000 people and hers was a lone and lonely voice. Times, Sunday Times A lonely voice speaks to us out of the unaccountable singleness of its being, and we attend with the unaccountable singleness of ours. The Times Literary Supplement Translations: Chinese: 孤独的 Japanese: 孤独の |
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