| 单词 | single |
| 释义 | sin·gle I. 1. a. < take anything she can get in the way of a husband rather than face penury as a single woman — G.B.Shaw > b. < prefers the single state > 2. < he is left alone, single and unsupported, like a leafless trunk — Mirror > 3. a. (1) < double consonants are often used in place of single consonants > < binocular single vision was tested — H.G.Armstrong > (2) < undertaking to justify a single scale of rates for the entire country — W.M.W.Splawn > < the states sought a single type of automobile plate > (3) < a single anchor holds the boat > < holds to a single ideal > — often used with not < not a single opponent of statehood appeared before the committee — Midwest Journal > < has not made one single concession to any other quarter — R.T.H.Fletcher > b. < a single rose > 4. a. < when nature is so careless of the single life, why should we coddle ourselves — R.L.Stevenson > < each single citizen is an important part of the community > b. < check his single judgments against a larger conception or in a perspective of the whole — Meyer Schapiro > < will try his single strength against all the world > 5. a. obsolete b. archaic < drank his single ale > 6. < every single minute I kept wishing — Agnes S. Turnbull > < the most important single resource — B.B.Jennings > < more than any other single influence of their period — American Guide Series: Texas > < the largest single agency providing assistance — Shlomo Katz > 7. a. < the willingness of the incumbent … to devote himself with a single mind to the public good — R.M.Dawson > < jealousy is the flaw in the single heart — Ellen Glasgow > < keep your eye single and your hands clean — Charles Kingsley > b. < lives with an eye single to his own advantage — New Republic > < everything in this line has been procured … with an eye single to the taste of his numerous patrons — D.D.Martin > 8. < science and speed have made our world into a single neighborhood — Barbara Ward > < the great cause was the same; the source of all the movements was elemental, natural, and single — J.L.Motley > 9. < who now defies thee thrice to single fight — John Milton > 10. < was that rare critic, perhaps even that unique and single critic — J.C.Ransom > < single among his fellows > 11. < his single speech, that of January 31, 1861, received high praise — W.C.Ford > < his single intent was to speak a word of sympathy — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < the single piece of evidence > 12. 13. < a single room > < a single house > Synonyms: < a single instance > < a single currency system > < Maine … is the only one adjoined by but a single sister state — American Guide Series: Maine > < the lover imagines but a single joy; to be master of his love in body and soul — George Santayana > sole may intensify the notion that what is under consideration is the only one < the sole lien to the estate > < the sole product of his factory > < invention is almost never the sole work of a single inventor — Lewis Mumford > < buy out his partners … and thus become sole stockholder — Current Biography > < the sole casualty of the battle … was one cow — R.W.Hatch > unique in reference to things like manuscripts and coins designates the only one extant; in other uses it indicates that which stands alone because of its unusual character < the manuscript of Beowulf is unique > < the unique character of the English conquest of Britain needs special emphasis — Kemp Malone > < a unique combination of warm and relatively sunny winters, and a summer without excessively high temperatures — E.L.Ullman > lone and solitary may suggest both single and isolated < who in cells deep and lone have languished — P.B.Shelley > < the ambitious Aaron Burr who played a lone hand against the field — V.L.Parrington > < the solitary sin of an otherwise blameless character > < a sentry kept solitary vigil — J.H.Cutler > separate stresses lack of connection with others; it indicates discreteness rather than singleness < there was no separate church, in our sense of the term, as an independent organism within the state — G.L.Dickinson > < given in two separate and distinct sections of the constitution — John Marshall > particular in this sense stresses the fact of being regarded as distinct < we shall venture beyond the particular book in search of qualities that group books together — Virginia Woolf > < some particular achievement of modern technology, like an electric shaver or the automobile — D.W.Brogan > II. 1. a. b. 2. a. < the guests arrive in singles and pairs > b. (1) < flashing a big bankroll, generally a wad of singles wrapped up in a hundred-dollar bill — Police Gazette > (2) < will release the sides both as singles and as an … LP record — Down Beat > (3) c. 3. singles plural 4. a. b. 5. a. b. 6. singles plural a. < we play singles or doubles > b. 7. 8. a. < offers to do singles on other shows and in some clubs — Newsweek > b. < started hiring out as a single at lodge dances — Time > 9. 10. < the apartment is a single > < small singles of five and six rooms — Brendon Shea > III. transitive verb 1. a. archaic b. < single out a young cow > 2. obsolete < I have singleed thee alone — Shakespeare > 3. a. < walks up to the line and singles every 10th man > — usually used with out < singles out for special praise the guidebook to Wells cathedral — Pyke Johnson > b. < something about his person that singled him out from the rest of the punctual moving crowd — E.V.Lucas > < had singled him out as his successor — John Buchan > < all I can do is to single out a few of the basic ideas — A.W.Hummel > 4. Britain 5. a. archaic b. 6. a. < singled him to third base > b. intransitive verb 1. archaic 2. 3. 4. < singled to center and knocked in two more runs — James Thurber > < singled behind his catcher — John Drebinger > IV. V. < a way of life for young singles — Norman Mailer > < a singles weekend > |
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