英语词汇“alone”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

alone

(əloʊn )

1. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] A2

When you are alone, you are not with any other people.

There is nothing so frightening as to be alone in a combat situation.

He was all alone in the middle of the hall.

Synonyms: solitary, isolated, sole, separate

Alone is also an adverb.

She has lived alone in this house for almost five years now.

He was sitting alone at a table reading a newspaper.

2. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] A2

If one person is alone with another person, or if two or more people are alone, they are together, without anyone else present.

I couldn't imagine why he would want to be alone with me. [+ with]

My brother and I were alone with Vincent. [+ with]

3. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] A2

If you say that you are alone or feel alone, you mean that nobody who is with you, or nobody at all, cares about you.

Never in her life had she felt so alone, so abandoned.

He found himself alone in a hostile world.

Synonyms: lonely, abandoned, deserted, isolated

4. adverb [noun ADVERB]

You say that one person or thing alone does something when you are emphasizing that only one person or thing is involved. [emphasis]

You alone should determine what is right for you.

They were convicted on forensic evidence alone.

Synonyms: solely, only, individually, singly

5. adverb [noun ADVERB]

If you say that one person or thing alone is responsible for part of an amount, you are emphasizing the size of that part and the size of the total amount. [emphasis]

The BBC alone is sending 300 technicians, directors and commentators.

Megastars like Jack Nicholson, who made £50 million from Batman alone, are unlikely to be affected.

6. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] B2

If someone is alone in doing something, they are the only person doing it, and so are different from other people.

If you sometimes feel pain at the front of your shins after running, you are far from alone.

Am I alone in thinking that this scandal should finish his career? [+ in]

Alone is also an adverb.

Alone among the great Victorian novelists, Hardy lived long enough to see his work adapted for the screen.

I alone was sane, I thought, in a world of crazy people.

7. adverb [ADVERB after verb] A2

When someone does something alone, they do it without help from other people.

Bringing up a child alone should give you a sense of achievement.

He was working alone and did not have an accomplice.

Synonyms: by yourself, independently, unaided, unaccompanied

8. go it alone phrase

If you go it alone, you do something without any help from other people. [informal]

I missed the stimulation of working with others when I tried to go it alone.

9. to leave someone or something alone phrase B2

If you leave someone or something alone, or if you leave them be, you do not pay them any attention or bother them.

Some people need to confront a traumatic past; others find it better to leave it alone.

Why can't you leave him be?

10. let alone phrase

Let alone is used after a statement, usually a negative one, to indicate that the statement is even more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next. [emphasis]

It is incredible that the 12-year-old managed to even reach the pedals, let alone drive the car.

Quotations:

I want to be aloneGreta GarboGrand Hotel (film)

Collocations:

completely alone

I felt elated, saturated by love but somehow completely alone.

Times, Sunday Times

Stroll 100 yards off the main trails and you can be completely alone.

Times, Sunday Times

In the winter, when she's snowed in, she's completely alone.

Times,Sunday Times

We were completely alone, descending gently along a well-marked path through glorious rainforest in virtual silence.

The Sun

One afternoon, we kayak across an aquamarine lagoon, completely alone, soaking up the silence.

Times,Sunday Times

dine alone

A lifelong bachelor, he threw dinner parties rather than dine alone.

Smithsonian Mag (2017)

He would ask the concierge to dinner rather than dine alone.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

He walked all the way home very dismally, and dined alone with Briggs.

William Thackeray Vanity Fair (1837)

eat alone

People stare at you when you eat alone or — worse — insist that you eat with them.

Times, Sunday Times

I would eat things on my plate in a certain order and prefer to eat alone.

The Sun

And more eat alone, as family mealtimes gradually disappear.

The Sun

I cannot sit at home and eat alone.

Times, Sunday Times

Sources say he ended up ordering a seafood banquet to his yacht so that he could eat alone.

The Sun

live alone

In his next film (the title of which he cannot disclose) he plays 'a fire watcher, a man living alone in the woods'.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

I have never lived alone, just been a sort of serial leapfrog monogamist who has finally come to rest.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

Was she too cloistered in that museum of a mill, living alone with her mother among all their memories and memorabilia?

Stewart, Michael GRACE (1989)

High housing costs have also led to a decrease in the number of younger people being able to afford to live alone.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

Many live alone and tend to pay less attention to food.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

sit alone

Once during an air raid she noticed a young man sitting alone in the shelter reading a book.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

She found her own way to the student canteen, where she sat alone with a cheap coffee, but even nastier than on British Rail.

Robert Wilson THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS (2002)

They wouldn't have wanted to sit alone out there beside the filing cabinet, either.

Babson, Marian DEATH IN FASHION

In the corner, one youth sat alone, softly strumming a gittern.

Penman, Sharon HERE BE DRAGONS

Too many British on-screen personnel sit alone at some design masterpiece of a desk in the middle of a set the size of an aircraft hangar.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

travel alone

Workers will have to watch training videos and travel alone by car.

Times,Sunday Times

And there will be more options for people who travel alone.

The Sun

Anyone who attempts to travel alone faces prosecution.

Times,Sunday Times

Most of its clients are aged between 45 and 75, and half travel alone.

Times, Sunday Times

Travel alone and you travel without all the hassles and compromises attendant on travelling with others.

Times, Sunday Times

walk alone

Here was a man walking alone, purposefully, down a long dusty road.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

He generally walked alone with rapid short steps and a slight limp, as if he had one leg slightly shorter than the other.

John Cornwell Seminary Boy (2006)

The midwives worked fearlessly in some of the toughest areas of London, walking alone through unlit streets in places where policemen patrolled in pairs.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

Peter was well ahead of them, walking alone, his head down, his calculations and reactions, as always, unknowable.

Smiley, Jane BARN BLIND (1994)

He died in a climbing accident, after he had gone walking alone and the weather changed abruptly.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

wander alone

The word spread among cowboys and came to apply to unbranded calves found wandering alone.