| 释义 | 
		Definition of man alone in English: man alonenoun NZ A self-reliant, rugged male, particularly as a New Zealand stereotype.  he was an outsider, a man alone, living just where adventure begins  Example sentencesExamples -  He made the effort to suggest he is not a man alone.
 -  He is the key actor of his generation, through his incarnation of the dominant Pakeha cultural archetype, that of the "man alone."
 -  It's a portrait of a man alone.
 -  He is very much a man alone in this saga.
 -  With no car, little money, few possessions and the rural postal service as his means of communication, he was truly a man alone.
 -  His early poetry was apocalyptic, a man alone talking to his god about the creation of the world.
 -  These two books consider the man alone theme, albeit in radically different ways.
 -  I guess this will also add to the 'man alone' image of New Zealand cinema.
 -  Besides, he adds, "there is nothing better than a man alone who can live with himself".
 -  Ruth is a complex kind of "man alone" figure - her solitude is vulnerable rather than romantic.
 
 
 Origin   1980s: from the novel Man Alone (1939) by John Mulgan.     |