| 单词 | alone |
| 释义 | alone I. 1. a. < the girl, intently listening, was alone with her fear — G.D.Brown > — usually used predicatively or postpositively b. < alone except for his new gun and Ned, the setter — S.V.Benét > 2. a. < Jack alone arrived > < learning alone produces not a university but a research institute — J.B.Conant > b. < in that country alone 20 million bushels were produced > c. < a widow alone in the world > d. < alone in a crowded room > e. < he was not alone in his ignorance > 3. a. < Hercules stood alone in strength > b. < of all the suggestions advanced, this theory is altogether alone in its penetration of the problem > c. < that job alone will take all your time > Synonyms: < the captain of a ship at sea is a remote, inaccessible creature, something like a prince of a fairy tale, alone of his kind — Joseph Conrad > solitary may indicate a state of being apart that is desired and sought for < Netta loved these solitary interludes … she could dream things there and tell herself stories there, untroubled — J.C.Powys > It may lack connotation < being solitary he could only address himself to the waiter — Virginia Woolf > It may be used in indicating sadness at a lack of close intimate connections < an only child, he was left solitary by the early death of his mother, Susan Sturgis, whose loss he felt severely — J.F.Fulton > Sometimes lonely simply indicates the fact of being alone < he was lonely, but not in an unhappy sense … it was no hardship for him to be alone — H.S.Canby > Sometimes it indicates a sense of isolation, often from intimate relatives or friends < his grim look, his pride, his silence, his wild outbursts of passion, left William lonely even in his court — J.R.Green > It may apply to feelings of deep sorrow and bereavement < he felt more lonely and forsaken than at any time since his father's death — Archibald Marshall > lonesome, often more poignant, suggests sadness after a separation or bereavement < you must keep up your spirits, mother, and not be lonesome when I'm not at home — Charles Dickens > < her flight … yet smote my lonesome heart more than all misery — P.B.Shelley > lone may indicate the mere fact of being alone < in his lone course the shepherd oft will pause — William Wordsworth > It may indicate a lack of close relatives < the mother's dead and I reckon it's got no father; it's a lone thing — George Eliot > lorn, now humorous or literary, suggests recent separation or bereavement < when lorn lovers sit and droop — W.M.Praed > forlorn indicates dejection, woe, and listlessness at separation from someone dear < as forlorn and stupefied as I was when my husband's spirit flew away — Thomas Hardy > < as forlorn as King Lear at the end of his days — G.W.Johnson > desolate is most extreme in suggesting inconsolable grief at loss or bereavement < fatherless, a desolate orphan — S.T.Coleridge > < for her false mate has fled and left her desolate — P.B.Shelley > solitary, lonely, lonesome, and desolate are applied to places and locations more than the other words are. solitary may be applied either to that which is apart from things similar or to that which is uninhabited or unvisited by human beings < a solitary chamber, or rather a cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase — Mary W. Shelley > lonely may be applied to what is either far apart from things similar and seldom visited or to that which is inhabited by only one person or group and conducive to loneliness < heard not only in the towns but even in lonely farmhouses — Sherwood Anderson > lonesome has much the same suggestion. desolate indicates either that a place is abandoned by people or that it is so barren and wild as never to have attracted them < as if nothing had life by day, in that lifeless desolate spot — Anthony Trollope > II. < the proof does not rest alone on that statement > < he said he could do it alone > |
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