solitary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 独居的, 孤独的, 惟一的; 荒凉的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge!a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; se-cret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
-- One Christmas time, when yonder solitary child was left here all alone, he did come, for the first time, just like that.
-- Built upon a dismal reef of sunken rocks, some league or so from shore, on which the waters chafed and dashed, the wild year through, there stood a solitary lighthouse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were solitary patches of road on the way between Soho and Clerkenwell, and Mr. Lorry, mindful of foot-pads, always retained Jerry for this service: though it was usually performed a good two hours earlier.
-- Such homes had these various notabilities left behind them in the fine world of Paris, that the spies among the assembled devotees of Monseigneur forming a goodly half of the polite compa-ny would have found it hard to discover among the angels of that sphere one solitary wife, who, in her manners and appearance, owned to being a Mother.
-- Many a night he vaguely and unhappily wandered there, when wine had brought no transitory glad-ness to him; many a dreary daybreak revealed his solitary figure lingering there, and still lingering there when the first beams of the sun brought into strong relief, removed beau-ties of architecture in spires of churches and lofty buildings, as perhaps the quiet time brought some sense of better things, else forgotten and unattainable, into his mind.
-- Mr. Crunch-er beguiled the earlier watches of the night with solitary pipes, and did not start upon his excursion until nearly one o'clock.
-- 'I stand aside, messieurs, by my heap of stones, to see the soldiers and their prisoner pass (for it is a solitary road, that, where any spectacle is well worth looking at), and at first, as they approach, I see no more than that they are six soldiers with a tall man bound, and that they are almost black to my sight except on the side of the sun going to bed, where they have a red edge, messieurs.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One solitary tower only, and some remains of a wall, show where the cas-tle once stood.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was her solitary refuge from the household cares which crowded upon her directly she went out from it.
-- And little groups and solitary figures among the public began running from place to place to get a better view.
-- Chapter 17 Unconsciously going over in his memory the conversations that had taken place during and after dinner, Alexey Alexandrovitch returned to his solitary room.
-- The whole day I have had to be making arrangements, arrangements about household matters arising" (he emphasized the word arising) "from my new, solitary position.
-- she said, when they had at last reached a solitary garden seat at a turn in the lime tree avenue.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mysterious habits of Phileas Fogg were recalled; his solitary ways, his sudden departure; and it seemed clear that, in undertaking a tour round the world on the pretext of a wager, he had had no other end in view than to elude the detectives, and throw them off his track.
-- He continued to pump poor Passepartout, and learned that he really knew little or nothing of his master, who lived a solitary existence in London, was said to be rich, though no one knew whence came his riches, and was mysterious and impenetrable in his affairs and habits.
-- His pocket was empty; he had not a solitary shilling, not so much as a penny.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin had prized the independence of his solitary room.
-- On the solitary and nervous occasion when Martin had worn evening clothes he had rented them from the Varsity Pantorium, but he must own them, now that he was going to introduce Leora to the world as his pride and flowering.
-- Sunset was a surf of crimson, and by night, when he stepped from the choking railroad coach and tramped the platform at Sauk Centre, he drank the icy air and looked up to the vast and solitary winter stars.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would it not be better to go somewhere far off, to the Is-lands again, and there hide the things in some solitary place, in a wood or under a bush, and mark the spot perhaps?'
-- At times, finding himself in a solitary and remote part of the town, in some wretched eating-house, sitting alone lost in thought, hardly knowing how he had come there, he suddenly thought of Svidriga脙炉lov.
-- Here's 芒聙娄 how shall I tell you? A theory of a sort, the same one by which I for instance consider that a single misdeed is permissible if the principal aim is right, a solitary wrongdoing and hun-dreds of good deeds!It's galling too, of course, for a young man of gifts and overweening pride to know that if he had, for instance, a paltry three thousand, his whole career, his whole future would be differently shaped and yet not to have that three thousand.
-- How should a girl have come alone to visit a solitary man in his lodgings?
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