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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the banks of a broad solitary river stands a Stown, one of the administrative centres of Russia; in the town there is a fortress, in the fortress there is a prison.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether sea-goingpeople were short of money about that time, or were short of faithand preferred cork jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that therewas but one solitary bidding, and that was from an attorneyconnected with the bill-broking business, who offered two poundsin cash, and the balance in sherry, but declined to be guaranteedfrom drowning on any higher bargain.
-- More solitary than Robinson Crusoe, who had nobody to look athim, and see that he was solitary, I went into the booking-office,and, by invitation of the clerk on duty, passed behind the counter,and sat down on the scale at which they weighed the luggage.
-- I believed, from the solitary and thoughtful way in which mymother murmured her song, that she was alone.
-- I fell at once into a solitary condition,-apart from all friendly notice, apart from the society of all otherboys of my own age, apart from all companionship but my ownspiritless thoughts,- which seems to cast its gloom upon this paperas I write.
-- I wondersometimes, when I think of it, what they would have done if I hadbeen taken with an illness; whether I should have lain down in mylonely room, and languished through it in my usual solitary way,or whether anybody would have helped me out.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then there was such comfort in the very easy distance of Randalls from Hartfield, so conve-nient for even solitary female walking, and in Mr. Weston's disposition and circumstances, which would make the ap-proaching season no hindrance to their spending half the evenings in the week together.
-- The bare possibility of it acted as a farther irritation on her spirits; and her being left in solitary grandeur, even sup-posing the omission to be intended as a compliment, was but poor comfort.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Genteel strangers, whose god was their town, who might happen to be compelled to linger about this nook for a day, heard the sound of light wheels, and prayed to see good society, to the degree of a solitary lord, or squire at the very least, but it was only Mr. Boldwood going out for the day.
-- RAIN ONE SOLITARY MEETS ANOTHERIt was now five o'clock, and the dawn was promising to break in hues of drab and ash.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I alighted and was conducted to my solitary apart-ment to spend the evening as I pleased.
-- In a solitary chamber, or rath-er cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my work-shop of filthy creation; my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment.
-- I determined to go without a guide, for I was well acquainted with the path, and the presence of an-other would destroy the solitary grandeur of the scene.
-- If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
-- Satan had his com-panions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through all my punishments, disgraces, fasts, and vigils, and other penitential performances, I had nursed this assurance; and to my communing so much with it, in a solitary and unprotected way, I in great part refer the fact that I was morally timid and very sensitive.
-- "I am not acquainted with this country, gentlemen, but it seems a solitary country towards the river."
-- When I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men's and women's faces wos like, I see yourn.
-- Out of such remembrances I brought into the light of the fire a half-formed terror that it might not be safe to be shut up there with him in the dead of the wild solitary night.
-- The influences of his solitary hut-life were upon him besides, and gave him a savage air that no dress could tame; added to these were the influences of his subsequent branded life among men, and, crowning all, his consciousness that he was dodging and hiding now.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 143 I cannot tell whether I were more pleased or mortified to observe, in those solitary walks, that the smaller birds did not appear to be at all afraid of me, but would hop about within a yard's distance, looking for worms and other food, with as much indifference and security as if no creature at all were near them.
-- He said, 'it was altogether impossible to find such a solitary island as I desired to live in; but I might command in my own house, and pass my time in a manner as recluse as I pleased.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.
-- Louisa asked these questions with a strong, wild, wandering interest peculiar to her; an interest gone astray like a banished creature, and hiding in solitary places.
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