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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the Terra del Fuego side, a few wretched-looking creatures were wandering about on the rocks, but on the other side not a solitary inhabitant was visible.
-- The country still presented the same fertile aspect, and abounded in flowers, but animals of any sort only came in sight occasionally, and there were no birds visible, except a solitary heron or owl, and a thrush or grebe, flying from the falcon.
-- "Of course; and if it will give you the slightest pleasure—"His companions had hardly time to thank him for his obliging good nature, when distant and prolonged howls broke on their ear, plainly not proceeding from one or two solitary animals, but from a whole troop, and one, moreover, that was rapidly approaching.
-- To a solitary individual, a little troop of eight men, all mounted and well armed, wore a suspicious aspect, so that any intercourse either with honest men or even banditti, was almost impossible.
-- replied Thalcave, pointing with his finger to a species of gigantic walnut-tree, which raised its solitary head above the waters.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found the black tor upon which I had seen the solitary watcher, and from its craggy summit I looked out myself across the melancholy downs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER III RELATES HOW OLIVER TWIST WAS VERY NEAR GETTING A PLACE WHICH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A SINECURE For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room to which he h ad been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board.
-- Let it not be supposed by the enemies of 'the system,' that, during the period of his solitary incarceration, Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation.
-- He was about to throw himself on the ground, and make one struggle for his young life, when he saw that they stood before a solitary house: all ruinous and decayed.
-- With these words, the matron dropped into her chair, and, once more resting her elbow on the table, thought of her solitary fate.
-- He passed a great many public-houses; but, at length paused before one in a by-way, whose parlour, as he gathered from a hasty peep over the blinds, was deserted, save by one solitary customer.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He never said a great deal, nor did she give herself the trouble of talking or of listening much; but it struck her in the course of their third rencontre that he was asking some odd unconnect-ed questions about her pleasure in being at Hunsford, her love of solitary walks, and her opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Col-lins's happiness; and that in speaking of Rosings and her not perfectly understanding the house, he seemed to expect that whenever she came into Kent again she would be stay-ing THERE too.
-- Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a soli-tary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.
-- 'I am afraid I interrupt your solitary ramble, my dear sis-ter?'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But how just has it been - and how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present condi-tions with others that are worse, Heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felic-ity by their experience - I say, how just has it been, that the truly solitary life I reflected on, in an island of mere desola-tion, should be my lot, who had so often unjustly compared it with the life which I then led, in which, had I continued, I had in all probability been exceeding prosperous and rich.
-- As for my solitary life, it was nothing.
-- The rainy season of the autumnal equinox was now come, and I kept the 30th of September in the same solemn manner as before, being the anniversary of my landing on the island, having now been there two years, and no more prospect of being delivered than the first day I came there, I spent the whole day in humble and thankful acknowledg-ments of the many wonderful mercies which my solitary condition was attended with, and without which it might have been infinitely more miserable.
-- I gave humble and hearty thanks that God had been pleased to discover to me that it was possible I might be more happy in this solitary condition than I should have been in the liberty of society, and in all the pleasures of the world; that He could fully make up to me the deficiencies of my solitary state, and the want of human society, by His presence and the commu-nications of His grace to my soul; supporting, comforting, and encouraging me to depend upon His providence here, and hope for His eternal presence hereafter.
-- From this moment I began to conclude in my mind that it was possible for me to be more happy in this forsaken, solitary condition than it was probable I should ever have been in any other particular state in the world; and with this thought I was going to give thanks to God for bring-ing me to this place.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such violence of affliction indeed could not be supported for ever; it sunk within a few days into a calmer melancholy; but these employments, to which she daily recurred, her solitary walks and silent meditations, still produced occasional effusions of sorrow as lively as ever.
-- In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony to be at Cleveland; and as she returned by a different circuit to the house, feeling all the happy privilege of country liberty, of wandering from place to place in free and luxurious solitude, she resolved to spend almost every hour of every day while she remained with the Palmers, in the indulgence of such solitary rambles.
-- Mrs. Dashwood and Elinor then followed, and the others were left by themselves, to talk of the travellers, and feel their own dullness, till Mrs. Jennings was summoned to her chaise to take comfort in the gossip of her maid for the loss of her two young companions; and Colonel Brandon immediately afterwards took his solitary way to Delaford.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The city had laid miles and miles of streets and sewers through regions where, perhaps, one solitary house stood out alone--a pioneer of the populous ways to be.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here a lonely heart broke, and a worn spirit went to its rest, after thirty-seven years of solitary captivity.
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