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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last of these, at Folkestone Court, in May, was remarkable for the cold-blooded pistoling of the page, who surprised the masked and solitary burglar.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had children, a husband and family, friends and relations; her household was busy and cheerful; she was surrounded by smiling faces; and then suddenly they are gone, and she is left alone like a solitary fly ... like a fly, cursed with the -burden of her age.
-- And, do you know, I all but went off to Paris, and should assuredly have shared his solitary exile with him; but, alas, our destinies were otherwise ordered!We parted, he to his island, where I am sure he thought of the weeping child who had embraced him so affectionately at parting in Moscow; and I was sent off to the cadet corps, where I found nothing but roughness and harsh discipline.
-- 'You are excitable, perhaps as the result of your solitary life.
-- Vera Lebe-deff's passive disagreement was limited to the shedding of a few solitary tears; to more frequent sitting alone at home, and to a diminished frequency in her visits to the prince's apartments.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last I saw of the chase was a little group of a dozen people perhaps, studying with infinite perplexity a slowly drying footprint that had resulted from a puddle in Tavistock Square, a footprint as isolated and incomprehensible to them as Crusoe's solitary discovery.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Farther under the star-board bulwark were some big hutches containing a number of rabbits, and a solitary llama was squeezed in a mere box of a cage forward.
-- The puma was resting to heal that day; but Moreau, who was singularly solitary in his habits, did not join us.
-- Had I kept my courage up to the level of the dawn, had I not allowed it to ebb away in solitary thought, I might have grasped the vacant sceptre of Moreau and ruled over the Beast People.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were white-tusked wild males, with fallen leaves and nuts and twigs lying in the wrinkles of their necks and the folds of their ears; fat, slow-footed she-elephants, with restless, little pinky black calves only three or four feet high running under their stomachs; young elephants with their tusks just beginning to show, and very proud of them; lanky, scraggy old-maid elephants, with their hollow anxious fac-es, and trunks like rough bark; savage old bull elephants, scarred from shoulder to flank with great weals and cuts of bygone fights, and the caked dirt of their solitary mud baths dropping from their shoulders; and there was one with a broken tusk and the marks of the full-stroke, the terrible drawing scrape, of a tiger's claws on his side.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His closely-shaved head, on which no other hair than the well-known and chival-rous scalping tuft* was preserved, was without ornament of any kind, with the exception of a solitary eagle's plume, that crossed his crown, and depended over the left shoulder.
-- As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular and solitary with the Indi-ans; though, for the honor of our common nature, neither are incapable of producing them.
-- Chingachgook, placing himself in a dignified posture on another fragment of the rock, had already laid aside his knife and tomahawk, and was in the act of taking the eagle's plume from his head, and smoothing the solitary tuft of hair in readiness to perform its last and revolting office.
-- Duncan caught from these natural accompani-ments of the solitary scene a glimmering of hope; and he began to rally his faculties to renewed exertions, with some-thing like a reviving confidence of success.
-- The conduct of this savage had formed a solitary excep-tion to that of all his fellows.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No land was in sight, not a solitary ship could be seen.
-- As to the coast, it was solitary also.
-- Not a group of huts, not a solitary cabin, not a fishery on the shore.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The spot was at Chelsea, for there Miss Sophia Wackles resided with her widowed mother and two sisters, in conjunction with whom she maintained a very small day-school for young ladies of proportionate dimensions; a circumstance which was made known to the neighbourhood by an oval board over the front first-floor windows, whereupon appeared in circumambient flourishes the words 'Ladies' Seminary'; and which was further published and proclaimed at intervals between the hours of half-past nine and ten in the morning, by a straggling and solitary young lady of tender years standing on the scraper on the tips of her toes and making futile attempts to reach the knocker with a spelling-book.
-- For, it was not the monotonous days unchequered by variety and uncheered by pleasant companionship, it was not the dark dreary evenings or the long solitary nights, it was not the absence of every slight and easy pleasure for which young hearts beat high, or the knowing nothing of childhood but its weakness and its easily wounded spirit, that had wrung such tears from Nell.
-- Climbing the eminence which lay between them and the spot they had left, the child could even discern the fluttering flags and white tops of booths; but no person was approaching towards them, and their resting-place was solitary and still.
-- They fancied, too, a lonely air about him and his house, but perhaps that was because the other people formed a merry company upon the green, and he seemed the only solitary man in all the place.
-- 'I am quite a solitary man now.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The warden complained and the inspector ordered Vasilieff placed in solitary confinement.
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