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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The 6th of July, about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Abraham Lincoln, at fifteen miles to the south, doubled the solitary island, this lost rock at the extremity of the American continent, to which some Dutch sailors gave the name of their native town, Cape Horn.
-- About ten miles south a solitary island rose to a height of one hundred and four yards.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shortlands looked across a sloping meadow that might be a park, because of the large, solitary trees that stood here and there, across the water of the narrow lake, at the wooded hill that successfully hid the colliery valley beyond, but did not quite hide the rising smoke.
-- It was as if they met in exile, and united their solitary forces against all the world.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have just returned from a visit to my landlord the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These cells for solitary confinement were dark closets iron-bolted from the outside.
-- And she opened the door of a tiny cell, evidently intended for solitary confinement, and now at the disposal of the political prisoners.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For countless years I judged there had been no danger of war or solitary violence, no danger from wild beasts, no wasting disease to require strength of constitution, no need of toil.
-- Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white, ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill, and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body.
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