solitude• He spent his free time in solitude, reading or walking in the hills.• Kitty stood against the back wall, stony, her face blotchy from tearswept in solitude.• How strange to emerge from my solitude.• I need solitude in order to paint my pictures.• We have in prospect eight months of solitude, clinging to the edge of the world's coldest, remotestcontinent.• Ella loved the quietsolitude of her weekends.• It was the solitude growing around me, growing under me: this I couldn't take.• Nor did he enjoy the mass, the open aggression of it, being so used to solitude, to hiddendeceits.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + SOLITUDE | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤absolute, total與世隔絕➤quiet獨處的清靜VERB + SOLITUDE➤seek尋求獨處➤find找到獨處的機會➤enjoy, prefer享受/喜歡獨處◇He enjoys the solitude of writing.他享受獨自寫作的日子。PREPOSITION➤in solitude獨自地◇to pray in solitude獨自祈禱➤in the solitude of獨自待在⋯◇She enjoyed a few days of peace in the solitude of the mountains.她在山裏享受了幾天獨處的清靜。