lone

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lone /ləʊn $ loʊn/ adjectiveadj [only before noun] → loan

1 ALONEused to talk about the only person or thing in a place, or the only person or thing that does something 孤零零的；单独的，独自的 SYN solitary

A lone figure was standing at the bus stop.

公交车站上站着一个孤单的身影。

He was by no means a lone voice criticizing the government.

批评政府的绝不止他一个人。

a lone gunman

独行持枪歹徒

the lone survivor of a shipwreck

一次海难的唯一幸存者

2 lone mother/father/parent etc British EnglishBrEONLY someone who looks after their children on their own 单身母亲/单身父亲/单亲等 SYN single

a lone-parent family

单亲家庭

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lone mother/father/parent etc• One Parent Benefit is paid to 75% of lone parents.• We can treat lone parents as poor people, needing means-tested social assistance of some sort - as we do now.• Two thirds of lone parent families depend mainly on social security benefits, compared with one in eight two parent families.• Sheila is a lone parent with two children, aged 13 and 15.• More than half of lone parents with two or more children had incomes below their absolute poverty level at £227 a week.

3. lone wolf someone who prefers to be alone 独行侠，独来独往的人

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lone wolf• I got the impression you're something of a lone wolf.• You know how he is - a lone wolf.• From far off where the Zoo lay the howl of a lone wolf wound up into the night.

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lone• This was the time when the lone and often despairing voice of dissent was heard from the terraces.• Out of the stillness, a lone bird began to sing.• Apparently, the murder of the lone black, Penn, was unworthy of note.• He suffered from post-traumatic stress because of a lone confrontation with eight youths two years earlier.• a lone figure in the snow• A lone gunman burst into his house and shot him dead.• For start-ups it was the lone inventor in a garage.• A lone naked bulb dangled from the ceiling.• Councilman Dexter cast the lone "no" vote.• Sheila is a lone parent with two children, aged 13 and 15.• Family graves may occasionally receive a visit by a lone person shouldering a glum aura.• It never bothered her before to be a lone voice.

lone figure• Suddenly, as if on cue, a lone figure appears on a horse.• But as I ploughed through the trough in the snow, a lone figure came weaving drunkenly towards me.• At last a lone figure staggered out, singing raucously as he swaggered in a drunken stupor.

Origin lone

(1300-1400) alone

lone adjectiveadj

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