solo

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solo2 adjectiveadj [only before noun]

1 ALONEdone alone without anyone else helping you 独自的，单独的

solo flight/voyage/ascent

Ridgeway’s solo voyage across the Atlantic

里奇韦独自横渡大西洋的航行

the first solo ascent of Everest

首次单独登上珠穆朗玛峰

a solo effort

独自的努力

2 APMrelating to a record or piece of music that is performed by a single musician, not a group 独奏的；独唱的

a solo album

独唱专辑

a solo passage for viola

中提琴的独奏段落

—solo adverbadv

When did you first fly solo?

你第一次单独飞行是什么时候？

Amos quit the company, determined to go solo (=work for himself).

阿莫斯离开了公司，决定自己干。

Examples from the Corpus

solo• Computer bridge programs will let you play solo.• Winans released her solo album at age 31.• And I really do dread Morrissey's solo career, once they have split.• Matt now lives in Los Angeles, where he is trying to launch a solo career.• The final ethereal prayer and solo duet were beautifully sung.• LeRoy took his first solo flight that weekend.• The result is that we encounter unsuspected shades of gray, with solo flute and bassoon weaving ironic commentaries.• Trevor McDonald was made solo frontman.• A musical prodigy, he played solo recitals by age 12.• Albert wants to take a solo sailing trip around the world.• However, U2 will have sorely disappointed fans who rely on the music press as their solo source of information.• What local people are listening to is not solo throat-singers, but tradition-based pop or tradition-based rock.

solo effort• Eventually, Murphy ran at the Otters defence and scored the equaliser with a brilliant solo effort.• Though supported by the Cheltenham Group, this is an entirely solo effort, and all types of subject are covered.

go solo• Gary says: I was the first person to go solo.• There Charles went solo again, unveiling a plaque - which bore both their names - as Diana stood meekly behind him.• After an inauspicious début as part of a band, Amos went solo and relocated to London.• Tucson glassmaker Alfredo Rivera goes solo at Davis Dominguez.• That Hayes got his chance to go solo during this hectic period was obviously good.• But since Osbourne went solo in 1980, a variety of hotshots have taken the guitar spot.• Long before going solo the student should have learned the mnemonic by heart.• Then she and Jimmy sang the song together, Jimmy going solo when required and she likewise.

solo3 verb [intransitiveI]

1 to perform a solo in a piece of music 独奏；独唱

Brokaw solos brilliantly on this album.

布罗考在这张专辑中的独唱非常出色。

2. to fly an aircraft alone 单独飞行，单飞

Examples from the Corpus

solo• Then, Williams received uproarious acclaim for a leaping celebration as spectacular as a Sadler's Wells solo.• We waited expectantly for the first of our classmates to solo.• In 1990 - the period covered - only one climber was killed following a slip soloing a mixed climb.• She had never soloed, but when she finished, she took the Canuck up for a trial spin.• Use this scale when soloing over a blues, over a m7 chord or over a dominant chord.

Origin solo2

(1600-1700) Italian solo “alone”, from Latin solus; → SOLE1