ALONEif one person does something single-handedly, they do it without help from anyone else 独力地,单独地SYN alone
She brought up three children single-handedly.
她独自一人把三个孩子抚养成人。
—single-handedadjectiveadj [only before noun]
a single-handed voyage across the Atlantic
只身横渡大西洋的航行
Examples from the Corpus
single-handedly• But it is doubtful whether, if elected, he could single-handedly change the timetable at such a late stage.• Nader almost single-handedly changed the public's opinion of the big car companies.• Preston shrugged, as one did who had just single-handedlydispatched a Beast who Rode the Underground.• It was then left in the hands of head gardenerKen Vaughn, who ran it single-handedly for 30 years.• But the massmedia do not single-handedly give shape to the contours of the political system.• Only the female can guarantee her parenthood, and to her descends the task of single-handedlyrearing the young.• If I am ferretingsingle-handedly there is no need for any other diggingimplement.• He had single-handedly turned the Swan from a down-at-heelspit and gobsaloon to a down-at-heel success.• Do we think we have to win all battlessingle-handedly when we know you have already won the war?