single

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英[?s??ɡl]
美[?s??ɡl]

基本釋義

adj.
單一的; 未婚的; 單程的
n.
單程票; 單人間; 單身者
v.
選出

詞性變化

實用例句

(British English)a single honours degree (= for which you study only one subject)

單科榮譽學(xué)位

牛津詞典

He sent her a single red rose.

他送給她一支紅玫瑰。

牛津詞典

a single-sex school (= for boys only or for girls only)

男子(或女子)學(xué)校

牛津詞典

All these jobs can now be done by one single machine.

所有這些工作現(xiàn)在只用一臺機器就可以完成。

牛津詞典

I couldn't understand a single word she said!

她講的東西我一個字都聽不懂!

牛津詞典

the European single currency , the euro

歐洲單一貨幣歐元

牛津詞典

Unemployment is the single most important factor in the growing crime rates.

失業(yè)是犯罪率日益上升最重要的一個因素。

牛津詞典

We eat rice every single day .

我們天天吃米飯。

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The apartments are ideal for single people living alone.

這些公寓供單身者獨自居住最為理想。

牛津詞典

Are you still single?

你還是單身嗎?

牛津詞典

a single bed/room

單人床 / 房間

牛津詞典

a single ticket

單程票

牛津詞典

How much is the single fare to Glasgow?

去格拉斯哥的單程票多少錢?

牛津詞典

How much is a single to York?

去約克的單程票多少錢?

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The band releases its new single next week.

這支樂隊將于下周發(fā)行新的單曲唱片。

牛津詞典

They organize parties for singles.

他們?yōu)閱紊碚呓M織聚會。

牛津詞典

a singles bar/club

單身酒吧 / 俱樂部

牛津詞典

the women's singles champion

女子單打冠軍

牛津詞典

A single shot rang out...

傳來一聲響亮的槍聲。

Over six hundred people were wounded in a single day...

僅一天中就有 600 多人受傷。

Every single house in town had been damaged...

鎮(zhèn)上每棟房子都遭到了破壞。

The Middle East is the world's single most important source of oil.

中東是世界上最為重要的一個產(chǎn)油地。

Is it difficult being a single mother?...

做單身媽媽難嗎?

I now have to face the rest of my life as a single person...

我現(xiàn)在不得不孤單一人度過余生。

A single room at the Astir Hotel costs £56 a night.

阿斯蒂爾酒店的單人間價格是 56 英鎊一晚。

The price of a single ticket is thirty-nine pounds.

單程票的價格是 39 英鎊。

Kids today don't buy singles...

現(xiàn)在的孩子都不買單曲唱片了。

The winners will get a chance to release their own single.

獲勝者將有機會發(fā)行自己的單曲唱片。

Boris Becker of Germany won the men's singles...

德國的鮑里斯·貝克爾贏得男單冠軍。

She is equally at home on the singles or doubles court.

她單打和雙打都能得心應(yīng)手。

真題例句

They suggest this indicates that dogs aren’t sensing emotions from a single feature, but piecing together information from all facial features just as humans do.

出自-2017年6月聽力原文

They're also only a single layer in what should ideally be a many-sided approach to securing your home, one that includes common sense things like sound locks and proper exterior lighting at night.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

There is no single easy quick solution to the problem.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

SimpliSafe was singled out in one recent article on jamming, complete with a video showing the entire system being effectively bypassed with handheld jamming equipment.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page: Flawless.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Dr.Ben Carson grew up in a poor single-parent household in Detroit.

出自-2015年12月聽力原文

They needn't pay a single cent for their power consumption on sunny days.

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

high schools was made this year, as in years past, according to a single metric, the proportion of students taking college-level exams.

出自-2012年6月閱讀原文

And study after study finds that a garden is the single most important thing in finding that quality.

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

No single online activity is to blame for excessive use, he said.

出自-2010年6月閱讀原文

There are now growing numbers of people who live alone, single parents and children, and double-income families

出自-2012年12月聽力原文

As much as I enjoy my own company, I no longer imagine I can get through a single day much less all my life completely on my own.

出自-2011年12月聽力原文

I for one try not to miss a single weekly meeting of my knitting group.

2017年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

It is impossible that a single shot of education, administered in childhood and early adulthood, will be able to support a sustained, 60-year career.

2019年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

It is impossible that a single shot of education, administered in childhood and early adulthood,will be able to support a sustained, 60-year career.

2019年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

It takes many hours to craft a single sign.

2018年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

millions of people travel by plane every single day.

2019年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A

Not really, because the police don't have time to police every single driver.

2016年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section B

Some 14% of young adults lived alone, were a single parent or lived with one or more roommates.

2019年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

This is mainly because women are more likely than men to be single parents living with their children.

2019年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

And on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word environment has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impossible.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

The video camera that one single mother bought for a special occasion, for example, is not much fun now.

出自-2016年12月聽力原文

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Prevalence of single mothers 3.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

These are likely to have more resources andmore knowledge about all aspects of advertising and advertising media than single company.

出自-2015年12月聽力原文

Amid the current concerns about the federal deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxury—as if saving one-thousandth of a single year's budget would solve our problems.

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

In the modem industrialised agricultural process—which developing nations are moving towards in order to increase future yields—energy usage in the making and application of fertilisers and pesticides represents the single biggest component

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

But he hasn't gone through a single meeting, has he?

出自-2014年6月聽力原文

For example, in 1909 anyone who wanted to make a single copy of a literary work for personal use had to do so by hand

出自-2014年6月聽力原文

The origins, though not the cause of Ebola-Sudan, can be traced back to a single individual in a Sudanese town.

出自-2013年6月聽力原文

Andrea, Rick and Zac stayed in the basement department, sharing laundry and single bathroom with Michael, his wife and their two children.

出自-2012年12月聽力原文

As much as I enjoy my own company, I no longer imagine I can get through a single day much less all my life completely on my own.

出自-2011年12月聽力原文

He said not a single word during the entire flight.

出自-2011年6月聽力原文

"In America there are large ants which can eat whole trees bare as a broom handle in a single night,"she wrote in the description.

2018年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

"It's a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue," said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who's a member of the union's negotiating committee. "This is an important aspect of what it means to be freelance (從事自由職業(yè)的) perfor

2019年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

2017年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

Although many of the churches appear from the outside to be complex structures, they normally feature only a single storey but numerous different roof levels.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

And on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word" environment" has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impos

2016年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

And they were more likely to have a criminal record and to be raising a child as a single parent on a very low income.

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 熱衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl

2017年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

And yet, not a single interviewer has ever asked me about my educational background.

2018年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

Apple argues that it is fighting to preserve a principle that most of us who are addicted to our smartphones can defend: Weaken a single iPhone so that its contents can be viewed by the American government and you risk weakening all iPhones for any govern

2017年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

By 2008, the figure had fallen into the single 33 digits.

2016年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A

Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the "single strongest correlate of

2015年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

Jerry is single and has no dependence.

2017年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Manufacturing companies on average rely on more than 35 contract suppliers around the world to create a single product.

2015年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

On Jan 9, 2007, Steve Jobs formally announced Apple's "revolutionary mobile phone"—a device that combined the functionality of an iPod, phone and Internet communication into a single unit, navigated by touch.

2018年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

She was the first to bring together insects and their habitats, including food they ate, into a single ecological composition.

2018年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

The most common CubeSat is a 10cm cube, so small that a single CubeSat could easily be mistaken for a paperweight on your desk.

2019年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

The robots have provided major benefits to farmers in various ways, from hunting and pulling weeds monitoring the condition of every single fruit.

2018年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

This is an important aspect of what it means to be freelance (從事自由職業(yè)的) performer, who isn't regularly employed every single day working on projects.

2019年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

Turning every single word into the target language would put too much strain on the interpreter and slow down the whole process too much.

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

Whereas some of the low-self-control study members are more likely to be single parents with a very low income and the parent is in poor health and likely to be a heavy substance abuser.

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

At first the price of single copies was seldom a penny-usually two or three cents was charged-and some of the older well-known papers charged five or six cents.

2019年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Experts say Paris is right: for a sudden heart failure, the single best chance for survival is having someone nearby step in and do CPR quickly.

2017年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

From that day on, Cathy kept swimming and didn't miss a single practice.

2016年高考英語天津卷 完形填空 原文

It had been possiblebut not easyto buy single copies of newspapers before 1830, but this usually meant the reader had to go down to the printer's office to purchase a copy.

2019年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

It meant any inexpensive newspaper; perhaps more importantly it meant newspapers that could be bought in single copies on the street.

2019年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

My little experiment to find joy in a single object worked for both of us.

2018年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Not a single day has been wasted, though I can never tell when knowing the population of Nepal might prove useful.

2015年高考英語福建卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Ok, single room or double room?

2015年高考英語湖北卷 聽力 原文

On every single move you have to analyze a situation, process what your opponent is doing and evaluate the best move from among all your options.

2018年高考英語全國卷I 完形填空 原文

So if we send out a robot with the single instruction of fetching coffee, it will have a strong desire to secure success by disabling its own off switch or even killing anyone who might interfere with its task.

2017年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Sorry, we have no rooms like that now, but we have a room with a single bed.

2016年高考英語北京卷 聽力 原文

The workshops all take the same form, focusing on a single play as a kind of case study, and using individual scenes as specific lessons.

2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

There are over 50 students in the course, and every single one wants the book.

2017年高考英語全國卷2 聽力 原文

These are volcanoes so explosive that they burst open in a single big crack, leaving behind a vast hole, the caldera.

2019年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

When a predator always eats huge numbers of a single prey, the two species are strongly linked; when a predator lives on various species, they are weakly linked.

2019年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father’s line or mitochondrial DNA, which a passed down only from mothers.

出自-2009年考研閱讀原文

Other anthropologists believed that cultural innovations, such as inventions, had a single origin and passed from society to society.

出自-2009年考研閱讀原文

Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

There are also stories about newly adoptive – and newly single – mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

Says Korn/Ferry senior partner Dennis Carey:”I can’t think of a single search I’ve done where a board has not instructed me to look at sitting CEOs first.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

出自-2011年考研閱讀原文

Newton’s laws of motion and Darwinian evolution each bind a host of different phenomena into a single explicatory frame work.

出自-2012年考研翻譯原文

In physics, one approach takes this impulse for unification to its extreme, and seeks a theory of everything-a single generative equation for all we see.

出自-2012年考研翻譯原文

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

出自-2012年考研閱讀原文

Surveys can cover a single large settlement or entire landscapes.

出自-2014年考研閱讀原文

A typical work, such as Seven Days, consists of a single beautiful black-and-white photograph taken on an epic walk, with the mileage and number of days taken listed beneath.

2014年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

All but two pieces sold, fetching more than £70m, a record for a sale by a single artist.

2010年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

As well as those chronic problems, the EU face an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

At its best, the European project is remarkably liberal: built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries, its internal borders are far more open to goods, capital and labour than any comparable trading area.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Google and microsoft are among companies that already have these "single sign-on" systems that make it possible for users to log in just once but use many different services.

2011年考研真題(英語二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

However, even though it's common, it's important to keep in mind that in a single moment of fatigue, you can say something to your child that you may regret for a long time.

2020年考研真題(英語二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

In choosing a new home, Camille McClain's kids have single demand: a backyard.

2019年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Markets have lost faith that the euro zone's economies, weaker or stronger, will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency, which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like US Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock.

2011年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

2012年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the?past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium—television—and television is defined by downloading.

2012年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

There are also stories about newly adoptive – and newly single – mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual "Jennifer Aniston is pregnant" news.

2011年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Today's farm laborers, while still predominantly born in Mexico, are more likely to be settled rather than migrating and more likely to be married than single.

2019年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the

2011年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Until now, many sellers that have a physical presence in only a single state or a few states have been able to avoid charging sales taxes when they ship to addresses outside those states.

2020年考研真題(英語一)翻譯 Section Ⅲ

Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father's line or mitochondrial DNA, which is a passed down only from mothers.

2009年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Yet the debate about how to save Europe's single currency from disintegration is stuck.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base

  • 2. the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number;

    "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"

    "they had lunch at one"

Verb
  • 1. hit a one-base hit

Adjective
  • 1. existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual;

    "upon the hill stood a single tower"

    "had but a single thought which was to escape"

    "a single survivor"

    "a single serving"

    "a single lens"

    "a single thickness"

  • 2. used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals;

    "single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals"

  • 3. not married or related to the unmarried state;

    "unmarried men and women"

    "unmarried life"

    "sex and the single girl"

    "single parenthood"

    "are you married or single?"

  • 4. characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing;

    "an individual serving"

    "separate rooms"

    "single occupancy"

    "a single bed"

  • 5. having uniform application;

    "a single legal code for all"

  • 6. not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective;

    "judging a contest with a single eye"

    "a single devotion to duty"

    "undivided affection"

    "gained their exclusive attention"

  • 7. involved two individuals;

    "single combat"

  • 8. individual and distinct;

    "pegged down each separate branch to the earth"

    "a gift for every single child"

同義詞辨析

only, single, sole, unique, alone

這些形容詞均可表示"唯一的"之意。

  • only: 普通用詞,??膳csole換用,但側(cè)重僅限于指定的人或物,而不需要更多。
  • single: 語氣較強,強調(diào)僅此一個,再無第二個。
  • sole: 語氣強于only,指僅有一個或一群,只考慮這一個或這一群。
  • unique: 非正式用詞,側(cè)重在一類中唯一無可匹敵、無與倫比的特征。
  • alone: 著重專指某人或某物,而不是別的。

virgin, maiden, single

這些名詞均含"未婚者,孤身一人"之意。

  • virgin: 通常指未婚者,貞潔未被玷污的人,或指婚煙關(guān)系尚未完成者。
  • maiden: 與virgin含義相近,但更著重年輕與未婚,或未曾發(fā)生過任何兩性關(guān)系。
  • single: 指尚未結(jié)婚的人,但更多指終生不結(jié)婚的人。

同義詞

n.個人,獨一無二

individualone-of-a-kindoner

反義詞

adj.單個的;單身的

marrieddouble

其他釋義

doublemarried

最新英語單詞

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