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单词 lone
释义
lone
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ləʊn/us
/loʊn/
alone:
单独的，独自的
a lonesurvivor唯一的幸存者
He was a lonevoice(= the onlyperson)arguingagainst areductioninpayments.他是唯一反对减薪的人。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
having no others like this one
  • onlyShe's the only one who can do it.
  • oneHe's the one person you can rely on in a situation like this.
  • singleYou haven't listened to a single thing I've said!
  • lonePolice were looking for a lone gunman.
  • soleHe was the sole survivor of the plane crash.
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lone parent/mother/father
someone who haschildrenbut nopartnerlivingwith them
单亲／单身母亲／单身父亲
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Numbers: single, double & multiple
  • alone
  • bilateral
  • bilaterally
  • binary
  • bipartite
  • bipolar
  • deka-
  • double-action
  • dual
  • dualism
  • individual
  • multiple
  • plural
  • purely
  • solitary
  • trilateral
  • trilaterally
  • tripartite
  • unilaterally
  • unit
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Marriage: marital status
(Definition oflonefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

lone| American Dictionary

lone
adjective[not gradable]
us
/loʊn/
being the only one in aplaceorsituation;standingalone:
Hersingingisbackedby a lonepiano.
(Definition oflonefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflone

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Two forces, then, are active in the conflict, where onelonefigure is pitted against a phalanx.
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He found that harem males in herds had to walk farther per day to nourish themselves than did members of aloneall-male group.
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Loneparents can earn up to £15 a week before their income support is reduced.
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Loneparents have much smaller proportions of household heads in the labour market than two parent families.
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Tentative estimates suggest that the average duration ofloneparenthood could be between three and five years.
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Families headed byloneparents have fewer children than two parent families, with an average 1.6 dependent children compared with 1.8.
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We can treatloneparents as poor people, needing means-tested social assistance of some sort- as we do now.
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If the extension of such benefits to new groups ofloneparents took shape piecemeal, it might divide the" family lobby" rather than unite them.
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What role then do grandparents and other extended kin typically play today when one of their own children finds herself or himself aloneparent ?
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Furthermore, alonesignal may split and appear as two distinct points, or two separate signals may overlap and appear as one.
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The 425 parent respondents were overwhelmingly female and 14 per cent wereloneparents.
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Part of the solution was seen to be a reduction in the number of workless households, includingloneparents.
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The training needs ofloneparents may, however, be assessed with some discretionary grants available.
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In both cases changing attitudes - towardsloneparenthood and the needs of the disabled - have been significant together with institutional factors.
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Ifloneparents are equally motivated by class, ethnicity and locality as by gender then the adjective gendered is not particularly appropriate.
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