alone
alone 英 [əˈləʊn] 美 [əˈloʊn]
adj. 独自的；孤独的 adv. 独自地；单独地
- The word alone comes from a combination of the Middle English words "all" and "one," which is really all you need to know to understand the word. A person who is alone is all-in-one; there's no one else around.
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- adj. 独自的；孤独的
- adv. 独自地；单独地
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1. she left alone.
她独自离开了。
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2. He lives alone.
他独居独处。
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3. I don't like going out alone at night.
我不喜欢夜晚单独外出。
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4. She was sitting all alone in the hall.
她一个人坐在大厅里。
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5. It's hard bringing up children alone.
一个人独力抚养孩子是艰难的。
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6. The shoes alone cost £200.
仅鞋子一项就花了 200 英镑。
- alone (adj., adv.) "unaccompanied, solitary; without companions, solitary," c. 1300 contraction of all ane, from Old English all ana "unaccompanied, all by oneself," literally "wholly oneself," from all "all, wholly" (see all) + an "one" (see one). It preserves the old pronunciation of one. Similar compounds are found in German (allein) and Dutch (alleen). Sense of "and nothing else" ("Man shall not live on bread alone") is from c. 1200. Related: Aloneness. Adverbial alonely seems to be obsolete since 17c.
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