单词 | lone |
例句 | lone adjective •a lone police officer:solitary, single, solo, unaccompanied, unescorted, alone, by oneself/itself, sole, companionless | detached, isolated.WORD NOTE lone If you want to use lone in the poetic sense of "lonely, unfrequented, uninhabited," realize that this use will recall for many readers the last line of Shelley's "Ozymandias": “The lone and level sands stretch far away.” If you don't want to evoke this poem, you might want to use another word, such as desolate or unpeopled. — EMConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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