| 词汇 | lone |
| 释义 | lone adjective[ before noun ] uk /ləʊn/ us /loʊn/ alone: 单独的，独自的 a lone survivor唯一的幸存者 He was a lone voice(= the only person) arguing against a reduction in payments.他是唯一反对减薪的人。 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. lone parent/mother/father someone who has children but no partner living with them单亲／单身母亲／单身父亲 Numbers: single, double & multiple alone bilateral bilaterally bipartite bipolar deca- deka- double-action dual himself multiple plural quintuple solitarily solitary trilateral trilaterally triply unilateral unit You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Marriage: marital status lone | American Dictionarylone adjective[ not gradable ] us/loʊn/ being the only one in a place or situation; standing alone: Her singing is backed by a lone piano. Examples of lonelone Two forces, then, are active in the conflict, where one lone figure is pitted against a phalanx. He found that harem males in herds had to walk farther per day to nourish themselves than did members of a lone all-male group. Lone parents can earn up to £15 a week before their income support is reduced. Lone parents have much smaller proportions of household heads in the labour market than two parent families. Tentative estimates suggest that the average duration of lone parenthood could be between three and five years. Families headed by lone parents have fewer children than two parent families, with an average 1.6 dependent children compared with 1.8. We can treat lone parents as poor people, needing means-tested social assistance of some sort- as we do now. If the extension of such benefits to new groups of lone parents took shape piecemeal, it might divide the" family lobby" rather than unite them. What role then do grandparents and other extended kin typically play today when one of their own children finds herself or himself a lone parent ? Furthermore, a lone signal may split and appear as two distinct points, or two separate signals may overlap and appear as one. The 425 parent respondents were overwhelmingly female and 14 per cent were lone parents. Part of the solution was seen to be a reduction in the number of workless households, including lone parents. The training needs of lone parents may, however, be assessed with some discretionary grants available. In both cases changing attitudes - towards lone parenthood and the needs of the disabled - have been significant together with institutional factors. If lone parents are equally motivated by class, ethnicity and locality as by gender then the adjective gendered is not particularly appropriate. See all examples of lone These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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