alone

英 [?'l??n] 美[?'lon]

反義詞

CET4TEM4IELTS考研TOEFLCET6中高頻詞核心詞匯

比較級:?aloneer;最高級:?aloneest;

alone 單獨的

來自短語 all one .

alone: alone: [13] Although partly disguised by its pronunciation, alone is in fact simply a compound of all and one (whose /wun/ pronunciation began to develop around the 15th century). In Old English it was a completely separate phrase, all āna, literally ‘completely by oneself’, but by the 13th century this had coalesced into a single word. Loss of its initial ain the 14th century gave rise to the adjective lone.
=> all, lone, one
alone (adj., adv.): c. 1300 contraction of all ane, from Old English all ana "unaccompanied, all by oneself," from all "all, wholly" (see all) + an "one" (see one). Similar compounds are found in German (allein) and Dutch (alleen).

1. If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.--Jean Paul Sartre: 如果你獨處時感到寂寞，說明沒有把自己陪好。

2. Don't leave a child alone in a room with an open fire.: 房間里有裸露的明火時，不要讓孩子獨處其中。

3. He knew when to leave well alone and when to interfere.: 他知道什么時候該適可而止，什么時候該插手干預。