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核心畫面

You can hold the picture of just one—one and only one, standing alone with no others beside it. Every other meaning of 'single' is that 'just one' put to work: one emphasised ('every single'), one person alone (), one ticket one way, one song on its own, one room for one.

可以想成「就只有一個」——獨獨一個、旁邊沒有別的。single 後面所有意思都是這個「就一個」拿去用：把一個強調到底…更多收起可以想成「就只有一個」——獨獨一個、旁邊沒有別的。single 後面所有意思都是這個「就一個」拿去用：把一個強調到底（every single）、一個人獨自（單身）、單方向一張票、單獨發行的一首歌、給一個人住的房間。核心畫面很單純，就是那個孤零零的「一」。

原始詞典資料32 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Singlename

  • 1

    A surname from Old English.

singleadj/ˈsɪŋɡl̩/

  • 1

    Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.

    • Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now?
    • The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose.
  • 2

    Not divided in parts.

    • The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate.
  • 3

    Designed for the use of only one.

    • a single room
  • 4

    Performed by one person, or one on each side.

    • a single combat
    • These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, […] / Who now defies thee thrice to single fight.
  • 5

    Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.

    • Forms often ask if a person is single, married, divorced, or widowed. In this context, a person who is dating someone but who has never married puts "single".
    • Josh put down that he was a single male on the dating website.
  • 6

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesHaving only one rank or row of petals.

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    obsoleteSimple and honest; sincere, without deceit.

    • Therefore, when thyne eye is single: then is all thy boddy full off light. Butt if thyne eye be evyll: then shall all thy body be full of darknes?
    • I speak it with a single heart.
  • 8

    Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.

    • simple ideas are opposed to complex , and single ideas to compound.
    • The most that is required is, that the passage of Scripture, selected as the foundation of the sacred oration, should, like the oration itself, be single, full, and unsuperfluous in its character.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    obsoleteSimple; foolish; weak; silly.

    • He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.

singlenoun/ˈsɪŋɡl̩/

  • 1

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B, usually 7 inches in diameter and played at 45 RPM.

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    entertainmentlifestylemusicA popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.

    • The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.
  • 3

    One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.

    • He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
  • 4

    ball-gamescricketgamesA score of one run.

    • He refused to take a single as the ball was dropped by his opponent's best fielder.
  • 5

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesA hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.

  • 6

    dominoesgamesA tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.

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    informalA bill valued at $1.

    • I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.
    • She looked in her purse, found a ten and a single, gave him the ten. ‘I'll spend it on booze,’ he said.
  • 8

    A one-way ticket.

    • ‘I want to know, Mr Stone, if, in the course of the day, you have issued any tickets to a person dressed in Arab costume?’ His reply was prompt. ‘I have — by the last train, the 7.25, — three singles.’
另外 8 個記錄的用法
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    ball-gamesfootballgamesA score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone.

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    hobbieslifestylesportsA game with one player on each side, as in tennis.

    • After tea, Mrs. Inglethorp went to lie down to rest before her efforts in the evening and I challenged Mary Cavendish to a single at tennis.
  • 11

    One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.

  • 12

    dialectalA handful of gleaned grain.

  • 13

    computingengineeringmathematicsA floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.

    • If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats.
  • 14

    broadcastingfilmmediaA shot of only one character.

    • But if the same scene is shot in singles (or “over-the-shoulder” shots where one of the actors is only a lumpy shoulder in the foreground), the editor and the director can almost redirect the scene on film.
  • 15

    A single cigarette.

  • 16

    obsoleterail-transportrailwaystransportSynonym of single-driver.

    • A few such examples have been preserved, as is well known, such as one of the Stirling 8-ft. singles of the late Great Northern Railway, the Great Western 4-4-0 City of Truro, ex-Caledonian single-driver No. 123, the Brighton 0-4-2 Gladstone, and others.

singleverb/ˈsɪŋɡl̩/

  • 1

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.

    • Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.
  • 2

    agriculturebusinesslifestyleTo thin out.

    • Paul went joyfully, and spent the afternoon helping to hoe or to single turnips with his friend.
    • The seeds did not germinate in many parts of a row until rains in end of June and thunderplumps in first week of July brought them up later in patches, so that no second sowing was necessary, but singling was done by stages.
  • 3

    To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.

    • Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed.
  • 4

    archaicTo sequester; to withdraw; to retire.

    • an agent singling itself from consorts
  • 5

    archaicTo take alone, or one by one; to single out.

    • men […] commendable when they are singled
  • 6

    To reduce (a railway) to single track.

    • In the east of Yorkshire, Mr. A. M. Ross reports the belief of local railwaymen that the N.E.R. plans to single the York-Beverley line, leaving an adequate provision of passing loops, and to operate it by C.T.C. from York; […]
    • The Henley branch, recently singled and fully track-circuited, is worked by acceptance lever between Twyford and Shiplake cabins.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。