| 英语单词 | loner |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['ləʊnə(r)] 美 ['loʊnər] |
| 中文释义 | n.孤独的人;不合群的人或动物;<美口>独立自主的人 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Because I was living a lie, I became a loner. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 由于我在谎言中生活,我成了一个孤独的人。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A loner is someone who prefers being alone to spending time with other people. If you're a loner, you'd rather take a walk in the woods by yourself than go to a party. |
| vocabulary扩展 | An extreme kind of loner is a hermit, a person who lives far from society, completely alone, and doesn't interact with anyone. Other loners are simply introverts, people who often need a break from socializing and enjoy spending time on their own. Loner seems to have appeared in the 1940s, originally in "Life" magazine's description of baseball player Ted Williams as "something of a loner (who) refuses to pal around with his teammates." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]孤僻的人;不合群的人 If you describe someone as a loner, you mean they prefer to be alone rather than with a group of people.
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