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loner

/loh-ner/US // ˈloʊ nər //UK // (ˈləʊnə) //

独行侠,独行者,独行客,特立独行者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others: He was always a loner—no one knew him well.

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Examples

  • She doesn’t think it’s just that loners or some straggly groups get more easily picked off by predators.

  • Our mental image of tinfoil-hat-wearing loners isolated in dark basements is outdated.

  • Yet these dangerous rats, which scientists assumed were loners, turn out to have a close and cuddly family life.

  • The belted kingfisher, a loner from the moment it leaves its parents until it dies, grants a brief annual exception for a mate and chicks.

  • Attracting both loner and gregarious locusts, he says, means 4VA could function to both bring solitary locusts into the swarm and keep that swarm together over time.

  • Fatherless and emotionally needy, du Pont was a loner who sought companionship and adoration—usually at great financial cost.

  • Nor was Oswald an irrational, discontented Dostoyevskian loner, as some depicted him.

  • Reporters spoke to classmates who recalled Ciancia as a shy loner who may have been bullied.

  • This restless loner had signed up with British naval intelligence soon after the fall of France.

  • The missing leg is only the most obvious sign that Strike is damaged goods, a loner wounded by life long before he went overseas.

  • He had been a loner for so many years that he found a certain inverse pleasure in following someone else.

  • I guess that's why they called him a loner, because he was alone so much.

  • Well, he had hair like his mother for example, but he was a loner.

  • "I think we're all agreed, fellows," said Chal-loner of the Morning Script, the dean of the gathering.

  • Well, my first impression of this individual is that he was somewhat, to use the term, "loner."