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one-man

/wuhn-man/US // ˈwʌnˌmæn //

单人,独行侠,单身,独身者

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to, or operated, performed, or used by one person: a one-man office; a one-man band.
    • : preferring or seeking romantic involvement with one man only: a one-man woman.

Examples

  • Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.

  • In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.

  • Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

  • In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.

  • That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.

  • Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

  • He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

  • There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.

  • Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.

  • Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.