(1)孤獨的，寂寞的(unhappy and needing a friend，etc when alone)：feel extremely/almost intolerably～感到非常/幾乎無法忍受的孤獨;She lives a～life. 她過著孤獨的生活。She lives all alone but she never feels～. 她一直獨自生活，但從來不感到孤獨。a～/～-looking boy 孤獨/樣子孤獨的男孩;
(2)孤單的(without companions)[作attrib]：a～traveller 孤單的旅客;Robinson Crusoe spent many～days on the desert island. 魯賓遜在那荒涼的島上度過了許多孤單的日子。
(3)偏僻的，人煙稀少的(far from other people or places;not often visited)[通常作attrib]：a～house/island/mountain village 偏僻的房子/島嶼/山村;a～country road 人跡稀少的鄉(xiāng)間小路;the～iest place on earth 世界上最荒涼的地方;Their country cottage is a bit～.他們的鄉(xiāng)間別墅有點兒偏僻?！纪絠solated，remote;
←lone adj 孤獨(單)的;
→′loneliness n 孤獨，寂寞;
【辨異】lonely與alone、lone和lonesome的區(qū)別見ALONE。