【同义词辨析】 孤独alone-desolate

alone: suggests the objective fact of being by oneself with a slight notion of emotional involvement: happier when left ~ occasionally.


solitary: may indicate isolation as a chosen course: glorying in the calm of her ~ life; but more often it suggests sadness and a sense of loss: left ~ by the death of his wife.


lonely: adds a suggestion of longing for companionship: felt ~ and forsaken.


lonesome: heightens the suggestion of sadness and poignancy of separation: an only child sometimes leads a ~ life.   only child独生子/女,如I'm an only child我是独生子/女


lone: may replace lonely or lonesome but typically is as objective as alone: a ~ robin pecking at the lawn.


forlorn: stresses dejection, woe, and listlessness at separation from someone or something dear: a child lost and ~.


desolate: implies inconsolable grief at isolation caused by loss or bereavement : her brother's death now left her completely ~.   bereave使丧失亲友


alone: 表示客观事实仅有少量情感色彩,solitary: 可表示自愿独自一人,但更常表示悲哀落寞,lonely: 增加了渴望陪伴的暗示,lonesome: 进一步提升了悲哀感伤色彩,lone: 可替换lonely或lonesome表示感情色彩,但通常像alone一样表示客观事实, forlorn: 强调和亲人分离的痛苦悲惨沮丧,desolate: 是丧失亲人的痛苦悲伤难以慰藉

记忆方法: 1) 首字母分成三部分AS LLL FD作为孤独的朋友,LLL想成"lonely"歌词里lonely lonely lonely,FD想成FrienD朋友<==孤独

          2) 孤独的意思独自一人无人陪伴mean isolated from others.1) 首字母分成三部分AS LLL FD作为孤独的朋友,LLL想成"lonely"歌词里lonely lonely lonely,FD想成FrienD朋友<==孤独       (solitarylone既可以不带感情色彩表示客观事实,也可以带感情色彩)