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单词 man alone
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Definition of man alone in English:

man alone

noun
NZ
  • A self-reliant, rugged male, particularly as a New Zealand stereotype.

    he was an outsider, a man alone, living just where adventure begins
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He made the effort to suggest he is not a man alone.
    • He is the key actor of his generation, through his incarnation of the dominant Pakeha cultural archetype, that of the "man alone."
    • It's a portrait of a man alone.
    • He is very much a man alone in this saga.
    • With no car, little money, few possessions and the rural postal service as his means of communication, he was truly a man alone.
    • His early poetry was apocalyptic, a man alone talking to his god about the creation of the world.
    • These two books consider the man alone theme, albeit in radically different ways.
    • I guess this will also add to the 'man alone' image of New Zealand cinema.
    • Besides, he adds, "there is nothing better than a man alone who can live with himself".
    • Ruth is a complex kind of "man alone" figure - her solitude is vulnerable rather than romantic.

Origin

1980s: from the novel Man Alone (1939) by John Mulgan.

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