alone是什么意思，词典释义与在线翻译：
adj.(形容词)
只，只有， 单，仅，仅仅，单单[用在名词或代词后面]
单独的，独自的
孤独的，孤单的，孤零零的
独一无二的，唯一的
adv.(副词)
单独地，独自地
只，单，只有，仅仅
孤零地，孤单地，孤独地
adj.(形容词)
[P]单独的; 独一无二的 apart from oth w unique
[A]仅仅,唯一,只有 just
adv.(副词)
单独地,独自地 without or separated from others
仅,只 exclusively
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Adjective:
"could be alone in a crowded room"
"was alone with her thoughts"
"I want to be alone"
lacking compani
"he was alone when we met him"
"she is alone much of the time"
"the lone skier on the mountain"
"a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel"
"a lonely soul"
"a solitary traveler"
exclusive of any
"she alone believed him"
"cannot live by bread alone"
"I'll have this car and this car only"
radically distincti
"he is alone in the field of microbiology"
"this theory is altogether alone in its penetration of the problem"
"Bach was unique in his handling of counterpoint"
"craftsmen whose skill is unequaled"
"unparalleled athletic ability"
"a breakdown of law unparalleled in our history"
without any others being
"was entirely to blame"
"a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children"
"he works for Mr. Smith exclusively"
"did it solely for money"
"the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone"
"a privilege granted only to him"
without anybody e
"the child stayed home alone"
"the pillar stood alone, supporting nothing"
"he flew solo"
alone的用法和样例：
用作形容词 (adj.)
Tom is not alone in finding Rick hard to work with.
并不只是汤姆一人认为和里克难以共事。
I was alone in the classroom.
我独自在教室里。
用作副词 (adv.)
After tea I wandered alone about the town.
吃过下午茶,我独自在城里漫步。
You can't live on bread alone.
你不能仅靠面包维生。
用作形容词 (adj.)
Cage alone knows the truth.
只有凯奇知道真相。
I alone remained.
只有我留下来。
You alone can do it.
只有你能做这事。
He alone foresaw the Second World War.
他是唯一预见到要发生第二次世界大战的人。
He alone is not responsible for it.
这件事只有他一个人毫无责任。
One boy alone can do this work.
只需一个男孩就能做这件工作。
The President alone has the power to appoint a member of the US cabinet.
只有总统才能有权任命美国内阁成员。
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
人民,只有人民,才是创造世界历史的动力。
Man alone has the gift of speech.
只有人类才有说话的天赋。
Meat alone is not adequate food for most people.
光有肉对大多数人来说还不足够。
Iron alone rusts.
只有铁生锈。
That job alone will take up all your time.
单是那件工作就会占去你的全部时间。
Pride alone prevented her from giving up.
只是自信心才使她没能放弃。
Hard work alone isn't enough, we must use our brains, too.
光苦干还不行,我们还得动脑筋。
Money alone can not make you happy.
光有钱不能使你幸福。
Time alone will show who was right.
只有时间能证明到底谁对。
The grant was awarded on merit alone.
补助金只发给有功绩者。
Man shall not live by bread alone.
人活着不是单靠食物。
He would be respected for that one thing alone.
仅凭那一件事他就会受到尊重。
She did the work for money alone.
她做这工作仅仅为了钱。
In Paris,35 arrests were made on January 4 alone.
在巴黎,仅1月4日一天就逮捕了35人。
I am alone.
He was all alone.
他单独一个人。
I wanted to be alone.
我想单独一个人呆一会儿。
Often she would weep when she was alone .
她一人独处时常常哭泣。
Better to be alone than in bad company.
一人独处也比和坏朋友在一起好。
After her husband's death she felt terribly alone.
丈夫死后,她感到可怕地孤独。
Let's talk the matter over as soon as we are conveniently alone.
让我们单独在一起的时候再讨论这件事情吧。
After his mother's death the boy remained quite alone.
母亲去世后,留下小男孩无人照顾。
She was not alone at the moment.
当时不止她一个人。
I am all alone here at present.
目前我独自一个人在这儿。
She's always frightened when she's alone in the house.
当一个人在屋里时,她总是害怕。
She has been alone in the world since husband died.
自丈夫死后,她一直是独自生活。
S+be+～+ prep. -phrase
I am not alone in this opinion.
持这种意见的不只是我一个人。
She is alone in believing that he is innocent.
只有她一个人相信他是无辜的。
We are not alone in thinking that it is right.
并非只有我们认为它是对的。
He was almost alone in thinking so.
这样想的,差不多就是他一个人。
Haas is alone in dreaming that he shall be a specialist one day.
只有哈斯一个仍在梦想,总有一天他会当上专家。
We were not alone in thinking that our education cause will continue to forge ahead with vigour.
并非只有我们认为我们的教育事业将要继续蓬勃发展。
I am alone with the attendant.
我单独和侍者在一起。
用作宾语补足语
It was dreadful to find oneself alone in such a place.
在这样的地方孤独一人真让人毛骨悚然。
Finding himself alone in the room he knew he had overslept.
他发现屋里只有他一个人时,就知道自己睡过了头。
用作副词 (adv.)
My father was sitting alone when I came in.
我进去时,我父亲一个人坐着。
I can't carry on alone I'll have to get help.
我一个人再也提不动了,得有人帮助我。
Can you lift the rock alone?
你一个人能搬起那块石头吗?
Every morning I walk alone in the woods.
每天早晨,我一个人在林子里散步。
This is something I can't decide alone.I'll consult with my wife about it.
这不是我自己能决定的事,我得和我妻子商量商量。
She is now eighty, and becoming too frail to live alone.
她今年80岁了,并且身体日益如此虚弱,以致不能一人单独生活。
Cage spent most of her time alone in the flat.
凯奇独自一人在这所大公寓里度过了她大半生的时间。
She went on holiday alone, she's very independent.
她独自去度假,她喜欢单独行动。
It was a definite mistake for him to have gone alone.
他独自前去是一个明显的错误。
It was risky to walk in the filthy streets alone , murder was frequent and familiar.
单独在污秽的街上走是很冒险的,因为谋杀经常发生,对人们来说并不陌生。
It is dangerous for a girl to go out alone at night.
一个女孩夜里单独外出是危险的。
I felt uneasy at thought of her going home alone at that late hour.
我为她那么晚独自回家感到不安。
It's too big a job for one man to do alone.
这工作太难,一个人干不了。
The house stood alone on the hill.
那座房子孤零零地坐落在山顶上。
He lived all alone.
他独自一个人生活。
He did it all alone.
这事全是他一个人干的。
I have to work all alone.
我不得不一个人干活。
Mary was going to London all alone.
玛丽独自一人去伦敦。
That fellow places himself among us all alone .
那个家伙在我们中间处于孤立地位。
She sat all alone on the hillside.
她孤单地坐在山坡上。
That pagoda stood on the hill all alone.
那座宝塔孤零零地立在山坡上。
Alone, he would have been terrified.
如果是孤身一人,他会吓坏的。
用作形容词 (adj.)
leave〔let〕 alone
不理,不管〔惹〕,不烦扰,不干涉 allow to be oneself
leave〔let〕 sb/sth alone
Let me alone!别管我!
Let the boy alone.He's hurting nobody.别管那个孩子,他不会伤人的。
Leave them alone to their discussion.别干扰他们,叫他们自己讨论吧。
Let him alone to do that!任他自己去做吧。
Let my things alone!别动我的东西。
How can you let it alone?你怎么能不管呢?
Some people can never let things alone.有些人凡事都想插手。
She wants to think things out quietly, so we had better leave her alone.她要安静地考虑一下,最好别打扰她。
I'm anxious about leaving him alone in the temple.让他一个人呆在庙里,我很担心。
The principal you'd better leave him alone.校长正在伏案疾书,你最好别打扰他。
Leave the cat alone!别惹那只猫!
Lea there is oil in it.别碰那个瓶子,里面有油。
更不用说,还不算 not to mention or say nothing of, certainly not
leave〔let〕 alone sth
We can't afford a bicycle, let alone a car.我们连自行车也买不起,更不用说汽车了。
She can't find money for necessities, let alone such luxuries as wine and tobacco.她连买必需品的钱都没有,哪里谈得上买烟酒之类的奢侈品呢。
It is not all of us who are born with the gift of handling normal children, let alone those of subnormal intelligence.并不是我们所有的人都生来就有管理正常儿童的才能,更不用说管理那些智力低于平常的儿童了。
He doesn't even speak his own language well, let alone French.本国语他都说不好,更不必提法语了。
leave〔let〕 alone to/-v
He can't add two and two, let alone do fractions.他连二加二都不会,更不用说做分数题了。
I couldn't afford to rent a house like that, let alone buy it.像那样的房子过去我连租都租不起,更谈不上买了。
I'm so sick today that I couldn't walk as far as the kitchen, let alone go to the zoo with you.我今天病得连厨房那么远都走不动,更不用说陪你逛动物园了。
He did not speak to me, leave alone help me.他连话都没跟我说,更谈不上帮助我了。
He won't even thank you, leave alone pay you.他连谢都不谢,甭说付钱给你了。
let alone prep.-phrase
His cabin is uninhabitable in summer, let alone in winter.他的小屋连夏天都不好住,更不用说在冬天住了。
let〔leave〕 well〔enough〕 alone
安于现状就已经行了,再搞反而会弄巧成拙了 be satisfied with conditions do nothing else for fear of spoiling sth
You can avoid all kinds of trouble by letting well alone.
随遇而安就能避免种种麻烦。
If you're in doubt about whether to try to improve matters, it's usually best to leave〔let〕 well alone.
如果你拿不准是否要使事情得到改善的话,一般说来最好是听其自然。
Last week he ruined the whole job while trying to put right a small mistake, so this time he left well alone.
上星期他想纠正一个小错误,却把整个工作弄糟了,所以这次就不画蛇添足了。
You've persuaded your father to agree to one of your requests so I should let well alone in case he changes his mind.
你已经说服你父亲答应你的一个要求,因此我不必再插手了,以免使他改变主意。
stand alone
突出,杰出 be better, higher or bigger
In the art of painting he stands alone.
他在绘画方面无与伦比。
He stands alone as a conductor of modern symphonic music.
他是一个杰出的现代交响音乐指挥。
She stands alone as an English teacher.
她是一位杰出的英语老师。
Mount Qomolangma stands alone in its magnificence.
珠穆朗玛峰的宏伟是无与伦比的。
用作形容词 (adj.)
听其自然,不干涉
更不用说,还不算,听其自然,不干涉
似乎是孤独的
在…方面是独一无二的
可怕地孤独
独自在一个地方
只有一个人持那种意见
唯独一个人持有这种想法
单独与…在一起
独自陪伴着月亮
用作副词 (adv.)
Alone on a wide wide sea!
出自：Coleridge
I am left alone in the sitting, With none to sit beside.
出自：J. M. Faulkner
This morning Pancrazio and Giovanni had gone off somewhere, Alvina and Cicio were alone on the place.
出自：D. H. Lawrence
Two rather alone people.
出自：E. Bowen
The whiteness of the cup, standing alone on the grass, is dazzling.
出自：Day Lewis
alone的详细讲解：
alone，lone，lonely和lonesome的比较：alone是表语形容词，因此能说The man is alone，不能说an alone man。也不能说very alone，只能说much alone或very much alone，且后者比前者普遍。lone是定语形容词，因此能说a lone man,不能说The man is lone。alone指“独自的”，lonely指“寂寞的”，一个人也许alone但并不lonely（虽自己一人，但不寂寞），或是虽不alone而感觉lonely（虽不是自己一个人，却还是寂寞）。有时lonely还指“不大有人到的”，如a lonely house。lonesome同lonely意思相近，指“孤单的”。
Mary is very lonesome with her husband and children so much away.
She alone went指“只有她去”，She went alone指“她独自去”。而leave him alone有时指“听任他独自一个人”，有时指“不干涉他”，let him alone指“不干涉他”；
let alone等于to say nothing of，指“更不用说，莫说”。
The house is uninhabitable in summer, let alone in winter.这房子夏天都不能住人，更不用说冬天了。
adj.(形容词)
alone的基本含义在于陈述独自一个人而没有同伴或助手的客观事实,引申可用于物。在与leave或let连用构成的习语中, alone的意思是“任其自然”。
alone在句中主要用作表语,其后常接介词in引起的短语。偶尔可用作定语或宾语补足语,用作定语时多须后置,偶尔也可前置。
不可说very alone,而应说much alone或very much alone,用very much比用much更为普遍。
alone用作形容词时不用于比较等级。
let alone可用作连词,其后可接任何词性的词项,用于非正式语体,且多用于否定句。
alone表示的“单独”一般只指一个人,但有时也可指几个人甚至众多人的“单独”,即该群人整体而非其中单个成员处于孤立状态。用作形容词或副词时均如此。例如：She didn't want to be alone with a stranger.她不愿与陌生人单独呆在一起。(本句中的alone指两个人)再如：I was left to bring up my two children alone.留下我一个人带两个孩子。(本句的alone指三个人)T so he could speak frankly.没有外人在他们旁边,所以他可以直率地讲话。(本句中的alone指几个人)
alone作“单独的,孤独的”解时,一般用作表语,当代英语中偶尔也有人把它用作定语或以very来修饰它。例如：His success drove out the terrible loss and alone feeling.他的成就弥补了这次巨大的损失,驱散了孤单的感觉。She felt very alone.她感到很孤独。注意这两种用法初学者不宜仿用。
adv.(副词)
alone用作副词的基本含义是指无伴或没有别人帮助而独自干某事。
alone用作副词时不用于比较等级。
adj.(形容词)
let alone, not to mention
这两者都可用如连词,其区别仅在于:not to mention后只接名词短语,而let alone后可接任何词。另外, let alone只用于非正式语体中,且多用于否定句。例如:
I had never seen him, let alone spoken to him.我从未见过他,更不用说与他交谈了。
leave alone, let alone
这两个短语一般来说意思相同,可以互换。例如：
Leave〔let〕 that bag alone.It's not yours!别动那个包,那不是你的!
它们之间的区别是：
1.作“不理〔管〕而听其自然”“不烦扰”解时,多用 作“不干涉”解时,多用 作“更不用说”解时, let alone比leave alone更正式。
2.leave alone可用于被动结构; 而let alone不常用于被动结构。
let alone, let well alone
这两个短语虽然只差一个well,但含义和用法已大相径庭。前者意为“更不用说”,后者意为“适可而止”; 前者用作及物动词,后者用作不及物动词。
alone, lonely
这两个词词形相近,但含义并不相同。其区别是：
1.alone可用作形容词,也可用作副词; lonely只能用作形容词。
2.alone是陈述一个“独自”的客观现实,而lonely则是描述一种“寂寞的”情绪体验; alone说的是“没有伴侣”,而lonely却含有“渴望伴侣”的意味; alone基本没有感情色彩,而lonely的感情色彩却很浓。例如：
She felt lonely when she was left alone.剩下她一人时,她感到很寂寞。
再比较以下两句：
Though I am alone,I am not lonely.
虽然只有我一个人,但并不寂寞。
Though I am not alone,I am lonely.
虽然不只我一个人,却感到寂寞。
再如：The few people on the street were alone and seemed lonely.街上那几个人孤零零的,显得很寂寞。
3.lonely所表示的感觉是主体所不希望的,而alone所表示的感觉虽然多数是主体所不希望的,但也可以是主体所希望的。例如：
Now I am alone and can do more or less whatever I like.现在我单独一个人,可以做我喜爱的事。
There was a joy in closing the door behind the last departing guest and knowing that at last one was blessedly alone.当最后一位客人离去后,你关上门并感到终于留下自己一个人怡然自得时,该是多么高兴啊。
4.lonely可用于地点表示偏僻,人迹罕至; 而alone不能这样用。
5.lonely可用作前置定语,而alone只能作后置定语。例如：
There's a lonely house in a lonely wood.在人迹罕至的树林里有一座孤零零的房子。
Riches alone cannot bring happiness.仅仅有财富不会使人幸福。
adv.(副词)
alone, by oneself
这两者均可译为“独自地”“单独地”,其差别主要在于：
1.从造成“独自地”原因上说, alone可以是主动的,也可以是被动的; 而by oneself则是主动的,是主观上愿意把自己与他人隔绝开来而造成的。例如：
他总是单独一个人吃午饭。
He always has his lunch alone.
(只说明客观事实)
He always has his lunch by himself.
(含有愿意如此的意味)
2.从“独自地”性质上说, alone可以是正常的,也可以是不正常的; 而by oneself则多是反常的,或者是出乎意料的。例如：
他自己单独生活。
He lives alone.
(只说明客观事实)
He lives by himself.
(含有该成家却单身的反常意味)
alone, only
这两个词意思相同,常常可以通用,例如：
He knew it was impossible to accomplish it by individual effort only〔alone〕.他知道只靠个人努力是不能完成那件工作的。
它们之间的区别是：
1.在句中的位置不同：alone通常要放在它所修饰的词语之后,而only却可置于其前。例如：
只有他才能做这件事。
He alone can do it.
Only he can do it.
2.含义上也有区别：alone表示只此一个,别无其他,相当于 而only则暗示所指的事物有所限制,相当于solely。例如：
Our farm alone sold 80,000 kilograms of wheat.
单是我们农场就出售了八万公斤小麦。
Only our farm sold 80,000 kilograms of wheat.
只有我们农场出售了八万公斤小麦。
第一句暗指其他农场也出售了这么多甚至更多; 而第二句则暗指其他农场没有我们多。再如：
They alone sell cotton clothing.
他们独家出售棉布服装。
They only sell cotton clothing.
他们只售棉布服装。(不售丝绸)
下面两个句子含义不同：
She alone went there.
只有她去那儿了。?(alone用作形容词修饰she,作定语)
She went there alone.
她独自去那儿了。
(alone用作副词修饰went,作状语)
下面的句子有两种含义：
He can do the work alone.
他能做的只是这项工作。
他一个人就能做这项工作。
这些形容词均有“孤单的，寂寞的”之意。
:lonely强调孤独感，含“渴望和他人在一起”的意味。
:alone普通用词，指独自一人的状态，有时含孤寂之意。
:desolate语气强烈，强调遭受损失和失去亲人所带来的难以忍受的痛苦。
:lone较文雅，可与lonely换用。
:solitary可指因被遗忘或遗弃而产生的孤独感，也可指人的生性孤僻。
这些形容词均可表示“唯一的”之意。
:only普通用词，常可与sole换用，但侧重仅限于指定的人或物，而不需要更多。
:single语气较强，强调仅此一个，再无第二个。
:sole语气强于only，指仅有一个或一群，只考虑这一个或这一群。
:unique非正式用词，侧重在一类中唯一无可匹敌、无与伦比的特征。
:alone着重专指某人或某物，而不是别的。
adv.(副词)
学校正在采取有效措施来提高学生独立工作的能力。
误 The university is taking effective measures to improve the students' ability to work alone.
正 The university is taking effective measures to improve the students' ability to work independently.
析 work alone是“单独工作”, work independently才表示“独立工作”。
她不但有学识,而且有经验。
误 She has not alone knowledge, but (also) experience.
正 She has not only knowledge, but (also) experience.
析 alone不用于not alone...but also结构。
☆ 14世纪进入英语，直接源自古英语的all ana，意为单独一人。
alone的海词问答与网友补充：
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I Work Alone
"Once upon a time, I had somebody that I cared about... It was a partner. Somebody I had to look after. And in this world, that sort of shit's good for one thing: Gettin' you killed. So you know what I did? I wisened the fuck up, and realized it's got to be just me out there."
has just been offered by an equal to team up. Perhaps it is an out-of-town
looking for help on a case that wandered into the Captain's turf. Or his . If Captain Lonerguy is lucky, it is , .
In any of these situations, the answer will always be the same. "I work alone."
Cue in audience
as they must now sit through several scenes of Captain Lonerguy , only to be rescued by said offerer, just so that he can learn
about the ... or at least strength in numbers. (Even, mind you, if it turns out that he's an
— he actually doesn't seem to be alone a lot).
Occasionally, (and especially if they've had a partner or
they will strenuously refuse partnering with a , and/or
who are competent.
Even after they have learned their lesson, they may have to hear
to keep it going.
really doesn't need other's help and is more
for saying so. These guys are more likely a
for their solitude.
and heroes that actually enjoy their solitude count in this type. A form of .
are common. Of course, saying this line can sometimes be , and in this particular instance, the usually competent hero might for once find himself in way over his head, and will, often reluctantly, accept the offer of help.
if characters reject others' offer to help them deal with his issues. Contrast with , , or .
The hero knows that they are
who can deal with a problem, and . If they do team up, they're likely to make a
and go fight the
alone before it gets ugly.
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series, Vegeta always wants to train alone, even though he could potentially become stronger if he trained with a sparring buddy. Perhaps justified given that the only potential sparring partner who'd be able to keep up with him is the guy he desperat Vegeta wants training that he alone will benefit from.
In , Aoi recites this when he is offered a position in Section 9.
Hal does this and, despite emphasizing teamwork, rookie Hiki also tended to do this.
Kouji Minamoto in
for the first five episodes. And then he gets his ass handed to him by Grumblemon in episode 6 but he doesn't accept being part of a team until episode 7 after many fights with .
Phoenix Ikki from
is a textbook case of this. Years after the manga debuted he's still off doing his own thing away.
and specially
are in a pinch, that is. Then you'll have Ikki literally screaming
This is Chang Wufei's attitude throughout , until an encounter with the ZERO System convinces him that teaming up with the other pilots is the best course of action. He goes right back to being a loner in the post-series manga, culminating in Endless Waltz where he does a
because he refuses to change his way of thinking.
A common theme in sports manga/anime is having a very talented player say this repeatedly and refuse to team-work, often to see him/herself forced to when things go hard. Examples are: Kaede Rukawa from ; Koujiro Hyuuga, Louis Napoleon and
Natourezza from ; Ryoma Echizen and Kaoru Kaidoh (at the beginning) from .
in the case of Takeshi Momoshiro and Ryoma, who try to play doubles and simply cannot do so in the Fudomine arc. Momoshiro gets over that later and becomes a decent doubles player, but Ryoma stays a singles player.
Sharon calls Break "Mr. One-Man-Show" because of his tendency to refuse help and go off on his own. He even says himself that he doesn't know how to fight as a team. He's actually pretty good at taking care of business by himself, but due to his recent blindness and deteriorating overall physical condition, his willingness to rely on others, however slightly, is part of his character development.
George Schuyter of , as a result of , falls into this to the point at which he actively forbids Muhyo and Roji from participating in the fight against Vector and threatens Roji with his sword when he arrives.
: After the , Saya, as part of her , makes this a priority and goes out of her way to avoid working with her pals in the Red Shield because, after losing Riku, she doesn't want to feel the pain of loss anymore. Eventually, she snaps out of it.
This was actually the
of 's Yuri Tsukikage. She was so confident in her abilities as Cure Moonlight, that she ignored her partner, Cologne, in finding allies. End result? A massive
leading to Cologne's death and her temporary depowerment.
holds this stance for the first third or so of , insisting that 's only good for getting in the way and being annoying. He changes his tune completely post-, to the point that he doesn't see any reason to be a Hero unless Kotetsu's there with him.
!: Seto Kaiba often utters this when someone offers their help. He actually despises the idea of team work because he hates relying on others, especially his rivals.
In , a silent version is Homura's typical response to Mami.
Cassandra from
always preferred to work alone during her lifetime, secretly self-conscious about the "ugliness" of the Dust Eater technique that propelled her to the top rank of the Organization's warriors. When she let other people get closer to her, it did not end well at all: one of them let the other be brutally murdered, copied Cassandra's technique, and had her executed, as well.
and , Misaki Shokuhou refuses to trust anybody whom her mental powers cannot affect, as she is extremely paranoid and tends to assume people she can't mind-read will betray her. She has reluctantly worked with the immune Mikoto Misaka a few times for a common goal, but they can't stand each other. Ironically, since she's madly in love with Touma Kamijou, she'll believe anything he says and follow his path anywhere, even though she can't read or affect his mind.
In , Yuu is constantly talking about how friends and teammates are useless and he only needs to rely on his own skill and strength to defeat vampires. He refuses to bond with anybody because after losing his friends and family, he wants to . After several incidents where it's beaten into his head that vampires cannot be beaten alone, he finally gets it and .
In the pilot episode of : Brotherhood, Kimblee nearly says this word for word when asked to be a sidekick by the Freezer Alchemist, but uses his title instead.
&&&&Comic Books&
Nearly every superhero team up starts with one of the parties saying this. Yes, we get it. You are usually alone on your beat. But aren't you , missing out on dating
and generally sucking at your normal life ? Why complain now that you have a ?!
This is 's favourite phrase, despite him nearly always having at least one sidekick, several other members of the Bat family, and regularly working with the Justice League.
For all the
over the Hush arc, it did a very good job of pointing out that for a supposed loner Batman has a huge surrogate family (from Alfred to the Robins to the JLA to random people from ).
And now he's formed , following a moment of self-realisation:
"The first truth of Batman. It had to be one I don't like to admit. The gunshots left me alone. For years I was alone in the echoing dark of that wait. But something else defined the exact moment Batman was born. The first truth of Batman. The saving grace. I was never alone. I had help."
that she's not a good partner because she's used to work alone.
In the former page quote,
are open to the occasional team-up but do work pretty exclusively alone, and attempts to change that generally don't work out. But
was created for a team book, and therefore almost always works in groups. He doesn't seem to have noticed. In fact, he is currently a member of four different teams.
Though these days, Spider-Man is a regular with , having proved his worth as a member of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Spider-Man may claim to be a loner, but he was the lead team up hero of the Marvel Team Up comics for almost every comic for over a decade, which as the name implies involves two superheroes getting together to fight off some menace. It gets to the point that future volumes and following comics after that are outright named after him.
In , Huntress has an extended soliloquy explaining that she feel's honor-bound to work alone because of the code of omerta. It's an interesting look at the duality of the character, because the same mafia that she is determined to destroy is also the source of her peculiar code of honor.
books, this is a large part of what helps distinguish the
Green Lanterns of Earth from one another: some of them are far more likely to work with fellow Corpsmen than others, and some are far more willing to serve as the Green Lantern Corps' representative on the
than others. Case in point: John Stewart was a decorated Marine veteran before he got his ring, and Guy Gardner (while something of a hothead) is a former college football player, so neither of them is any
by contrast, Hal Jordan is a former test pilot and Air Force ace, and Kyle Rayner is an artist, so both of them are far more likely to work on their own.note&
eighth season story "Harmonic Divergence", a rookie Slayer named Soledad insisted on working alone, rejecting Buffy's group, and it was a disaster. She targeted Harmony in the middle of a live broadcast of , and was not only killed and drained (possibly Harmony's crowning moment as a villain, even if it was an accident) and exposed the Slayer Organization to the world in the process. This not gave Harmony's show a huge ratings boost, but enabled Harmony to level a great deal of
towards them for a while.
Pee Wee Herman in : "I'm a loner, Dottie. A Rebel."
Every single buddy cop movie that starts with them not being buddies.
Pretty much every action adventure cop movie really
Used (word for word) in .
Also ends up pushing Buddy/Syndrome to his .
. Kruger refuses to work with other agents in the Witness Protection program to prevent the possibility of a leak. (It turns out his caution is more than justified).
Kruger: "I work alone. If anyone comes to you and claims that I sent them... (hands witness a revolver)...use this."
: At the end of the movie, Hoot tells Eversman "I'm faster on my own" before he goes out again to search for the missing pilot.
Lisbeth Salander in the The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (movie version of "")
adopts (and even states) this mentality to Q and Pam in , in his quest to take down Franz Sanchez and his drug empire. Still, it's implied that he's going solo because he doesn't want their deaths on his hands, as the last person - Bond's ally Felix Leiter - who tried to mess with Sanchez, he ended up brutally mauled and his wife killed.
When Bond encounters his
Wai Lin in , he suggests they
during their
after escaping mooks
on a motorbike. She gives this trope and leaves him handcuffed to a pipe. As always, they end up working together anyway.
: Mystique
this on her preference to Nightcrawler when he asks why he can't go with her.
refuses to train Matilda for this exact reason.
. The Treadstone agents, though at that point Bourne is unaware of it, thanks to his amnesia.
Bourne: Who else is out here? Who else — how many you got out here?
Professor: I work alone, like you. We always work alone.
The Infiltrator (2016).
When the protagonist, a married undercover FBI agent, claims he has a fiancee to get out of sleeping with a prostitute provided by the criminals he's infiltrating, the FBI insist on providing a female agent as the 'fiancee'.
He gives this trope, but she turns out to be a natural at undercover work.
&&&&Literature&
In Prisoner of the Horned Helmet, the main character had his entire tribe destroyed when he was 9 or 10 (he doesn't know which). as a result, he swears to never depend on other people, and will not work with anything that has two legs. He does have a pet wolf, though.
In 's , Troy did not make friends easily among the other refugees and is isolated.
In 's , D'Eyree realizes that she is vulnerable because she's always been solitary.
Lisbeth Salander in "". From the beginning of the first book, it is known that she works as a private investigator, and never comes into the office unless to deliver a report. She talks to people only when necessary and cuts off all contact with Blomkvist in the second book because
she has fallen in love with him, then loses contact with the few friends she has when she travels around the world in the second book. When she comes home after more than a year she remembers that she had a casual girlfriend, Miriam Wu, who she didn't say goodbye to.
When Blomkvist repeatedly offers her help in the second book when
Lisbeth becomes the Prime Suspect of a murder investigation Lisbeth denies him, because she looks out for herself, never trusting anyone to help her. This leads to
her taking on Zalachenko and Niedermann by herself, and getting shot in the head. The reason she survives, is because Blomkvist finds her in time to call an ambulance, and duct tapes the wounds on her body, to which she responds "Kalle Fucking Blomkvist"
In , Nikita has been refusing or getting rid of her assigned partners for the last three years, partly because she's bad at working with others, partly because she has too many secrets to be comfortable with people getting close to her, and partly because she worries that they're her mother's spies. Robin is the seventeenth attempt at having her team up with someone, and the first one that sticks.
&&&&Live Action TV&
. Averting this trope is what makes Buffy different from other Slayers, who are only supposed to work with their . Instead from the first episode, Buffy gathers a
who are eventually dubbed the Scooby Gang, and it's usually not a good sign whenever Buffy finds herself drifting apart from them. For instance "The Wish" shows an
where Buffy doesn' Wishverse!Buffy is an emotionless killing machine who is easily finished off by the .
: Sophia says this a few times when someone interjects as she's telling a Sicily story.
The Tenth Doctor in , for a while.
After having lost two companions in tragic ways, the Doctor insisted on traveling alone, claiming that he didn't want to have his hearts broken again.
Deconstructed in the episode "The Waters of Mars", where after having spent too much time traveling without , the Doctor goes mad over his inability to change a fixed point in time, and adopts an
persona, claiming that since he's the last Time Lord, then the laws of time are his to command. He refers to humans as "little people" and is only
when a woman whose life he saved committed suicide in order to preserve the timeline.
Then subverted with End of Time.
Wilf: Have you got anyone?
The Doctor: No. Traveling alone. I thought it was better, I thought... but I did some things, they went wrong... I need... []
Abby of . Her bosses occasionally forced her to take on lab assistants, but she drove them away. After one of them
tried to stab her, management decided to leave well enough alone.
: Jesse has this problem. He used to be out in the field but got put behind a desk mainly because he didn't work well with others.
: Dexter tells Miguel this in season three and Lumen in season five, but it didn't really work out either time.
On , Mulder is originally portrayed this way. He hates the fact that he's been partnered with Scully and spends most of the first season alternating between annoying the hell out of her and being nice to her. By season two, though, he doesn't work alone...he just works with Scully. And if he can't work with Scully, he wants to work alone. He doesn't like be partnered with anyone else even for a short time. Scully does the same thing in season 8 when partnered with John Doggett.
Andros from
is portrayed this way, especially when he's introduced. He's not thrilled to run into the former , and fully intends to send them back to Earth and out of his way. Part of his
is learning the value of working with a team. He does have
though - his former partner, Zhane (the Silver Ranger), was severely injured in a fight a few years ago and is now in a coma.
he shows up to fight, but the rest of the time he stays as far away from the team as possible. Gradually eases over the series, and by the last few episodes Cole and Alyssa are turning up at his work and he agrees to join a party on the Animarium.
is another one that needs to warm up to interacting with others.
Sailor Mars pulls this after she receives her powers in , though she kept getting pulled into battles with the other scouts, and Usagi wasn't about to stop trying to be her friend.
Sailor V/Venus pulls this too, when she's pretending to be the Moon Princess the others are supposed to protect.
episode , Jake initially does not want the help of the other Special Children, but changes his tune after he runs into his first demon.
Parodied (like everything else) in : Angie constantly asserts that she doesn't need help or a partner. Not even when moving a sofa.
&&&& Professional Wrestling&
's whole gimmick in WWE was a misanthropic loner who hated everybody. This was less so everywhere else, as he was a 3x
and he teamed regularly in Japan.
was in several tag matches over his career, but he wasn't very successful in them.
While , the star of Saitama Pro Wrestling Company, has been in tag matches in other promotions, he's known primarily as a singles wrestler.
's teams actually tended to be pretty successful, they were just infrequent, as he lived by the mantra "DTA - don't trust anybody".
" needs no one!" has practically become her
in SHINE. The shuffling of two , couldn't make her stop screaming it at anyone who would listen, noor the possible emergence of two more.
has a well-known reputation as "stable poison" — every faction that he has been a part of in the WWE fizzled out with him being the only one to make it out intact. The New Breed, the Straight Edge Society, the New Nexus...it was probably part of why
were never officially connected to him any way.
is very much the same as Punk, though it's mainly because he's simply too unstable to keep a leash on and has either complete indifference to visceral hatred for just about everybody.
&&&&Roleplay&
uses another variant. In the first game, several different players attempted to assist the godmodder. Each time it resulted in the godmodder stating that he did not want anyone else doing his job, and then pounding them into the ground, or .
&&&&Tabletop Games&
In the 4th Edition of , the history of the enmity between Bahamut and Tiamat dates back to one dragon god named Io, the Creator of Dragonkind. Short version: A wise and noble being, yet very arrogant, Io was too proud to accept help when the other gods formed groups for mutual protection in the ancient war against the primordial. So it was that Io challenged a powerful primordial named Erek-Hus, the King of Terror by himself, and lost, split down the middle by the abominations mighty axe. But then, to Erek-Hus' shock, two young gods sprouted from Io's remains, Bahmut from the left and Tiamat from the right. The two new deities leapt at the primordial, tearing him to pieces. But when they looked upon each other, they hated each other at once. Bahamut embodied Io's desire to protect creation and his fairness, while Tiamat embodied his hubris, arrogance, and greed. As the story goes, even after the gods were victorious over the primordials, one thing that both Bahamut and Tiamat kept from their parent was the desire to work alone. Since that day, Tiamat rarely makes alliances with any other evil being as equals, while Bahamut, while revered by good dragons, can be one of the least approachable of good deities.
Kopaka says this, word-for-word to Pohatu in .
Kopaka: I work alone.
Pohatu: What, by choice? Or just
Kopaka's mostly gotten over it by the end of the story, however.
&&&&Video Games&
Noble Six's rep in . He's even referred to as a "Lone Wolf".
In , Amarant works alone. Naturally he is a "survival of the fittest" kinda player... and eventually learns
from Zidane, after an object lesson or two.
Lightning spends the majority of
merely tolerating the rest of the group. She outright ignores Sazh, constantly tries to ditch the others, and tries to abandon Hope when it becomes clear that he can't keep up. She punches Snow twice, slaps Fang, and is hostile to pretty much everyone. She views the rest of the team as obstacles slowing her down, and it's only after a heart to heart with Hope that she slowly begins to realize how precious teamwork is.
In , Havoc outright states that he left the Dead-6 commando unit because he works better alone, and it turns out that he does.
Urdnot Wrex points out that he's never been much of one for working in an organized army, as "things get... messy." He works best alone, or "in very small groups." Fortunately, Shepard's team counts as such.
Previous to that, the turian Spectre Nihlus declines to accompany Commander Shepard's ground team on the mission in Eden Prime, claiming that he moves faster on his own. This ends up getting him shot in the back of the head by his colleague Saren.
works alone. The game manages to look at his attitude from a couple although the early parts of Squall's story mode seem to set it up as a , and he eventually ends up working with
and , the latter half of his story mode reveals that his choice to travel alone isn't because he doesn't trust the other heroes, but because he prefers to help them by taking on the villains by himself and eliminating at least some of them before they can cause the others problems.
More complicated than that, even. He fights alone because he doesn't want the burden of directly protecting people (it's too stressful, and far too easy to make a mistake and get someone killed), and because he trusts his friends to be able to take care of themselves. He knows they're strong and capable, so he doesn't worry about them unless he has to (such as when he saves Zidane and Bartz). He's not opposed to helping others, and in fact he does it without hesitation (running to rescue Bartz with Zidane, for example), but he just finds it's easier to push his limits when he's on his own.
To elaborate, the
confronts Squall half-way through his story and calls him out on his apparent lone wolf attitude, mistaking it as a sign of distrust. After their battle, the Warrior of Light realizes that Squall's intentions aren't as selfish as they appear to be, with the latter providing the above-mentioned explanation for his actions.
Funnily enough, the Warrior of Light also has shades of this. Not in his attitude, but in his actions,
(who irritably observes the comparison in his
when the Warrior of Light confronts him about his choice to go it alone). What ultimately subverts this, however, is the Warrior of Light's , .
there's an Aesop present, and it probably sticks, though he backslides furiously throughout most of the sequel.
, anyone with the "Lone Wolf" trait loses combat effectiveness when in the presence of other allies. Exemplified by Nils Daerden from the first game, who also has no other character to list as a "friend".
Herschel Biggs in
before he eventually accepts Cole Phelps.
Epicly subverted with a big dose of lecture in the beginning of . After the intro sequence and all four character were in a bar, Jet announced that he works alone. Virginia would have none of it, replying directly with "What have you achieved while you were alone?" Make no mistake, it takes a significant chunk of the game for Jet to truly have a meaningful character development, but at least the intent is there.
firmly believes that depending on others is stupid and that you should only count on yourself.
and , not because you need his help.
Geralt repeatedly says in
that he prefers to hunt monsters alone, though (depending on the player's choice) he may —or refuse his help and play this trope completely straight.
has two characters who play this:
from Season 1, and with
in Season 2. Molly plays this trope fairly conventionally, but in Jane's case, it's a
- she's introduced as a cold, pragmatic badass just like Molly was, but as she stays and works with the group,
and it becomes apparent that she just holds this trope as her modus operandi because she's scared of losing people close to her, just like her younger sister, Jaime. With that in mind, it explains why she pulls this trope straight-up and leaves the group after Sarah is eaten alive.
In , the Reason of Musubi is a deliberate attempt to instil this mindset .
Subverted with the Demon Lords DLC mission of .
refuses the help of the main character on account of her "pride as a tamer", but Mirei reminds her that there's nothing she can to rescue her partner Dianamon she has to face the
of the DLC which she can't do without her partner, forcing her to accept the player's help.
Invoked for Arata who
goes on the lam after taking blame for the Tokyo blackout. Nokia calls him out for trying to look cool, but Yuuko correctly identifies it as
an attempt to protect his friends. But when the player meets him again, he admits that
being on the run really sucks but is still willing to keep up the act.
&&&&Web Comics&
: P Bat-Knight, a
of Batman, says this constantly despite being surrounded by sidekicks and etc.
Arvval in . Faevv too shows tendencies of this.
Mr. Thorne lives alone:
Benjamin Prester of . Justified, as it turns out: His
is under sufficient control to enable him to hold down a job in the police taskforce dedicated to handling Mad Scientists, but the emotional trauma he suffers when his new partner is attacked and apparently killed pushes him into a relapse.
And in fact, back in his mad scientist days, he not only didn't work alone, but was the only main scientist to build a true alliance with other mad scientists, his friends.
Jyu Viole Grace from
rejects the option to recruit 7 team members for a team based test and asks the administrator to fail everybody else.
This is because he is working for his boss because
and he really doesn't want to
Ultimately, he becomes an ally of Ja Wangnan and the rest because of his good nature. And that's good, otherwise Ja would have been eviscerated and his organs would have been sold off.
Lalli from
always performs his primary duty, night scouting, alone. In this case, Lalli just doesn't want to have to deal with anyone else breaking his groove when he's trying to sneak in the woods at night. When it comes to his other duties, Lalli is friendly enough, even though his
&&&&Web Original&
In one of 's flash animations, "James and the Chief," James says, "I work alone, or with my old partner... Which is dead... So this can't be done."
Spoofed in , where Strong Bad's
alter ego Dangeresque claims "I work alone! 'Cept when I work with Renaldo, which is all the time!"
Variant in The : the Red Panda works with a sidekick, but adamantly refuses to work with other superheroes or allow them into his city.
In the Third Grade,
had this attitude before Mackenzie saves her from trouble (that the latter caused in order to teach the former how valuble it is to have friends).
&&&&Western Animation&
In , Batman is actually the one to suggest to
that he should join the , but Superman is the one to say "I work alone": An intentional flip of their usual interaction. Cue that annoying gnawing at the back of your head (there's a special shampoo for that). Less than 24 hours ago Batman saved Superman from another
disaster and Supes is right back to the notion that friends don't help in no time. .
have splurged this line about a million times each. In one memorable
moment, Batman uses the fact that he's not an official Justice League member to conduct his own investigation when the official founding members decide to turn themselves in to defuse a tense situation.
And in , Warhawk (a member of the future Justice League) told Terry that his mentor had "never been more than a part-timer". Terry seemed to reflect that, turning down an offer for full-time membership.
Bats has the most extended crime-fighting family in , save possibly the . Nightwing, Robin, Oracle, Batgirl, Spoiler, Huntress, Alfred, the Outsiders, etc. And yet he's constantly trying to sell himself as a lone-wolf-type. At least sometimes he says, "I work best alone."
: In the pilot movie, Buzz takes this attitude after his former partner, Warp Darkmatter, was killed on a mission. It's only after Buzz finds out that Warp
that he manages to get over his guilt and accept his new teammates.
in the pilot and the "Just Us Justice Ducks" two-parter.
: Parodied by Tommy Gilligan, after he quits the organization.
: Parodied by Buttercup, after she adopts a
alter ego (she's also hampered by the "only works at night" thing).
Aqualad and Beast Boy exchange this before Aqualad points out Beast Boy is part of a team and Beast Boy retorts that Aqualad "hangs out with a fish dude".
Robin had an "I work alone now" period in the flashback episode "Go!" It lasted approximately four minutes.
: "Me Grimlock go with you... but me Grimlock go with you — alone!"
expresses this attitude at the start, when he fights crime out of a personal ambition to keep his weapons out of enemy hands. Soon, four other superheroes help him defeat Graviton. Iron Man subsequently proposes the formation of a full-time superhero team, to combat threats one hero can not overcome alone.
became betrayed by his crimefighting partner, , and arrested by SHIELD early on into the series. After he breaks out of jail and clears his name, he decides to chase down Black Widow alone, until
makes him join the Avengers. Even then, he expresses an initial preference for the other Avengers not to join his personal pursuit.
The title character of
doesn't initially warm up to the thought of assisting four rookie superheroes as part of his SHIELD training. Unlike most examples though... he has legitimate reasons .
In , Twilight Sparkle had this attitude in the pilot, with a
, but mostly worked through it thanks to .
In "Daring Don't", Daring Do initially refuses Rainbow Dash's aid due to her reclusive nature, but later needs her to help stop Ahuizotl from using the Rings of Scorchero.
In , the titular character is
who is used to and good enough to work alone on missions, even when offered help. Naturally, he's given a team after a private adventure in the beginning, and quite a few problems occur because they can't coordinate their abilities.
In : Spark of Rebellion, Ezra Bridger says this to Agent Kallus when he accuses him of being a Jedi Padawan training under Kanan Jarrus. Not long after, however, the accusation ends up becoming true.
In "ShiverJack" on , when Captain Hook proposes a team-up with ShiverJack, ShiverJack stops him before he can even finish speaking and then tells him that he works alone.
has a theme song.
Alternative Title(s):
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