汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 单枪匹马
单枪匹马 (單槍匹馬)
lit. single spear and horse (idiom); fig. single-handed / unaccompanied
Originally refers to the battle alone when fighting / No one helps with metaphorical action
比喻不依助于人,单独行动单枪匹马,杀出重围|他单枪匹马,闯荡江湖。
() dān/chán/shàn () qiāng () mǎ
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

单枪匹马继续英勇顽强地战斗。

She gallantly battled on alone.

内格罗蓬特不必单枪匹马地进行斗争。

Negroponte won't have to fight alone.

单枪匹马被围剿,但我打败了他们。

I was alone and surrounded and I beat them.

信实集团并非单枪匹马往零售行业里面冲杀。

Reliance is not alone in trying to muscle in on these shops' business.

德国文豪歌德曾经说过,“单枪匹马总归无力,合群永远是仁者的最高需要。”

The German literary giant Goethe once said, “Whatever man lays hold of and deals with, the individual is not enough. Society remains the highest need of any honest man.”

统合综效。这一条是创造性合作习惯,合作努力往往要比单枪匹马获得更多。

Synergize. This is the habit of creative cooperation: the principle that collaborating towards attaining a purpose often achieves more, than could be achieved by individuals working independently.

反倒是赵云,单枪匹马七进七出,把小阿斗救了出来,这不是女人的母性是什么?

Ironically it was Zhao Yun who single handedly rode and saved Ah Dou, if this isn't maternal instinct, what would it be?

美国官员说,结果,他们根本不知道帕迪拉到底是单枪匹马,还是在美国有一伙同党。

As a result, U.S. officials say, they simply do not know whether Padilla was a lone Wolf, or had a network of confederates in America.

但对于单枪匹马递送信件的邮差来说,网络简直就是三千里加急用的驿站快报,使之望尘莫及。

But the internet just might send it the way of the pony express.