one
numberdeterminer
uk
/wʌn/ us
/wʌn/one numberdeterminer (NUMBER)
A1
the number 1
- Trouble broke out in the match when one of the players called a member of the other team a cheat.
- They've got two adopted children and one of their own.
- He is one of the top chefs in Britain.
- When one engine stoppedwe had to turn round and fly home.
- Would you run your idea by me one more time?
- Four parcels came this morningbut only one was for Mark.
- Paint one sideleave it to dryand then paint the other.
- He can't tell one wine from anotherso don't give him any of the expensive stuff.
one numberdeterminer (MEMBER)
one numberdeterminer (FUTURE TIME)
one numberdeterminer (PARTICULAR OCCASION)
- At one point Seeger fell afoul of the US government for his antiwar actions.
- He managed to eke out a living one summer by selling drinks on a beach.
- They met in Paris one enchanted afternoon in early autumn.
- I suspected he wasn't telling me the truthand one day I caught him out when I found some letters he'd written.
- We met one day last year when we got talking in a bar.
one numberdeterminer (SINGLE)
B2
a single thing; not two or more
(all) in one
one numberdeterminer (UNKNOWN PERSON)
one numberdeterminer (EMPHASIS)
one
pronoun
uk
/wʌn/ us
/wʌn/one pronoun (ONE THING/PERSON)
A2
（一群人或一批东西中的）一个
Which one would you like?
你想要哪一个？
Please make a copy for everybody in the office and a few extra ones for the visitors.
请你给办公室里每人印一份，再多印几份给来访者。
French croissants are so much better than the ones we get here.
法国羊角面包比我们这里的好吃得多。
I've received no replies to my job applications - not a single one (= none).
我的求职申请没有任何回复——一个都没有。
not be one to do something UK informal
be one for something informal
one pronoun (COMPARISON)
（表示与另一类似或相关的人或物相对照的）一个
They look so similar it's often difficult to distinguish one from the other.
它们看上去这么相似，常常很难区分开来。
You may have one or the otherbut not both.
这个和那个你可以选一个，但不能都要。
Crime and freedom are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
犯罪和自由如影随形，不可能只取其一。
- During the nighthe had rolled from one side of the bed to the other.
- The two cultures were so utterly disparate that she found it hard to adapt from one to the other.
- If I have to listen to something I don't understandit just goes in one ear and out the other.
- The two sisters are so similar that it's almost impossible to tell one from the other.
- This film begins where the other one leaves off.
one pronoun (ANY PERSON)
C1 formal
- One's primary responsibility is to the legal system.
- One must not assume from this that the defendant is guilty.
- I wondered whether there mightafter allbe some truth in the old chestnut that one's school days are the happiest of one's life.
- Yoga is said to restore one's inner equilibrium.
- Spending time with one's family is never an unalloyed pleasure.
