independent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (of) 独立的， 自主的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Stryver, squaring himself; 'I have less need to make myself agreeable than you have, being more independent in circumstances.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And having, whether he liked or not, taken up for himself the position of an independent man, he carried it off with great tact and good sense, behaving as though he bore no grudge against anyone, did not regard himself as injured in any way, and cared for nothing but to be left alone since he was enjoying himself.
-- He felt that this independent attitude of a man who might have done anything, but cared to do nothing was already beginning to pall, that many people were beginning to fancy that he was not really capable of anything but being a straightforward, good-natured fellow.
-- A schoolfellow of Vronsky's and of the same age, he was a general and was expecting a command, which might have influence on the course of political events; while Vronsky, independent and brilliant and beloved by a charming woman though he was, was simply a cavalry captain who was readily allowed to be as independent as ever he liked.
-- No, what's wanted is a powerful party of independent men like you and me."
-- "Why aren't they independent men?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general route of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway is as follows: Leaving Bombay, it passes through Salcette, crossing to the continent opposite Tannah, goes over the chain of the Western Ghauts, runs thence north-east as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence eastwardly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its terminus at Calcutta.
-- "Is that of the prince, her husband," said the guide; "an independent rajah of Bundelcund."
-- The woman left the town, took refuge with an independent rajah, and there carried out her self-devoted purpose."
-- The government had just succeeded, with some difficulty, in reducing these independent fanatics to its rule.
-- Never!Driven from Vermont, driven from Illinois, driven from Ohio, driven from Missouri, driven from Utah, we shall yet find some independent territory on which to plant our tents.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gottlieb, Terry Wickett, and Dr. Nicholas Yeo, that long- mustached and rustic biologist whom Martin had first taken for a carpenter, formed an independent faction of their own, and however much he disliked the boisterous Wickett, Martin was dragged into it.
-- He's a department-head, isn't he, and yet he keeps independent of Dr. Tubbs.
-- He talked of going on his own, independent of Martin and McGurk, but he was won back when the Trustees murmured that though they really did wish the dear man wouldn't fool with sera, they would provide him with apparatus to kill all the rats he wanted.
-- As you must have seen from my work, I'm perfectly independent of him and entirely at your service, but I know his standing and I follow him, quite humbly."
-- "Some day I'm going to figure out a way of making a lab here pay, by manufacturing sera or something, and I'll put up a couple more buildings on the flat by the lake, and have one absolutely independent place for science--- two hours a day on the commercial end, and say about six for sleeping and a couple for feeding and telling dirty stories.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And you are plagiarists even in that!There isn't a sign of independent life in you!You are made of sper-maceti ointment and you've lymph in your veins instead of blood.
-- By that stupidity I only wanted to put myself into an independent position, to take the first step, to obtain means, and then everything would have been smoothed over by benefits immeasurable in com-parison芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was goingaway at the end of the half-year, if not sooner, and was morespirited and independent than before in my eyes, and thereforemore engaging than before; but beyond this I remember nothing.
-- 'What I have beenthinking of, this month back!Yes, my precious; and I think I shouldbe more independent altogether, you see; let alone my workingwith a better heart in my own house, than I could in anybody else'snow.
-- I was not so savagely independent as to say anythingin reply, but that if ever I borrowed money of any one, I wouldborrow it of her.
-- I drew a picture ofour frugal home, made independent by my labour- sketching-inthe little house I had seen at Highgate, and my aunt in her roomupstairs.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You understand the force of influence pretty well, Har-riet; but I would have you so firmly established in good society, as to be independent even of Hartfield and Miss Woodhouse.
-- He had a comfortable home for her, and Emma imagined a very suf-ficient income; for though the vicarage of Highbury was not large, he was known to have some independent property; and she thought very highly of him as a good-humoured, well-meaning, respectable young man, without any defi-ciency of useful understanding or knowledge of the world.
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