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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was his own master, after having been a serf in Europe, and as independent as one can be in the freest country in the world.
-- He had only missed his coveted prize, the DUNCAN, through a cause independent of his will.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is quite true that we did not present ourselves humbly, like your flatterers and parasites, but holding up our heads as befits independent men.
-- 'It seems to me that all you and your friends have said, Mr. Terentieff, and all you have just put forward with such undeniable talent, may be summed up in the triumph of right above all, independent of everything else, to the exclusion of everything else; perhaps even before having discovered what constitutes the right.
-- I'm sorry for Varia, and for Gania too; he isn't half a bad fellow, in spite of his faults, and I shall never forgive myself for not liking him before!I don't know whether I ought to continue to go to the Epanchins' now,' concluded Colia ' I like to be quite independent of others, and of other people's quarrels if I can; but I must think over it.'
-- The man of today is a broader man, so to speak and I declare I believe that is what prevents him from being so self-contained and independent a being as his brother of those earlier days.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was independent of the opinion of his fellows.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Don't you feel how naughty it is of you,' resumed Miss Monflathers, 'to be a wax-work child, when you might have the proud consciousness of assisting, to the extent of your infant powers, the manufactures of your country; of improving your mind by the constant contemplation of the steam-engine; and of earning a comfortable and independent subsistence of from two-and-ninepence to three shillings per week?
-- But quite apart from, and independent of, this source of popularity, Mr Swiveller had another, which promised to be equally enduring, and to lighten his position considerably.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her belief in this was strengthened by the old author whom she met during the second year of her independent life.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neck-ties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But then, what to make of his unearthly complexion, that part of it, I mean, lying round about, and completely independent of the squares of tattooing.
-- But as the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul, therefore it must have been that, in Ahab's case, yielding up all his thoughts and fancies to his one supreme purpose; that purpose, by its own sheer inveteracy of will, forced itself against gods and devils into a kind of self-assumed, independent being of its own.
-- But fortunately the special point I here seek can be established upon testimony entirely independent of my own.
-- The crotch alluded to on a previous page deserves independent mention.
-- Moreover, while in most other animals that I can now think of, the eyes are so planted as imperceptibly to blend their visual power, so as to produce one picture and not two to the brain; the peculiar position of the whale's eyes, effectually divided as they are by many cubic feet of solid head, which towers between them like a great mountain separating two lakes in valleys; this, of course, must wholly separate the impressions which each independent organ imparts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And I only wish we'd a jury of the independent sort, in the house for a week or two,' said the beadle; 'the rules and regulations of the board would soon bring their spirit down for 'em.'
-- There are some promotions in life, which, independent of the more substantial rewards they offer, require peculiar value and dignity from the coats and waistcoats connected with them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To him therefore the succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, independent of what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but small.
-- Lady Middleton had the advantage of being able to spoil her children all the year round, while Sir John's independent employments were in existence only half the time.
-- Elinor, Elinor, they who suffer little may be proud and independent as they like may resist insult, or return mortification but I cannot.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There she found other girls ahead of her, applicants like herself, but with more of that self-satisfied and independent air which experience of the city lends; girls who scrutinised her in a painful manner.
-- Such little arguments were all too frequent, the result of a growth of natures which were largely independent and selfish.
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