independence是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 独立， 自主，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The English fashion of the complete independence of girls was also not accepted, and not possible in Russian society.
-- Anxious to show his independence and to advance, he had refused a post that had been offered him, hoping that this refusal would heighten his value; but it turned out that he had been too bold, and he was passed over.
-- "Though indeed I fail to comprehend how, with the independence you show," he went on, getting hot, "--announcing your infidelity to your husband and seeing nothing reprehensible in it, apparently--you can see anything reprehensible in performing a wife's duties in relation to your husband."
-- I ought myself to be firmer, to maintain my masculine independence of action; or else I shall get into such ways, and she'll get used to them too.... Of course she's not to blame," he told himself.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin had prized the independence of his solitary room.
-- She sat straight now, and when she spoke she had lost the casual independence with which she usually regarded life: "Dear, I'm awfully sorry.
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：
-- One in ten thousand perhaps I speak roughly, approximate-ly is born with some independence, and with still greater independence one in a hundred thousand.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The plan was that she should be brought up for educating others; the very few hundred pounds which she inherit-ed from her father making independence impossible.
-- A man who had been in motion since eight o'clock in the morning, and might now have been still, who had been long talking, and might have been silent, who had been in more than one crowd, and might have been alone! Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world! Could he by a touch of his finger have instantly taken back his wife, there would have been a motive; but his coming would probably prolong rather than break up the party.
-- She felt that, in quitting Donwell, he must be sac-rificing a great deal of independence of hours and habits; that in living constantly with her father, and in no house of his own, there would be much, very much, to be borne with.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That she had never, by look, word, or sign, encouraged a man to approach her that she had felt herself sufficient to herself, and had in the independence of her girlish heart fancied there was a certain degradation in renouncing the simplicity of a maiden existence to become the humbler half of an indifferent matrimonial whole were facts now bitterly remembered.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She instructed her daughter in the tenets of her religion and taught her to aspire to higher powers of intellect and an independence of spirit forbidden to the female followers of Muhammad.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being poor white, they were not even accorded the" grudging respect thatAngus Macintosh's dour independence wrung from neighboring families.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having now asserted my independence in a proper manner, I may come to how do you find yourself, and I hope you're pretty well.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Dorrit thanked him at the moment, and replied that he would think of it; but the Marshal was no sooner gone than he sat down and wrote him a cutting note, in which he remarked that he had never on any former occasion had the honour of receiving his congratulations (which was true, though indeed there had not been anything particular to congratulate him upon), and that he begged, on behalf of himself and family, to repudiate the Marshal's offer, with all those thanks which its disinterested character and its perfect independence of all worldly considerations demanded.
-- Towards Mrs Merdle, the young lady comported herself with great independence and self-possession; but not as yet with any more decided opening of hostilities.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion.'
-- Mr. Brooke looked up and said quickly, Young ladies in America love independence as much as their ancestors did, and are admired and respected for supporting themselves.'
-- With the good sense and stur-dy independence that characterized him, he refused Mr. Laurence's more generous offers, and accepted the place of bookkeeper, feeling better satisfied to begin with an honest-ly earned salary than by running any risks with borrowed money.
-- Amy's definition of Jo's idea of independence was such a good hit that both burst out laughing, and the discussion took a more amiable turn.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether it was the sense of freedom and independence which a rational animal may be supposed to feel when he sits on a table in an easy attitude smoking a pipe, swinging one leg carelessly to and fro, and having his boots cleaned all the time, without even the past trouble of having taken them off, or the prospective misery of putting them on, to disturb his reflections; or whether it was the goodness of the tobacco that soothed the feelings of the Dodger, or the mildness of the beer that mollified his thoughts; he was evidently tinctured, for the nonce, with a spice of romance and enthusiasm, foreign to his general nature.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have de-prived the best years of his life of that independence which was no less his due than his desert.
-- Mrs. Bennet had no turn for economy, and her husband's love of independence had alone prevented their exceeding their income.
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