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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Is Fort Independence far away?"
-- The fact was that the Governor of Fort Independence was a French sergeant, an old comrade of Parachapee.
-- After this, there was nothing further to do at Fort Independence but to shake hands with the Commandant, and thank him and take leave.
-- CHAPTER XXII THE FLOODA DISTANCE of 150 miles separates Fort Independence from the shores of the Atlantic.
-- My poor brothers in old Caledonia, all who are needy must have a refuge provided for them in another land against their misery, and my dear country must have a colony of her own, for herself alone, somewhere in these seas, where she may find that independence and comfort she so lacks in Europe."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could never put up with the independence and energy of Lizabetha's character.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pony preserved his character for independence and principle down to the last moment of his life; which was an unusually long one, and caused him to be looked upon, indeed, as the very Old Parr of ponies.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The gentleman has his own," Timon stood up for the independence of the guest, proudly pointing to the open traveling bag with silver lids, containing a large number of bottles, brushes, perfumes and all sorts of toilet articles.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here he had no longer that independence and that liberty of gait which he had when in the open seas, and his Nautilus felt itself cramped between the close shores of Africa and Europe.
-- But I had guessed that, whatever the motive which had forced him to seek independence under the sea, it had left him still a man, that his heart still beat for the sufferings of humanity, and that his immense charity was for oppressed races as well as individuals.
-- Should I find down there a whole colony of exiles who, weary of the miseries of this earth, had sought and found independence in the deep ocean?
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their visitors, except those from Barton Park, were not many; for, in spite of Sir John's urgent entreaties that they would mix more in the neighbourhood, and repeated assurances of his carriage being always at their service, the independence of Mrs. Dashwood's spirit overcame the wish of society for her children; and she was resolute in declining to visit any family beyond the distance of a walk.
-- Your mother will secure to you, in time, that independence you are so anxious for; it is her duty, and it will, it must ere long become her happiness to prevent your whole youth from being wasted in discontent.
-- Her thoughts were silently fixed on the irreparable injury which too early an independence and its consequent habits of idleness, dissipation, and luxury, had made in the mind, the character, the happiness, of a man who, to every advantage of person and talents, united a disposition naturally open and honest, and a feeling, affectionate temper.
-- The independence she settled on Robert, through resentment against you, has put it in his power to make his own choice; and she has actually been bribing one son with a thousand a-year, to do the very deed which she disinherited the other for intending to do.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were pretty in the main, some even handsome, with an air of independence and indifference which added, in the case of the more favoured, a certain piquancy.
-- Now, however, in her seventeenth year, Jessica had developed a certain amount of reserve and independence which was not inviting to the richest form of parental devotion.
-- To darken it all, he saw the same indifference and independence growing in his wife, while he looked on and paid the bills.
-- The independence of success now made its first faint showing.
-- Jessica heard this last while walking out of the room, with a toss of her head and a flick of her pretty skirts indicative of the independence and indifference she felt.
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