liberal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 慷慨的, 大方的, 胸怀宽大的; n. 自由主义者，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you asked me for another penny, and made it an open question, I'd repent of being so liberal and knock off half-a-crown.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let him say he was, in so much as a word of one syl-lable, and I'll either catch hold of his throat and choke him for half a guinea;' Mr. Cruncher dwelt upon this as quite a liberal offer; 'or I'll out and announce him.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority.
-- If there was a reason for his preferring liberal to conservative views, which were held also by many of his circle, it arose not from his considering liberalism more rational, but from its being in closer accordance with his manner of life.
-- The liberal party said that in Russia everything is wrong, and certainly Stepan Arkadyevitch had many debts and was decidedly short of money.
-- The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.
-- The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service without his legs aching from standing up, and could never make out what was the object of all the terrible and high-flown language about another world when life might be so very amusing in this world.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several of the audience, not being much interested in the missionary's narrative, here left the car; but Elder Hitch, continuing his lecture, related how Smith, junior, with his father, two brothers, and a few disciples, founded the church of the "Latter Day Saints," which, adopted not only in America, but in England, Norway and Sweden, and Germany, counts many artisans, as well as men engaged in the liberal professions, among its members; how a colony was established in Ohio, a temple erected there at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, and a town built at Kirkland; how Smith became an enterprising banker, and received from a simple mummy showman a papyrus scroll written by Abraham and several famous Egyptians.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bishops, generals, liberal rabbis, and musical bankers dined with him.
-- He was suddenly in conference with conductors of symphony orchestras, directors of art-schools, owners of itinerant Chautauquas, liberal governors, ex- clergymen who wrote tasty philosophy for newspaper syndicates, in fact all the proprietors of American intellectuality-- particularly including a millionaire named Minnigen who had recently been elevating the artistic standards of the motion pictures.
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：
-- So that's why I was liberal yesterday芒聙娄.
-- 'I'll prove to you that your white eyelashes may very well be ascribed to the Church of Ivan the Great's being two hundred and fifty feet high, and I will prove it clearly, exactly, progressively, and even with a Liberal tendency!I undertake to!Will you bet on it?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have expended a great deal on my education, and 324have always been as liberal to me in all things, as it was possible tobe.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School not of a sem-inary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a rea-sonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, with-out any danger of coming back prodigies.
-- In general he was judged, throughout the parishes of Donwell and Highbury, with great candour; liberal allowances were made for the little excesses of such a handsome young man one who smiled so often 250 Emmaand bowed so well; but there was one spirit among them not to be softened, from its power of censure, by bows or smiles Mr. Knightley.
-- The apples themselves are the very finest sort for baking, beyond a doubt; all from Donwell some of Mr. Knightley's most liberal supply.
-- So I begged he would not for really as to ours being gone, I could not absolutely say that we had a great many left it was but half a dozen indeed; but they should be all kept for Jane; and I could not at all bear that he should be sending us more, so liberal as he had been already; and Jane said the same.
-- Ex-cept the Sucklings and Bragges, there is not such another nursery establishment, so liberal and elegant, in all Mrs. Elton's acquaintance.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "This is wery liberal on your part, Pip," said Joe, "and it is as such received and grateful welcome, though never looked for, far nor near, nor nowheres.
-- And now, old chap," said Joe, conveying to me a sensation, first of burning and then of freezing, for I felt as if that familiar expression were applied to Miss Havisham,--"and now, old chap, may we do our duty!May you and me do our duty, both on us, by one and another, and by them which your liberal present--have-conweyed--to be--for the satisfaction of mind-of--them as never--" here Joe showed that he felt he had fallen into frightful difficulties, until he triumphantly rescued himself with the words, "and from myself far be it!"
-- "I should think not!Now you are to understand, secondly, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret, until the person chooses to reveal it.
-- Also, I was told what my allowance was to be,--it was a very liberal one,--and had handed to me from one of my guardian's drawers, the cards of certain tradesmen with whom I was to deal for all kinds of clothes, and such other things as I could in reason want.
-- They allowed a very liberal table to Mr. and Mrs. Pocket, yet it always appeared to me that by far the best part of the house to have boarded in would have been the kitchen,--always supposing the boarder capable of self-defence, for, before I had been there a week, a neighboring lady with whom the family were personally unacquainted, wrote in to say that she had seen Millers slapping the baby.
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