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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not al-ways of noble birth, or liberal education.
-- But this description, I confess, does by no means affect the British nation, who may be an example to the whole world for their wisdom, care, and justice in planting col-onies; their liberal endowments for the advancement of religion and learning; their choice of devout and able pas-tors to propagate Christianity; their caution in stocking their provinces with people of sober lives and conversations from this the mother kingdom; their strict regard to the distribution of justice, in supplying the civil administra-tion through all their colonies with officers of the greatest abilities, utter strangers to corruption; and, to crown all, by sending the most vigilant and virtuous governors, who have no other views than the happiness of the people over whom they preside, and the honour of the king their master.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among the fine gentlemen not regularly belonging to the Gradgrind school, there was one of a good family and a better appearance, with a happy turn of humour which had told immensely with the House of Commons on the occasion of his entertaining it with his (and the Board of Directors) view of a railway accident, in which the most careful officers ever known, employed by the most liberal managers ever heard of, assisted by the finest mechanical contrivances ever devised, the whole in action on the best line ever constructed, had killed five people and wounded thirty-two, by a casualty without which the excellence of the whole system would have been positively incomplete.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strait was the gate and narrow was the way; far straiter and narrower than the broad high road paved with vain professions and vain repetitions, motes from other men's eyes and liberal delivery of others to the judgment all cheap materials costing absolutely nothing.
-- 'And of finding a father-in-law who is a capital fellow and a liberal good old boy.
-- In his expressed opinions of all performances in the Art of painting that were completely destitute of merit, Gowan was the most liberal fellow on earth.
-- This arrangement involved the contingent advantage, which perhaps Henry Gowan had not foreseen, that both Mr and Mrs Meagles were more liberal than before to their daughter, when their communication was only with her and her young child: and that his high spirit found itself better provided with money, without being under the degrading necessity of knowing whence it came.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first place, it may be deemed almost superfluous to establish the fact, that among people at large, the business of whaling is not accounted on a level with what are called the liberal professions.
-- nothing but to take hold of the whales bodily, in their entire liberal volume, and boldly sort them that way.
-- Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme!We expand to its bulk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Liberal terms, Mr. Sowerberry, liberal terms?'
-- These civilities would probably be extended much farther, but for a liberal exercise of the Jew's toasting-fork on the heads and shoulders of the affectionate youths who offered them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It has often led him to be liberal and generous, to give his money freely, to display hospitality, to assist his tenants, and relieve the poor.
-- But he is a liberal master, I suppose, and THAT in the eye of a servant comprehends every virtue.'
-- It was acknowledged, however, that he was a liberal man, and did much good among the poor.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prospect of four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity. "Yes, he would give them three thousand pounds: it would be liberal and handsome!It would be enough to make them completely easy.
-- Every thing in her household arrangements was conducted on the most liberal plan, and excepting a few old city friends, whom, to Lady Middleton's regret, she had never dropped, she visited no one to whom an introduction could at all discompose the feelings of her young companions.
-- His mother explained to him her liberal designs, in case of his marrying Miss Morton; told him she would settle on him the Norfolk estate, which, clear of land-tax, brings in a good thousand a-year; offered even, when matters grew desperate, to make it twelve hundred; and in opposition to this, if he still persisted in this low connection, represented to him the certain penury that must attend the match.
-- They settled in town, received very liberal assistance from Mrs. Ferrars, were on the best terms imaginable with the Dashwoods; and setting aside the jealousies and ill-will continually subsisting between Fanny and Lucy, in which their husbands of course took a part, as well as the frequent domestic disagreements between Robert and Lucy themselves, nothing could exceed the harmony in which they all lived together.
-- Mrs. Dashwood was acting on motives of policy as well as pleasure in the frequency of her visits at Delaford; for her wish of bringing Marianne and Colonel Brandon together was hardly less earnest, though rather more liberal than what John had expressed.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her thoughts now were of a more liberal character, and she punctuated them with speculations as to the whereabouts of Drouet.
-- Carrie readily acquiesced, glad to escape the trying situation, and liberal now that she saw a way out.
-- For all the liberal analysis of Spencer and our modern naturalistic philosophers, we have but an infantile perception of morals.
-- He tried to show Carrie that there was no cause for financial alarm, but only congratulation over the chance he would have at the end of the year by taking her rather more frequently to the theatre and by providing a liberal table.
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