free是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 自由的； 免费的； 免税的； 空闲的vt. 释放，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The third item of consciousness was that of seeing the same sword, perfectly clean and free from blood held vertically in Troy's hand (in the position technically called "recover swords").
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rastignac's first year of study for the preliminary examinations in law had left him free to see the sights of Paris and to enjoy some of its amusements.
-- Young men at his age take no account of obstacles nor of dangers; they see success in every direction; imagination has free play, and turns their lives into a romance; they are saddened or discouraged by the collapse of one of the visionary schemes that have no existence save in their heated fancy.
-- This sensation of physical comfort left his mind free to grapple with the thoughts that assailed him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
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-- I then thought that my father would be unjust if he as-cribed my neglect to vice or faultiness on my part, but I am now convinced that he was justified in conceiving that I should not be altogether free from blame.
-- I saw him too; he was free last night!'
-- His blind and aged father and his gentle sister lay in a noisome dungeon while he enjoyed the free air and the society of her whom he loved.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gerald, his mind never free of the thought of owning a plantation of his own, arranged an introduction, and hisinterest grew as the stranger told how the northern section of the state was filling up with newcomers from theCarolinas and Virginia.
-- I'd gladly give the horses free of charge if I knew they were going to be ridden by boys I know, gentlemen usedto thoroughbreds.
-- It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses.
-- She did not see that Rhett had pried open the prison ofher widowhood and set her free to queen it over unmarried girls when her days as a belle should have been long past.
-- It would have been so much better for the Yankees to pay for thedarkies or even for us to give them the darkies free of charge than to have this happen."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even when I was taken to have a new suit of clothes, the tailor had orders to make them like a kind of Reformatory, and on no account to let me have the free use of my limbs.
-- And he was so very free of the wine that he even called for the other bottle, and handed that about with the same liberality, when the first was gone.
-- I was not free from apprehension that he would come back to propound through the gate, "And sixteen?"
-- "Pip is that hearty welcome," said Joe, "to go free with his services, to honor and fortun', as no words can tell him.
-- We became particularly hot upon some boorish sneer of Drummle's, to the effect that we were too free with our money.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
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-- Then he took the string in his hand, and drove off the pig by a side path; while Hans went on the way homewards free from care.
-- Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his trou-bles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.
-- She went on a little farther, till she came to a free full of apples.
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