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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gulliver's TravelsBy Jonathan SwiftDownload free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook.
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-- I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself: and as for the inhabitants, I had reason to be-lieve I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size with him that I saw.
-- 'Lastly, That, upon his solemn oath to observe all the above articles, the said man-mountain shall have a daily al-lowance of meat and drink sufficient for the support of 1724 of our subjects, with free access to our royal person, and other marks of our favour.
-- But I endeavoured to divert him from this design, by many arguments drawn from the topics of policy as well as justice; and I plainly protested, 'that I would never be an instrument of bringing a free and brave people into slavery.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By nonsense he meant fancy; and truly it is probable she was as free from any alloy of that nature, as any human being not arrived at the perfection of an absolute idiot, ever was.
-- are not bonded together for better for worst so fast, but that they can be set free fro' their misfortnet marriages, an' marry ower agen.
-- Spite o' all that, they can be set free for smaller wrongs than mine.
-- No word of a new marriage had ever passed between them; but Rachael had taken great pity on him years ago, and to her alone he had opened his closed heart all this time, on the subject of his p. 63miseries; and he knew very well that if he were free to ask her, she would take him.
-- Bounderby,' said Jem, turning with a smile to Louisa, 'is a noble animal in a comparatively natural state, quite free from the harness in which a conventional hack like myself works.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- replied Captain Bjarne; "we shall leave the Sound, going free with all sails set."
-- After the basaltic eruption was appeased and set at rest, the volcano, the force of which increased with that of the extinct craters, gave free passage to the fiery overflow of lava, and to the mass of cinders and pumice stone, now scattered over the sides of the mountain, like disheveled hair on the shoulders of a Bacchante.
-- I examine the horizon, now perfectly calm, pure, and free from all haze.
-- In consequence, I was always free to do as I liked on a Wednesday.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
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-- Out in the open world, out in the forests of the morning, with lusty and splendid-throated young fellows, free to do as they liked, and above all to say what they liked.
-- But a woman could yield to a man without yielding her inner, free self.
-- 'You've got to have a certain amount of it to be able to live and get along...even to be free to THINK you must have a certain amount of money, or your stomach stops you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A fair girl with rich brown hair hanging free in natural ringlets.
-- But she was a very, very little creature indeed, when she had somehow gained the knowledge that her clasp of her father's hand was to be always loosened at the door which the great key opened; and that while her own light steps were free to pass beyond it, his feet must never cross that line.
-- With no earthly friend to help her, or so much as to see her, but the one so strangely assorted; with no knowledge even of the common daily tone and habits of the common members of the free community who are not shut up in prisons; born and bred in a social condition, false even with a reference to the falsest condition outside the walls; drinking from infancy of a well whose waters had their own peculiar stain, their own unwholesome and unnatural taste; the Child of the Marshalsea began her womanly life.
-- Since she had begun to work beyond the walls, she had found it necessary to conceal where she lived, and to come and go as secretly as she could, between the free city and the iron gates, outside of which she had never slept in her life.
-- There he had an opportunity of refreshing himself with both the bottles at once, looking out at a low blinding wall three feet off, and speculating on the number of Barnacle families within the bills of mortality who lived in such hutches of their own free flunkey choice.
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