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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then you suspect—""Some folks who came out free in Her Majesty's ships."
-- Besides, they were going to this new and ill-reputed country without enthusiasm, without conviction, not even of their own free will, but solely at the bidding of destiny.
-- His face was lighted up by the flame, and was free from any look of doubt, and after having glanced to where the first light of dawn whitened the eastern sky, stretched himself near the fire to warm his stiffened limbs.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, as the waves were not so high as at first, being nearer land, I held my hold till the wave abated, and then fetched another run, which brought me so near the shore that the next wave, though it went over me, yet did not so swallow me up as to carry me away; and the next run I took, I got to the main-land, where, to my great comfort, I clambered up the cliffs of the shore and sat me down upon the grass, free from dan-ger and quite out of the reach of the water.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That the hair was her own, she instantaneously felt as well satisfied as Marianne; the only difference in their conclusions was, that what Marianne considered as a free gift from her sister, Elinor was conscious must have been procured by some theft or contrivance unknown to herself.
-- She had no such object for her lingering thoughts to fix on, she left no creature behind, from whom it would give her a moment's regret to be divided for ever, she was pleased to be free herself from the persecution of Lucy's friendship, she was grateful for bringing her sister away unseen by Willoughby since his marriage, and she looked forward with hope to what a few months of tranquility at Barton might do towards restoring Marianne's peace of mind, and confirming her own.
-- In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony to be at Cleveland; and as she returned by a different circuit to the house, feeling all the happy privilege of country liberty, of wandering from place to place in free and luxurious solitude, she resolved to spend almost every hour of every day while she remained with the Palmers, in the indulgence of such solitary rambles.
-- So, I made free to wish her joy."
-- It was an arrangement, however, justified in its effects, if not in its cause; for nothing ever appeared in Robert's style of living or of talking to give a suspicion of his regretting the extent of his income, as either leaving his brother too little, or bringing himself too much; and if Edward might be judged from the ready discharge of his duties in every particular, from an increasing attachment to his wife and his home, and from the regular cheerfulness of his spirits, he might be supposed no less contented with his lot, no less free from every wish of an exchange.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A mind free of any consideration of the problems or forces of the world and actuated not by greed, but an insatiable love of variable pleasure.
-- Her mere experience and the free out-of-door life of the country caused her nature to revolt at such confinement.
-- They were free with the fellows, young and old, about the place, and exchanged banter in rude phrases, which at first shocked her.
-- Here, then, was Carrie, established in a pleasant fashion, free of certain difficulties which most ominously confronted her, laden with many new ones which were of a mental order, and altogether so turned about in all of her earthly relationships that she might well have been a new and different individual.
-- He was referring to some property which he said he had, and which required so much attention, adjustment, and what not, that somehow or other it interfered with his free moral, personal actions.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
-- There was a free nigger there from Ohio a mulatter, most as white as a white man.
-- They call that a govment that can't sell a free nig-ger till he's been in the State six months.
-- Here's a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment, and yet's got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take a hold of a prowling, thiev-ing, infernal, white-shirted free nigger, and ' Pap was agoing on so he never noticed where his old lim-ber legs was taking him to, so he went head over heels over the tub of salt pork and barked both shins, and the rest of his speech was all the hottest kind of language mostly hove at the nigger and the gov- ment, though he give the tub some, too, all along, here and there.
-- Well, the woman fell to talking about how hard times was, and how poor they had to live, and how the rats was as free as if they owned the place, and so forth and so on, and then I got easy again.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime that rascal, Pinocchio, free now from the clutches of the Carabineer, was running wildly across fields and meadows, taking one short cut after another toward home.
-- And to show you what I think of you, you are free from this instant!"
-- To his great surprise, he found himself in a huge net, amid a crowd of fish of all kinds and sizes, who were fighting and struggling desperately to free themselves.
-- "To tell you the truth," answered Pinocchio, "if I must choose, I should much rather go free so I may return home!"
-- Won't you try, pretty little Snail, to free me from this terrible torture?"
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