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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The Wolves are a free people,' said Father Wolf.
-- After that inspection the cubs are free to run where they please, and until they have killed their first buck no excuse is accepted if a grown wolf of the Pack kills one of them.
-- What have the Free People to do with a man's cub?'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
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-- 'Even your traditions make the case in my favor, Ch-ingachgook,' he said, speaking in the tongue which was known to all the natives who formerly inhabited the coun-try between the Hudson and the Potomac, and of which we shall give a free translation for the benefit of the reader; endeavoring, at the same time, to preserve some of the pe-culiarities, both of the individual and of the language.
-- The ingenuous Alice gazed at his free air and proud carriage, as she would have looked upon some precious relic of the Grecian chisel, to which life had been imparted by the intervention of a miracle; while Heyward, though accustomed to see the perfection of form which abounds among the uncorrupted natives, openly ex-pressed his admiration at such an unblemished specimen of the noblest proportions of man.
-- Surely, in this hidden spot we are safe, we are secret, free from injury; we will hope everything from those generous men who have risked so much already in our behalf.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
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在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was the only woman of the three whose face was free of make-up, and by contrast with the others she seemed simple and unaffected.
-- Now that I was free from the spectacle of Mrs. Strickland's distress I could consider the matter more calmly.
-- His fellow-painters made no secret of their contempt for his work, but he earned a fair amount of money, and they did not hesitate to make free use of his purse.
-- I can't overcome my desire, but I hate it; it imprisons my spirit; I look forward to the time when I shall be free from all desire and can give myself without hindrance to my work.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, we are free to roast ourselves at Granite House!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, the crowds for ever passing and repassing on the bridges (on those which are free of toll at last), where many stop on fine evenings looking listlessly down upon the water with some vague idea that by and by it runs between green banks which grow wider and wider until at last it joins the broad vast sea where some halt to rest from heavy loads and think as they look over the parapet that to smoke and lounge away one's life, and lie sleeping in the sun upon a hot tarpaulin, in a dull, slow, sluggish barge, must be happiness unalloyed and where some, and a very different class, pause with heavier loads than they, remembering to have heard or read in old time that drowning was not a hard death, but of all means of suicide the easiest and best.
-- Free of the room, the boy was not slow in taking his departure; when he had gone, and the child was occupied in clearing the table, the old man said:'I haven't seemed to thank you, sir, for what you have done to-night, but I do thank you humbly and heartily, and so does she, and her thanks are better worth than mine.
-- Do you not think that what I have seen of you and this little creature to-night must have an interest not wholly free from pain?'
-- To-morrow morning, dear, we'll turn our faces from this scene of sorrow, and be as free and happy as the birds.'
-- The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You were stung by the nettles, I suppose," she said, arranging with her free hand her loosened braid, breathing heavily, and looking up into his eyes.
-- There is a point in the love between man and woman when that love reaches its zenith; when it is free from consciousness, reason and sensuality.
-- "No, no; I must free myself from all these false relations with the Korchagins, with Maria Vasilievna, with the inheritance and all the rest," he thought.
-- Then he was a courageous, free man, before whom opened endless possibilities; now he felt himself caught in the tenets of a stupid, idle, aimless, miserable life, from which there was no escape; aye, from which, for the most part, he would not escape.
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