Independence
[ɪndɪ'pend(ə)ns] or [,ɪndɪ'pɛndəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the successful ending of the American Revolution; 'they maintained close relations with England even after independence'.
(noun.) a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail.
(noun.) freedom from control or influence of another or others.
克利夫顿錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference.
(n.) Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.
校對:迈克尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Freedom, liberty, self-direction, exemption from control.
校對:托妮
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Self government. Good enough for a Cuban, but too good for a Filipino.
手打:莎伦
例句/造句/用法:
- With his usual thoughtfulness, he had provided for her independence in this situation. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I wish to leave the poor girls some little independence, as well as a good name. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Amy's definition of Jo's idea of independence was such a good hit that both burst out laughing, and the discussion took a more amiable turn. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Having now asserted my independence in a proper manner, I may come to how do you find yourself, and I hope you're pretty well. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- He fought all through the long War of Independence--seven years--and then appears to have settled down at Stonington, Connecticut. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- My personal independence is as important to me as yours is to you. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You have deprived the best years of his life of that independence which was no less his due than his desert. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- But now my boasted independence was daily instigating me to acts of tyranny, and freedom was becoming licentiousness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- During the years of the American War of Independence there were few signs of any impending explosion in France. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Go to my lawyer (you remember where; you have been there before) and show your independence now, will you? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- A child wearing a green frock on Independence Day seems at night to be wearing a black frock, if standing near powders burning with red, blue, or violet light. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It is in the older and more characteristic English tradition from which the Declaration of Independence derives. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You are the picture of independence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The Declaration of Independence said that all men are born equal. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
校對:斯坦顿