| 词组 | independent |
| 释义 | independent Independent, when used with a preposition, is usually used with of: • ... detached from and independent of the dark stretches below —Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, 1878 • ... our anxiety to make judges independent of the popular will —Morris R. Cohen, The Faith of a Liberal, 1946 • ... they would ... unanimously bring up to me, independent of any questions I'd ask them, the claim that the morale in the field was ... high —William Ruckelshaus, quoted in NY. Times Mag., 19 Aug. 1973 Perhaps by analogy with independence, independent is occasionally used with from: • ... all... apparently on a par and independent from each other —Newsweek, 1 May 1972 |
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