一道OG16 verbal 题

KathyluCD

Recently discovered fossil remains strongly suggest that theAustralian egg-laying mammals of today are a branch of the main stem ofmammalian evolution rather than developing independently from a commonancestor of mammals more than 220 million years ago.

                A.            rather than developing independentlyfrom

                B.            rather than a type that developedindependently from

                C.            rather than a type whose developmentwas independent of

                D.            instead of developing independentlyfrom

                E.            instead of a development that wasindependent of

我的问题是关于C 选项：它的问题是除了 whose development was independent of 没有developed independently from 简洁外，OG 解释中还提到 idiom 搭配中 independent of 和 independently from 的语义不同。

但找了很多词典和Manhattan 的idiom 章节都没有找到它们的区别。

求高手指点。

谢谢

南十紫星

independent of 不依赖…,独立于
independent from 从...中独立出来
我觉得细微的语义差别很难分清楚的，这道题除了rather than、前后比较保持平行之外这个考点外，主要还是看简洁

vivi00

Ron的回答：

independent of is used with processes that occur with little bearing on each other. for instance:
the decomposition of this particular chemical is independent of temperature.

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independent from is used for the independence of entities such as people or nations.
he may seem innocent, but he has been independent from his parents since he was 13.
Finland has ben independent from Russia since 1917.