hostess是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 女主人， 女主持人，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：
-- The host and hostess were so pleasant, and the big table, with its abundant fare, looked so inviting, that it would have been ungracious not to have seated themselves.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Had we not better allow our hostess to retire?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At Gleeson's corner he saw Hall, who had recently married the stranger's hostess at the "Coach and Horses," and who now drove the Iping conveyance, when occasional people required it, to Sidderbridge Junction, coming towards him on his return from that place.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amongst other things they spoke of the middle ages: some praised that period as far more interesting, far more poetical than our own too sober present; indeed Councillor Knap defended this opin-18 Andersen's Fairy Talesion so warmly, that the hostess declared immediately on his side, and both exerted themselves with unwearied el-oquence.
-- be asked me-chanically, as he saw the Hostess push aside a large sheet of paper.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hostess sat down at the table and took off her gloves.
-- Round the samovar and the hostess the conversation had been meanwhile vacillating in just the same way between three inevitable topics: the latest piece of public news, the theater, and scandal.
-- asked the hostess from the samovar.
-- But Princess Betsy could not endure that tone of his-- "sneering," as she called it, using the English word, and like a skillful hostess she at once brought him into a serious conversation on the subject of universal conscription.
-- Levin was sitting beside his hostess at the tea table, and was obliged to keep up a conversation with her and her sister, who was sitting opposite him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their hostess was a plump woman with an air of worried trustfulness.
-- And once a hostess who of old time had been proud to know him, a hostess whose maiden name was Straufnabel and who had married into the famous old Anglican family of Rosemont when Gottlieb bade her "Auf Wiedersehen" cried out upon him, "Dr. Gottlieb, I'm very sorry, but the use of that disgusting language is not permitted in this house!"
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：
-- It must have been bad for the furniture, but I suppose the hostess took her revenge on the furniture of her friends when, in turn, she visited them.
-- It was the kind of party which makes you wonder why the hostess has troubled to bid her guests, and why the guests have troubled to come.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When his hostess accused him of being "a bit of a beau," he smiled with the vanity of a citizen whose foible is gratified.
-- When Goriot appeared for the first time in this condition, an exclamation of astonishment broke from his hostess at the color of his hair--a dingy olive gray.
-- meaning to imply her doubts as to his paternity; but Father Goriot shrank as if his hostess had touched him with a sword-point.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All were waiting fortheir hostess to signal the end of the morning's festivities.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then tranquilly, with the air of an automaton, without any more expression in one kiss than another, he embraced the host and hostess and their nineteen children.
-- Our hostess offered to pull off our stockings and trousers, according to the custom of the country, but as we graciously declined to be so honored, she left us to our bed of dry fodder.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was hostess to these people...mostly men.
-- She was hostess also to Clifford's occasional aristocratic relations.
-- Linley stayed to dinner, and Connie was the hostess men liked so much, so modest, yet so attentive and aware, with big, wide blue eyes arid a soft repose that sufficiently hid what she was really thinking.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An enthusiastic welcome from three big boys and sev-eral pretty children speedily soothed her ruffled feelings, and leaving Amy to entertain the hostess and Mr. Tudor, who happened to be calling likewise, Jo devoted herself to the young folks and found the change refreshing.
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