governess是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 女家庭教师，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him.
-- The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen- maid, and the coachman had given warning.
-- It's true it's bad HER having been a governess in our house.
-- Even now, in the short time she had been in the nursery, the English governess and Matrona Philimonovna had succeeded in putting several questions to her, which did not admit of delay, and which only she could answer: "What were the children to put on for their walk?
-- After talking a little of her old governess and her peculiarities, she questioned him about his life.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What made it all so difficult was that Dounia received a hundred roubles in advance when she took the place as governess in their family, on condition of part of her salary being deducted every month, and so it was im-possible to throw up the situation without repaying the debt.
-- No, Dounia was not that sort when I knew her and 芒聙娄 she is still the same, of course!Yes, there's no denying, the Svid-riga脙炉lovs are a bitter pill!It's a bitter thing to spend one's life a governess in the provinces for two hundred roubles, but I know she would rather be a nigger on a plantation or a Lett with a German master than degrade her soul, and her mor-al dignity, by binding herself for ever to a man whom she does not respect and with whom she has nothing in com-mon for her own advantage.
-- 'I 芒聙娄 was acquainted 芒聙娄 my sister was governess in his family.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in Mr. Woodhouse's family, less as a governess than a friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma.
-- 'She had engaged to go as governess to Mrs. Smallridge's children a dear friend of Mrs. Elton's a neighbour of Maple Grove; and, by the bye, I wonder how Mrs. Elton bears the disappointment?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You see, Farmer Oak, she's so good-looking, and an excellent scholar besides she was going to be a governess once, you know, only she was too wild.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he was not going to marry just anyone, as Mr.Calvert had done, taking to wife the Yankee governess of his motherless children.
-- Everyone was very polite and kind toher because he felt sorry for her, but no one could forget that she had compounded her initial error of birth by beingthe governess of Mr. Calvert's children.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A convenient apartment was provided for her at court: she had a sort of governess ap-pointed to take care of her education, a maid to dress her, and two other servants for menial offices; but the care of me was wholly appropriated to herself.
-- A coach was allowed to Glumdalclitch and me, wherein her governess frequently took her out to see the town, or go among the shops; and I was always of the party, carried in my box; although the girl, at my own desire, would often take me out, and hold me in her hand, that I might more conveniently view the houses and the people, as we passed along the streets.
-- One day the governess ordered our coachman to stop at several shops, where the beggars, watching their opportunity, crowded to the sides of the coach, and gave me the most horrible spec-tacle that ever a European eye beheld.
-- But a more dangerous accident happened to me in the same garden, when my little nurse, believing she had put me in a secure place (which I often entreated her to do, that I might enjoy my own thoughts,) and having left my box at home, to avoid the trouble of carrying it, went to another part of the garden with her governess and some ladies of her acquaintance.
-- In this exercise I once met an accident, which had like to have cost me my life; for, one of the pages having put my boat into the trough, the governess who attended Glumdal-clitch very officiously lifted me up, to place me in the boat: but I happened to slip through her fingers, and should in-fallibly have fallen down forty feet upon the floor, if, by the luckiest chance in the world, I had not been stopped by a corking-pin that stuck in the good gentlewoman's stomach-er; the head of the pin passing between my shirt and the waistband of my breeches, and thus I was held by the mid-dle in the air, till Glumdalclitch ran to my relief.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Margaret found a place as nursery governess and felt rich with her small salary.
-- I am a governess myself.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Has your governess left you?'
-- 'Aye, no doubt; but that is what a governess will prevent, and if I had known your mother, I should have advised her most strenuously to engage one.
-- I always say that nothing is to be done in education without steady and regular instruc-tion, and nobody but a governess can give it.
-- 'There is a lady, it seems, a Mrs. Younge, who was some time ago governess to Miss Darcy, and was dismissed from her charge on some cause of disapprobation, though he did not say what.
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