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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It turned out that 'light blue' was an Englishwoman, governess or something, at Princess Bielokonski's, and the other woman was one of the old-maid princesses Bielokonski.
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：
-- "She was a governess in the family of some Roman prince, and the son of the house seduced her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But I would have you know, Miss Edwards,' resumed the governess in a tone of increased severity, 'that you cannot be permitted if it be only for the sake of preserving a proper example and decorum in this establishment that you cannot be permitted, and that you shall not be permitted, to fly in the face of your superiors in this exceedingly gross manner.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus it was with Shenbok and the governess whom he had told about; it was thus with Uncle Gregory; with his father, when he lived in the country, and the illegitimate son Miteuka, who is still living, was born to him.
-- At the head of the table sat old Korchagin, on his left the physician; on his right, a visitor, Ivan Ivanovich Kolosoff, an ex-district commander, and now a bank manager, who was a friend of the family, and of liberal tendencies; further to the left was Miss Rader, governess to Missy's four-year-old sister, with the little girl herself; then to the right, Missy's only brother, Peter, a high-school pupil, on account of whose forthcoming examinations the entire family remained in the city, and his tutor, also a student; then again to the left, Katherine Alexeievna, a forty-year-old girl Slavophile; opposite to her was Michael Sergeievich, or Misha Telegin, Missy's cousin, and at the foot of the table, Missy herself, and beside her, on the table, lay an extra cover.
-- He was disgusted with that self-confident, vulgar, liberal tone of Kolosoff, the bull- like, sensual, figure of old Korchagin, the French phrases of the Slavophile maiden, the ceremonious faces of the governess and the tutor.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And yet I don't know,' the Gnat went on in a careless tone: 'only think how convenient it would be if you could manage to go home without it!For instance, if the governess wanted to call you to your lessons, she would call out "come here ," and there she would have to leave off, because there wouldn't be any name for her to call, and of course you wouldn't have to go, you know.'
-- 'That would never do, I'm sure,' said Alice: 'the governess would never think of excusing me lessons for that.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then Birkin said, in a lighter tone, letting the stress of the contact pass:"Can't you get a good governess for Winifred? somebody exceptional?"
-- Winifred came, and the governess lingered in the rear.
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