mistress是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 女主人； 主妇； 情妇， 情人，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：
-- If my mistress and all her friends can laugh at what I say, so may you too, I should think.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was generally a mistress of the art of dressing well without great expense, and before leaving Moscow she had given her dressmaker three dresses to transform.
-- The mistress is at home.
-- Levin, in his heart, censured this, and did not as yet understand that she was preparing for that period of activity which was to come for her when she would at once be the wife of her husband and mistress of the house, and would bear, and nurse, and bring up children.
-- He saw that, in spite of Agafea Mihalovna's feelings being hurt by a new mistress taking the reins of government out of her hands, Kitty had yet conquered her and made her love her.
-- All had heard that their mistress had come, and that Kapitonitch had let her in, and that she was even now in the nursery, and that their master always went in person to the nursery at nine o'clock, and every one fully comprehended that it was impossible for the husband and wife to meet, and that they must prevent it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw that it was she, with her pretenses, who was the child, and the detached and fearless Leora who was mature, mistress of a real world.
-- Twyford led Martin through the low cool hall and introduced him to five great sons and to his mother, who, since his wife's death, ten years ago, had been mistress of the house.
-- He knew in an unformulated way that Joyce was rich, but after seeing her in gingham, cooking in the kitchen of St. Swithin's almshouse, he did not grasp her position; and he was uncomfortable when, feeling dusty from the laboratory, he came to her great house and found her the soft-voiced mistress of many servants.
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：
-- 'Could she be stuck up, the stupid German, because she was mistress of the house, and had consented as a favour to help her poor lodgers!As a favour!Fancy that!Katerina Ivanovna's father who had been a colonel and almost a governor had some-times had the table set for forty persons, and then anyone like Amalia Ivanovna, or rather Ludwigovna, would not have been allowed into the kitchen.'
-- Amalia Ivanovna ran about the room, shouting at the top of her voice, that she was mistress of the house and that Katerina Ivanovna should leave the lodgings that minute; then she rushed for some reason to collect the silver spoons from the table.
-- Amalia Ivanovna, I humbly beg you as mistress of the house to pay careful attention to what I have to say to Sofya Ivanovna.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your mistress is a littleunwell.
-- 'Shehas been my mistress a long time, sir,' answered Peggotty.
-- 'I only say,' he resumed, addressing me, 'that I disapprove of yourpreferring such company as Mistress Peggotty, and that it is to be 118abandoned.
-- The girl anxiously replied thather mistress was very seldom out now, even in a carriage; that shekept her room; that she saw no company, but would see me.
-- Her mistress was up, she said, and Miss Dartle was with her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most af-fectionate, indulgent father; and had, in consequence of her sister's marriage, been mistress of his house from a very ear-ly period.
-- Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School not of a sem-inary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a rea-sonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, with-out any danger of coming back prodigies.
-- A very gracious invitation was returned, and the evening no longer dreaded by the fair mistress of the man-sion.
-- And ever since she was twelve, Emma has been mistress of the house and of you all.
-- She cast her eye over it, pondered, caught the meaning, read it through again to be quite certain, and quite mistress of the lines, and then passing it to Harriet, sat happily smil-ing, and saying to herself, while Harriet was puzzling over the paper in all the confusion of hope and dulness, 'Very well, Mr. Elton, very well indeed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were, however, no grounds for retaining such a supposition, for the waggon, though going in the direction of Weatherbury, might be going beyond it, and the woman alluded to seemed to be the mistress of some estate.
-- MISTRESS AND MENHalf-an-hour later Bathsheba, in finished dress, and followed by Liddy, entered the upper end of the old hall to find that her men had all deposited themselves on a long form and a settle at the lower extremity.
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