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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now mind, you have a mistress instead of a master.
-- The information was put in this form that Liddy might not for a moment suppose her mistress was at all piqued.
-- "What's right week days is right Sundays," replied her mistress in a tone which was a proof in itself.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer's room, and had a snug little chat over some 莽卢卢10 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 cordial and various delicacies reserved for the mistress of the house.
-- The portly Sylvie presently came up to tell her mistress that a girl too pretty to be honest, "dressed like a goddess," and not a speck of mud on her laced cashmere boots, had glided in from the street like a snake, had found the kitchen, and asked for M. Goriot's room.
-- la Vicomtesse de Beauseant through the Marcillacs!_ These words, on which the countess threw ever so slight an emphasis, by reason of the pride that the mistress of a house takes in showing that she only receives people of distinction as visitors in her house, produced a magical effect.
-- "Neither your mistress nor I are at home to that gentleman when he calls," the Count said to Maurice.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw his mistress once before the destined ceremony; but she was bathed in tears, and throwing her-self at his feet, entreated him to spare her, confessing at the same time that she loved another, but that he was poor, and that her father would never consent to the union.
-- But the old man decidedly refused, thinking himself bound in honour to my friend, who, when he found the father inexorable, quitted his country, nor returned un-til he heard that his former mistress was married according to her inclinations.
-- 'I have seen,' he said, 'the most beautiful scenes of my own country; I have visited the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy mountains descend almost perpendicularly to the water, casting black and impenetrable shades, which would cause a gloomy and mournful appearance were it not for the most verdant islands that relieve the eye by their gay appearance; I have seen this lake agitated by a tempest, when the wind tore up whirlwinds of water and gave you an idea of what the water-spout must be on the great ocean; and the waves dash 188 Frankensteinwith fury the base of the mountain, where the priest and his mistress were overwhelmed by an avalanche and where their dying voices are still said to be heard amid the pauses of the nightly wind; I have seen the mountains of La Valais, and the Pays de Vaud; but this country, Victor, pleases me more than all those wonders.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With foreboding, Mammy had brought her young mistress a small package, addressed in a strange hand fromNew Orleans, a package containing a miniature of Ellen, which she flung to the floor with a cry, four letters in herown handwriting to Philippe Robillard, and a brief letter from a New Orleans priest, announcing the death of hercousin in a barroom brawl.
-- If she was only fifteen years old, shewas nevertheless ready for the responsibilities of the mistress of a plantation.
-- "Dear," he said quietly, "I am complimenting your intelligence by asking you to be my mistress without havingfirst seduced you."
-- Prissy rolled her eyes wildly, peeping first at the set face of her mistress and then at the cow which bawledplaintively.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am going to try to get the place of mistress in the new school nearly finished here.
-- "They made themselves my friends," said I, "when they supposed me to have superseded them; and when Sarah Pocket, Miss Georgiana, and Mistress Camilla were not my friends, I think."
-- The schoolhouse where Biddy was mistress I had never seen; but, the little roundabout lane by which I entered the village, for quietness' sake, took me past it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because I am beginning to grow old, and had rather lie at my ease by the fire than run about the house after the mice, my mistress laid hold of me, and was going to drown me; and though I have been lucky enough to get away from her, I do not know what I am to live upon.'
-- 'Why,' said the cock, 'I was just now saying that we should have fine weather for our washing-day, and yet my mistress and the cook don't thank me for my pains, but threaten to cut off my head tomorrow, and make broth of me for the guests that are coming on Sunday!'
-- At last, as they drew near the end of their journey, this treacherous servant threatened to kill her mistress if she ever told anyone what had happened.
-- With her five gold rings at the door she knocks: 'Are you within, good Mistress Fox?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mistress sent her maid for a small dram cup, which held about two gallons, and filled it with drink; I took up the vessel with much difficulty in both hands, and in a most respectful manner drank to her ladyship's health, express-ing the words as loud as I could in English, which made the company laugh so heartily, that I was almost deafened with the noise.
-- I heard a noise behind me like that of a dozen stocking- weavers at work; and turning my head, I found it proceeded from the purring of that animal, who seemed to be three times larger than an ox, as I computed by the view of her head, and one of her paws, while her mistress was feeding and stroking her.
-- The fierceness of this creature's countenance altogether discomposed me; though I stood at the farther end of the table, above fifty feet off; and although my mistress held her fast, for fear she might give a spring, and seize me in her talons.
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