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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was very much tired, and disposed to sleep, which my mistress per-ceiving, she put me on her own bed, and covered me with a clean white handkerchief, but larger and coarser than the mainsail of a man-of-war.
-- My mistress was gone about her household affairs, and had locked me in.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That lady acts as mistress of this house, and she is a highly connected lady.
-- He took his end of candle from a shelf, lighted it at another end of candle on the counter, without disturbing the mistress of the shop who was asleep in her little room, and went upstairs into his lodging.
-- From the mistress of the house, the visitor glanced to the house itself.
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 so much more mistress of herself in that outer world of chaos than he was master of himself.
-- She felt more at home with Lady Chatterley, and after all it's the mistress of the house matters most.
-- You may prefer to stay mistress of Wragby.
-- She was very well content to be quite her own mistress: and mistress of her two children, whom she was going to bring up 'prop-erly', whatever that may mean.
-- Hilda loved all the managing and the driving and being mistress of the show.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had a curiously vivid dream that night, and before she had left the son of her old mistress many hours.
-- Having got her mistress into bed, lighted her lamp, and given her good night, Mrs Flintwinch went to roost as usual, saving that her lord had not yet appeared.
-- He put his hands to the back of the wheeled chair, and muttering to himself, slowly wheeled his mistress back to her cabinet.
-- As to street noises, the rumbling of wheels in the lane merely rushed in at the gateway in going past, and rushed out again: making the listening Mistress Affery feel as if she were deaf, and recovered the sense of hearing by instantaneous flashes.
-- During many hours of the short winter days, however, when it was dusk there early in the afternoon, changing distortions of herself in her wheeled chair, of Mr Flintwinch with his wry neck, of Mistress Affery coming and going, would be thrown upon the house wall that was over the gateway, and would hover there like shadows from a great magic lantern.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am to be mistress of it, and manage it as I like, with plenty of servants, so I never need work a bit.
-- You begin at the other end, Meg, dear, but the lessons you learn now will be of use to you by-and-by when John is a richer man, for the mistress of a house, however splendid, should know how work ought to be done, if she wishes to be well and honestly served.'
-- Quite flushed with excitement were their ruddy fac-es, as they swung in the wind, whispering to one another what they had seen, for some peeped in at the dining room windows where the feast was spread, some climbed up to nod and smile at the sisters as they dressed the bride, others waved a welcome to those who came and went on various errands in garden, porch, and hall, and all, from the rosiest full-blown flower to the palest baby bud, offered their trib-ute of beauty and fragrance to the gentle mistress who had loved and tended them so long.
-- 'You'll get over this after a while, and find some lovely accomplished girl, who will adore you, and make a fine mistress for your fine house.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next morning, however, made an alteration; for in a quarter of an hour's tete-a-tete with Mrs. Bennet before breakfast, a conversation begin-ning with his parsonage-house, and leading naturally to the avowal of his hopes, that a mistress might be found for it at Longbourn, produced from her, amid very complaisant smiles and general encouragement, a caution against the very Jane he had fixed on.
-- It now first struck her, that SHE was selected from among her sisters as worthy of being mistress of Hunsford Parsonage, and of assisting to form a quadrille table at Ros-ings, in the absence of more eligible visitors.
-- 'Indeed, Mr. Bennet,' said she, 'it is very hard to think that Charlotte Lucas should ever be mistress of this house, that I should be forced to make way for HER, and live to see her take her place in it!'
-- 'But he paid her not the smallest attention till her grand-father's death made her mistress of this fortune.'
-- They were all of them warm in their ad-miration; and at that moment she felt that to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!
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