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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There nature was still mistress of the products and water, and great trees where the woodman's ax was as yet unknown, and the squatters, then five in number, could not struggle against her.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His connection with the Stapletons can be traced for several years, as far back as the schoolmaster-ing days, so that he must have been aware that his master and mistress were really husband and wife.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I once wrote to your mistress from abroad, but she did not reply.
-- When your master and mistress return, my man, tell them that General Ivolgin and Prince Muishkin desired to present themselves, and that they were extremely sorry, excessively grieved ...' Just then another person belonging to the household was seen at the back of the hall.
-- 'Would you believe,' said the mistress of the house, sud-denly addressing the prince, 'would you believe that that man has not even spared my orphan children?
-- A maid opened the door for the prince (Nastasia's ser-vants were all females) and, to his surprise, received his request to announce him to her mistress without any aston-ishment.
-- 'The prince will begin by singing us a fashionable ditty,' remarked Ferdishenko, and looked at the mistress of the house, to see what she would say.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alice made no very powerful effort to control her merriment; and even the dark, thoughtful eye of Cora light-ed with a humor that it would seem, the habit, rather than the nature, of its mistress repressed.
-- Alice trembled violently, and there was an instant during which she bent her face aside, yielding to the emotions com-mon to her sex; but they quickly passed away, leaving her mistress of her deportment, if not of her affections.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That he might make his appearance before his mistress in the true style of a cavalier, he borrowed a horse from the farmer with whom he was domiciliated, a choleric old Dutchman of the name of Hans Van Ripper, and, thus gallantly mount-ed, issued forth like a knight- errant in quest of adventures.
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：
-- As a mistress she did not then exist for him, but only as a model; and then there were long hours in which they lived side by side in silence.
-- I do not know how I have deserved to have a wife who was the perfect friend and helpmate, the perfect mistress and the perfect mother."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though this was a concerted plot between Miss Sophy and her sister, originating in humane intentions and having for its object the inducing Mr Swiviller to declare himself in time, it failed in its effect; for Miss Jane being one of those young ladies who are prematurely shrill and shrewish, gave such undue importance to her part that Mr Swiviller retired in dudgeon, resigning his mistress to Mr Cheggs and conveying a defiance into his looks which that gentleman indignantly returned.
-- 'I would that I had been my own mistress too,' said Dick, 'before I had ever entertained a thought of you.
-- The unfortunate Kit looked at his young mistress harder and harder, and with eyes growing wider and wider, but was perfectly motionless and silent.
-- 'Well, so your old master and young mistress have gone?'
-- To set the mind of his mistress at rest, he took a sip (amounting in quantity to a pint or thereabouts) from the stone bottle, and then smacked his lips, winked his eye, and nodded his head.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then came the sauntering through the rooms in dressing-gown, looking through the windows; the languid quarrels; then the perfuming of her body and hair, the trying o n of dresses, and the quarrels with the mistress which they occasioned; contemplating herself in the mirror, rouging her face, darkening her eyebrows.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 2Mrs. John Dashwood now installed herself mistress of Norland; and her mother and sisters-in-law were degraded to the condition of visitors.
-- Elinor did feel a little ashamed of her brother; and was not sorry to be spared the necessity of answering him, by the arrival of Mrs. Jennings's servant, who came to tell her that his mistress waited for them at the door.
-- "Certainly, ma'am," replied Elinor, not hearing much of what she said, and more anxious to be alone, than to be mistress of the subject.
-- Her apprehensions once raised, paid by their excess for all her former security; and the servant who sat up with her, for she would not allow Mrs. Jennings to be called, only tortured her more, by hints of what her mistress had always thought.
-- Their man-servant had been sent one morning to Exeter on business; and when, as he waited at table, he had satisfied the inquiries of his mistress as to the event of his errand, this was his voluntary communication "I suppose you know, ma'am, that Mr. Ferrars is married."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He paid, if anything, more attention to his old friend than usual, and yet in no way held him up to that subtle ridicule which a lover in favour may so secretly practise before the mistress of his heart.
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