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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a class mistress herself, in Willey Green Grammar School, as she had been for some years.
-- "I'm sure a mistress is more likely to be faithful than a wife just because she is her own mistress.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eighteen, sir: I came when the mistress was married, to wait on her; after she died, the master retained me for his housekeeper.
-- Well, the conclusion was, that my mistress grumbled herself calm; and Mr. Earnshaw told me to wash it, and give it clean things, and let it sleep with the children.
-- Miss Cathy and he were now very thick; but Hindley hated him: and to say the tru th I did the same; and we plagued and went on with him shamefully: for I wasn't reasonable enough to feel my injustice, and the mistress never put in a word on his behalf when she saw him wronged.
-- The mistress visited her often in the interval, and commenced her plan of reform by trying to raise her self respect with fine clothes and flattery, which she took readily; so that, instead of a wild, hatless little savage jumping into the house, and rushing to squeeze us all breathless, there 'lighted from a handsome black pony a very dignified person, with brown ringlets falling from the cover of a feathered beaver, and a long cloth habit, which she was obliged to hold up with both hands that she might sail in.
-- Mr. Earnshaw carved bountiful platefuls, and the mistress made them merry with lively talk.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he was chaste, and wished to preserve his chastity till marriage, his relatives were anxious about his health, and his mother, so far from being mortified, rather rejoiced when she learned that he had become a real man, and had enticed the French mistress of some friend of his.
-- This was, as Nekhludoff afterward learned, Maslova's mistress and a witness against her.
-- The mistress of the house, Sophia Vasilievna, was an invalid.
-- Fanirin told his driver to follow him, and he began to relate to Nekhludoff how the mistress of so-and-so had made millions on 'Change, how so-and-so had sold, and another had bought, his wife.
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