niece是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 侄女， 甥女，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Gardiner then rallied her niece on Wickham's de-sertion, and complimented her on bearing it so well.
-- When my niece Georgiana went to Ramsgate last summer, I made a point of her having two men-servants go with her.
-- Mrs. Gardiner looked at her niece with a smile, but Eliz-abeth could not return it.
-- Her niece was, therefore, obliged to submit, and they took their way towards the house on the opposite side of the river, in the nearest direction; but their progress was slow, for Mr. Gardiner, though seldom able to indulge the taste, was very fond of fishing, and was so much engaged in watching the occasional appearance of some trout in the water, and talking to the man about them, that he advanced but little.
-- The suspicions which had just arisen of Mr. Dar-cy and their niece directed their observation towards each with an earnest though guarded inquiry; and they soon drew from those inquiries the full conviction that one of them at least knew what it was to love.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole was tied up for the benefit of this child, who, in occasional visits with his father and mother at Norland, had so far gained on the affections of his uncle, by such attractions as are by no means unusual in children of two or three years old; an imperfect articulation, an earnest desire of having his own way, many cunning tricks, and a great deal of noise, as to outweigh all the value of all the attention which, for years, he had received from his niece and her daughters.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tell him I'll have his niece all safe before he can get to town.
-- Why, he'll say, 'It's a great pity, but my church mat-ters has got to get along the best way they can; for my niece has been exposed to the dreadful pluribus-unum mumps, and so it's my bounden duty to set down here and wait the three months it takes to show on her if she's got it.'
-- 'Well, when my niece give it to me to keep for her I took and hid it inside o' the straw tick o' my bed, not wishin' to bank it for the few days we'd be here, and considerin' the bed a safe place, we not bein' used to niggers, and suppos'n' 'em honest, like servants in England.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Miss Dorrit,' answered Rigaud, 'the little niece of Monsieur Frederick, whom I have known across the water, is attached to the prisoner.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aunt March was very angry, for she had set her heart on having her pretty niece make a fine match, and something in the girl's happy young face made the lonely old woman feel both sad and sour.
-- 'No, it wouldn't,' returned Jo, 'I neither like, respect, nor admire Tudor, though his grandfather's uncle's nephew's niece was a third cousin to a lord.
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