wife是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 妻子， 夫人， 太太，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There's another fellow,' muttered Scrooge; who over-heard him: 'my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas.
-- The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor's house-hold should; and even the little tailor, whom he had fined five shillings on the previous Monday for being drunk and bloodthirsty in the streets, stirred up to-morrow's pudding in his garret, while his lean wife and the baby sallied out to buy the beef.
-- 'Belle,' said the husband, turning to his wife with a smile,' I saw an old friend of yours this afternoon.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I was say-ing ' Her look so discomposed him that he stopped, wan-dered, and began anew: 'As I was saying; if Monsieur Manette had not died; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared; if he had been spirited away; if it had not been difficult to guess to what 32 A tale of two citiesdreadful place, though no art could trace him; if he had an enemy in some compatriot who could exercise a privilege that I in my own time have known the boldest people afraid to speak of in a whisper, across the water there; for instance, the privilege of filling up blank forms for the consignment of any one to the oblivion of a prison for any length of time; if his wife had implored the king, the queen, the court, the clergy, for any tidings of him, and all quite in vain; then the history of your father would have been the history of this unfortunate gentleman, the Doctor of Beauvais.'
-- The eyes of Monsieur Defarge were studying his wife at her knitting when the elderly gentleman advanced from his corner, and begged the favour of a word.
-- For, I tell you,' here he addressed his wife once more, 'I won't be gone agin, in this manner.
-- His wife explained that she had merely 'asked a bless-ing.'
-- Which Farmer-General, carrying an appro-priate cane with a golden apple on the top of it, was now among the company in the outer rooms, much prostrated before by mankind always excepting superior mankind of the blood of Monseigneur, who, his own wife included, looked down upon him with the loftiest contempt.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we die so at least says the student, for whom my wife does the washing we shall fly about as light as a feather from one such a star to the other.
-- He was now in the heart of the wife of this worthy gentle-man.
-- Just at that moment the merry old man came in who lived up a-top of the house all alone; for he had nei-ther wife nor children but he liked children very much, and knew so many fairy tales, that it was quite delightful.
-- Thus passed many years, and he was now an old man, and sat with his old wife under the blooming tree.
-- So there they both sat, like a king and a queen, under the fragrant tree, that looked ex-actly like an elder: the old man told his wife the story of 'Old Nanny,' as it had been told him when a boy.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him.
-- This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it.
-- The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days.
-- And noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold-colored morocco.
-- And again every detail of his quarrel with his wife was present to his imagination, all the hopelessness of his position, and worst of all, his own fault.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg was not known to have either wife or children, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual.
-- The old rajah was not dead, then, since he rose of a sudden, like a spectre, took up his wife in his arms, and descended from the pyre in the midst of the clouds of smoke, which only heightened his ghostly appearance.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But so far as possible have everything in sanitary- looking white-- and think of the color-schemes you can evolve, or the good wife for you, if she be one blessed with artistic tastes!Rich golden or red cushions, in a Morris chair enameled the purest white!A floor-covering of white enamel, with just a border of delicate rose!Recent and unspotted numbers of expensive magazines, with art covers, lying on a white table!Gentlemen, there is the idea of imaginative salesmanship which I wish to leave with you; there is the gospel which I hope to spread in my fresh field of endeavor, the New Idea Instrument Company of Jersey City, where at any time I shall be glad to see and shake by the hand any and all of you."
-- His study was a bareness surrounding a large, rusty wood-stove, and the witnesses, the pastor's wife and an old German who had been shoveling walks, sat on the wood-box and looked drowsy.
-- My wife has deserted me.
-- II Max Gottlieb's wife was thick and slow-moving and mute; at sixty she had not learned to speak easy English; and her German was of the small-town bourgeois, who pay their debts and over-eat and grow red.
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