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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His wife seemed better; his daughter Miriam found an excellent piano teacher; the boy Robert entered college that autumn; they had a spacious though decrepit house; the relief from the droning and the annually repeated, inevitable routine of the classroom was exhilarating; and Gottlieb had never in his life worked so well.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In 1864 he lost his first wife and his brother Mihail.
-- He was very drunk: and had dropped asleep on the bench; every now and then, he began as though in his sleep, cracking his fingers, with his arms wide apart and the up-per part of his body bounding about on the bench, while he hummed some meaningless refrain, trying to recall some such lines as these: 'His wife a year he fondly loved His wife a a year he fondly loved.'
-- Hence the pot-house!Honoured sir, a month ago Mr. Le-beziatnikov gave my wife a beating, and my wife is a very different matter from me!Do you understand?
-- A month ago when Mr. Lebeziatnikov beat my wife with his own hands, and I lay drunk, didn't I suffer?
-- Know then that my wife was educated in a high-class school for the daughters of noble-men, and on leaving she danced the shawl dance before the governor and other personages for which she was presented with a gold medal and a certificate of merit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him all I knew, but hewould have believed anything I might have taken it into my headto impart to him; for he had a profound veneration for my abilities,and informed his wife in my hearing, on that very occasion, that Iwas 'a young Roeshus'- by which I think he meant prodigy.
-- Thelandlord in his shirt-sleeves, leaning against the bar window-frame; his wife looking over the little half-door; and I, in some 157confusion, looking up at them from outside the partition.
-- The keeper of this bookstall,who lived in a little house behind it, used to get tipsy every night,and to be violently scolded by his wife every morning.
-- 'My late wife loved hersecond husband, madam,' said Mr. Murdstone, 'and trustedimplicitly in him.'
-- It iswell for you, John, that your cousin is the wife of the Doctor.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some people even talked of a promise to his wife on her deathbed, and others of the son and the uncle not letting him.
-- Poor Mr. El-ton!You like Mr. Elton, papa, I must look about for a wife for him.
-- They lived beyond their income, but still it was nothing in comparison of Enscombe: she did not cease to love her husband, but she wanted at once to be the wife of Captain Weston, and Miss Churchill of Enscombe.
-- Captain Weston, who had been considered, especially by the Churchills, as making such an amazing match, was proved to have much the worst of the bargain; for when his wife died, after a three years' marriage, he was rather a poorer man than at first, and with a child to maintain.
-- She had taken up a wrong idea, fancying it was a mother and daughter, a son and son's wife, who all lived together; but when it appeared that the Mr. Martin, who bore a part in the narrative, and was always mentioned with approbation for his great good-nature in doing something or other, was a single man; that there was no young Mrs. Martin, no wife in the case; she did suspect danger to her poor little friend from all this hospi-tality and kindness, and that, if she were not taken care of, she might be required to sink herself forever.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was at the brightest period of masculine growth, for his intellect and his emotions were clearly separated: he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the stage wherein they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and family.
-- "Ah, when I and my wife were married at Norcombe Church," said the old maltster, not pleased at finding himself left out of the subject, "we were called the handsomest couple in the neighbourhood everybody said so."
-- Well enough, but a poor gawkhammer mortal," the wife replied.
-- "And if I can believe in any way that I shall make you a good wife I shall indeed be willing to marry you.
-- The ridge was in a cutting, so that she was very near the husband and wife before she became visible.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- la Comtesse de l'Ambermesnil, a widow of six and thirty, who was awaiting the final settlement of her husband's affairs, and of another matter regarding a pension due to her as the wife of a general who had died "on the field of battle."
-- He had never had either wife or daughter; excesses had reduced him to this sluggish condition; he was a sort of human mollusk who should be classed among the capulidoe, so one of the dinner contingent, an _employe_ at the Museum, who had a pretty wit of his own.
-- She went to the Bouffons or to the Opera with M. de Beauseant and M. d'Ajuda-Pinto; and M. de Beauseant, like a well-bred man of the world, always left his wife and the Portuguese as soon as he had installed them.
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