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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When dinner was done, my master went out to his la-bourers, and, as I could discover by his voice and gesture, gave his wife strict charge to take care of me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You didn't take your wife p. 59for fast and for loose; but for better for worse.
-- RACHAELA candle faintly burned in the window, to which the black ladder had often been raised for the sliding away of all that was most precious in this world to a striving wife and a brood of hungry babies; and Stephen added to his other thoughts the stern reflection, that of all the casualties of this existence upon earth, not one was dealt out with so unequal a hand as Death.
-- Since you have done my wife and myself the honour of drinking our healths and happiness, I suppose I must acknowledge the same; though, as you all know me, and know what I am, and what my extraction was, you won't expect a speech from a man who, when he sees a Post, says "that's a Post," and when he sees a Pump, says "that's a Pump," and is not to be got to call a Post a Pump, or a Pump a Post, or either of them a Toothpick.
-- So, I thank you, on both our parts, for the good-will you have shown towards us; and the best wish I can give the unmarried part of the present company, is this: I hope every bachelor may find as good a wife as I have found.
-- And I hope every spinster may find as good a husband as my wife has found.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I also found my cousin and affianced wife as warm on the subject as was her father.
-- His wife followed, pronounced the same word, with the same ceremonial, then the husband and wife, placing their right hands upon their hearts, bowed profoundly.
-- The rector and his huge wife or servant, I never knew which, stood at the door to see us off.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had nothing to do with Sir Malcolm, who left his nervously hostile, high-spirited wife to rule her own roost, while he went his own way.
-- 'The whole point about the sexual problem,' said Ham-mond, who was a tall thin fellow with a wife and two children, but much more closely connected with a typewrit-er, 'is that there is no point to it.
-- But his wife went off with...with various men...but finally with a collier at Stacks Gate, and I believe she's living there still.'
-- Tommy Dukes was at Wragby, and another man, Harry Winterslow, and Jack Strangeways with his wife Olive.
-- You know he had a wife he didn't get on with, so he joined up in 1915 and was sent to India, I believe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- May I ask you in no impertinent curiosity, but because I have had so much pleasure in your society, may never in this labyrinth of a world exchange a quiet word with you again, and wish to preserve an accurate remembrance of you and yours may I ask you, if I have not gathered from your good wife that you have had other children?'
-- 'Very glad,' said Mr Meagles, coming forward with his wife and Clennam.
-- And your wife another, I'll lay a crown.
-- He had been there five or six months, when he came running to this turnkey one forenoon to tell him, breathless and pale, that his wife was ill.'As anybody might a known she would be,' said the turnkey.
-- 'Doctor,' said the turnkey, 'here's a gentleman's wife in want of you without a minute's loss of time!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was silly, I dare say, but it changed his mind, for I got rather excited, and told the story in my topsy-turvy way, and his wife heard, and said so kindly, 'Take it, Thomas, and oblige the young lady.
-- Why Mr. March paused a minute just there, and after a glance at Meg, who was violently poking the fire, looked at his wife with an inquiring lift of the eye-brows, I leave you to imagine.
-- Congratulating himself that a handsome repast had been ordered that morning, feeling sure that it would be ready to the minute, and indulging in pleasant an-ticipations of the charming effect it would produce, when his pretty wife came running out to meet him, he escorted his friend to his mansion, with the irrepressible satisfaction of a young host and husband.
-- The parlor windows were closed and curtained, no picture of the pretty wife sewing on the piazza, in white, with a distracting little bow in her hair, or a bright-eyed hostess, smiling a shy welcome as she greeted her guest.
-- John was a mild man, but he was human, and after a long day's work to come home tired, hungry, and hopeful, to find a chaotic house, an empty table, and a cross wife was not exactly conductive to repose of mind or manner.
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