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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were carefully removed by Lord Glenarvan, and separated and spread out on the table before the eager gaze of his wife and friends.
-- Perhaps this ill-fated Captain Grant had a wife and children," suggested Lady Helena.
-- Lord Glenarvan did not forget that his wife was the daughter of a great traveler, and he thought it likely that she would inherit her father's predilections.
-- "The wife of Lord Glenarvan, of Malcolm Castle, that put an announcement in the TIMES about the shipwreck of the BRITANNIA?"
-- Harry Grant lost his wife when Robert was born, and during his long voyages he left his little ones in charge of his cousin, a good old lady.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In spite of his considerable wealth he was simple in his personal tastes, and his indoor servants at Baskerville Hall consisted of a married couple named Barrymore, the husband act-ing as butler and the wife as housekeeper.
-- So far as I know, he and his wife are as respectable a couple as any in the county.'
-- 'He and his wife had five hundred pounds each.'
-- 'My wife is expecting me.'
-- My wife and I will be happy, Sir Henry, to stay with you until you have made your fresh arrangements, but you will understand that under the new conditions this house will require a considerable staff.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are people who know everyone that is, they know where a man is employed, what his salary is, whom he knows, whom he married, what money his wife had, who are his cousins, and second cousins, etc., etc.
-- The general was lord of a flourishing family, consisting of his wife and three grown-up daughters.
-- He had married young, while still a lieutenant, his wife being a girl of about his own age, who possessed neither beauty nor education, and who brought him no more than fifty souls of landed property, which little estate served, however, as a nest-egg for far more important accumulations.
-- The general never regretted his early mar-riage, or regarded it as a foolish youthful escapade; and he so respected and feared his wife that he was very near loving her.
-- While still young the wife had been able to make important friends among the aristocracy, partly by virtue of her family descent, and part-ly by her own exertions; while, in after life, thanks to their wealth and to the position of her husband in the service, she took her place among the higher circles as by right.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have set my heart on keep-ing her in my own house, for I love her better even than my own wife Clytemnestra, whose peer she is alike in form and feature, in understanding and accomplishments.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once in a while he would meet a woman whose youth, sprightliness, and humour would make his wife seem rather deficient by contrast, but the temporary dissatisfaction which such an encounter might arouse would be counterbalanced by his social position and a certain matter of policy.
-- On this account he still devoted some time to showing his wife about--time which would have been wearisome indeed if it had not been for the people he would meet and the little enjoyments which did not depend upon her presence or absence.
-- His wife never possessed the virtues which would win the confidence and admiration of a man of his nature.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The judge said he could hug him for them words; so he cried, and his wife she cried again; pap said he'd been a man that had always been misunderstood before, and the judge said he believed it.
-- The judge's wife she kissed it.
-- He used to marry a new wife every day, and chop off her head next morn- ing.
-- He was thinking about his wife and his children, away up yonder, and he was low and homesick; because he hadn't ever been away from home before in his life; and I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n.
-- But this time I somehow got to talking to him about his wife and young ones; and by and by he says: 'What makes me feel so bad dis time 'uz bekase I hear sumpn over yonder on de bank like a whack, er a slam, while ago, en it mine me er de time I treat my little 'Liza-beth so ornery.
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