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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man chafes at having to stay away from his wife even for a single month, when he is on shipboard, at the mercy of wind and sea, but it is now nine long years that we have been kept here; I cannot, therefore, blame the Achaeans if they turn restive; still we shall be shamed if we go home empty after so long a stay therefore, my friends, be patient yet a little longer that we may learn whether the prophesyings of Calchas were false or true.
-- He showed us favourable signs by flashing his lightning on our right hands; therefore let none make haste to go till he has first lain with the wife of some Trojan, and avenged the toil and sorrow that he has suffered for the sake of Helen.
-- He had left a wife behind him in Phylace to tear her cheeks in sor-row, and his house was only half finished, for he was slain by a Dardanian warrior while leaping foremost of the Achae-ans upon the soil of Troy.
-- And now can you not dare face Menelaus and learn what manner of man he is whose wife you have stolen?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instead of "seeing 'bout it," however, Hall on his return was severely rated by his wife on the length of time he had spent in Sidderbridge, and his mild inquiries were answered snappishly and in a manner not to the point.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw the husbandman's wife get up and feed it in the night with black lumps.
-- The priest was a clever man, and he knew that Messua was wife to the richest villager in the place.
-- Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest with-out answering, for from the thick grass at the foot of the bush there came a low hiss a horrid cold sound that made Rikki-tikki jump back two clear feet.
-- But his wife was a sensible bird, and she knew that cobra's eggs meant young cobras later on.
-- Darzee's wife knew better than to do that, for a bird who looks at a snake's eyes gets so frightened that she can-not move.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'When Magua left his people his wife was given to anoth-er chief; he has now made friends with the Hurons, and will go back to the graves of his tribe, on the shores of the great lake.
-- 'And what pleasure would Magua find in sharing his cab-in with a wife he did not love; one who would be of a nation and color different from his own?
-- Who shall say to the wife of Menowgua that the fishes have his scalp, and that his nation have not taken revenge!Who will dare meet the mother of Wassawattimie, that scornful woman, with his hands clean!What shall be said to the old men when they ask us for scalps, and we have not a hair from a white head to give them!The women will point their fingers at us.
-- When death deprived me of my wife I returned to Scotland, enriched by the marriage; and, would you think it, Duncan!the suf-fering angel had remained in the heartless state of celibacy twenty long years, and that for the sake of a man who could forget her!She did more, sir; she overlooked my want of faith, and, all difficulties being now removed, she took me for her husband.'
-- An evil spirit lives in the wife of one of my young men.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and his wife, a Government official and his wife, Mrs. Strickland's sister and her husband, Colonel MacAndrew, and the wife of a Member of Parliament.
-- We went down for two or three days, my wife and I, and I played golf with him.
-- It was clear that a man after seventeen years of wedlock did not leave his wife without certain occurrences which must have led her to suspect that all was not well with their married life.
-- "Has it occurred to you that your wife is frightfully unhappy?"
-- Supposing your wife died, wouldn't you be tortured by remorse?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But still he is not quite a what one calls a handsome man, nor quite a young man neither, which might be a little excuse for him if anything could be; whereas his wife is young, and is good-looking, and is a woman which is the greatest thing after all.'
-- 'And you wouldn't like your wife to be attacked with that, or anything else that would make her uneasy would you?'
-- His wife returned no other reply than the necessary 'Yes, Quilp,' and the small lord of the creation took his first cigar and mixed his first glass of grog.
-- His obedient wife withdrew the bolt, and her lady mother entered.
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