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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The big mill-house was deserted, save for a labourer and his wife who lived in the kitchen.
-- In the large darkish kitchen of the mill, the labourer's wife was talking shrilly to Hermione and Gerald, who stood, he in white and she in a glistening bluish foulard, strangely luminous in the dusk of the room; whilst from the cages on the walls, a dozen or more canaries sang at the top of their voices.
-- shrilled the labourer's wife in disgust.
-- They were laughing at their mother, who, dressed in a summer material of black and purple stripes, and wearing a hat of purple straw, was setting forth with much more of the shyness and trepidation of a young girl than her daughters ever felt, walking demurely beside her husband, who, as usual, looked rather crumpled in his best suit, as if he were the father of a young family and had been holding the baby whilst his wife got dressed.
-- The hot narrow intimacy between man and wife was abhorrent.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All day had been flooding with rain; we could not go to church, so Joseph must needs get up a congregation in the garret; and, while Hindley and his wife basked downstairs before a comfortable fire doing anything but reading their Bibles, I'll answer for it Heathcliff, myself, and the unhappy ploughboy were commanded to take our prayer books, and mount: we were ranged in a row, on a sack of corn, groaning and shivering, and hoping that Joseph would shiver too, so that he might give us a short homily for his own sake.
-- CHAPTER 6 MR. HINDLEY came home to the funeral; and a thing that amazed us, and set the neighbours gossiping right and left he brought a wife with him.
-- Indeed, he would have carpeted and papered a small spare room for a parlour; but his wife expressed such pleasure at the white floor and huge glowing fireplace, at the pewter dishes and delf case, and dog kennel, and the wide space there was to move about in where they usually sat, that he thought it unnecessary to her comfort, and so dropped the intention.
-- Dame Archer brought the cherub down to master, in the house, and his face just began to light up, when the old croaker steps forward, and says he "Earnshaw, it's a blessing your wife has been spared to leave you this son.
-- He had room in his heart only for two idols his wife and himself: he doted on both, and adored one, and I couldn't conceive how he would bear the loss.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Who says man and wife are bad company?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His wife became aware of it, and when, on one occasion, she found them both in the room, she fell on Katiousha and began to beat her.
-- This woman was the wife of the commander of the district in which Nekhludoff was one of the electors.
-- "However, until I have heard from Maria Vasilieona, the wife of the commander, and have done with her for good, I can do nothing," he said to himself.
-- In the middle of the church stood the aristocracy; a country squire with his wife and son in a sailor blouse, the commissary of the rural police, a telegraph operator, a merchant in high boots, the local syndic with a medal on his breast, and to the right of the tribune, behind the squire's wife, Matriena Pavlovna, in a lilac-colored chatoyant dress and white shawl with colored border, and beside her was Katiousha in a white dress, gathered in folds at the waist, a blue belt, and a red bow in her black hair.
-- The associate in the gold eye-glasses said nothing, and gloomily and determinedly looked in front of him, expecting nothing good either from his wife or from the world.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He leaves his wife to manage the inn; and as she is a woman of colour, a pair of old bachelors like you and I may be excused for guessing that it is the wife, quite as much as the health, that sends him back to roving.
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