Governess
['gʌv(ə)nɪs] or ['gʌvɚnəs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home).
朱厄尔錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.
吉米編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Governante, instructress, tutoress.
校對:惠特尼
例句/造句/用法:
- Presently, without preface or prelude, she said, almost in the tone of one making an accusation, Meess, in England you were a governess? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Five daughters brought up at home without a governess! 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I am a governess myself. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Shirley never laughed at her former governess; even the little formalities and harmless peculiarities of that lady were respectable in her eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Governess, or something of that sort. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- You are better placed _here_; very fit for a wife, but not at all for a governess. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- And I must say I think Mary Garth a dreadful plain girl--more fit for a governess. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- A governess is all very well, but I'd rather have a lady for my sister-in-law. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- One day, a young gentleman, who was nephew to my nurse's governess, came and pressed them both to see an execution. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- What would your governess and your uncle say to see them used for such a purpose? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Gentlemen in his station are not accustomed to marry their governesses. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I don't trust them governesses, Pinner, she remarked to the maid. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Governesses,' she observed, 'must ever be kept in a sort of isolation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- My dearest, don't mention governesses; the word makes me nervous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He never reproves and reproves, as girls' governesses do. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Are they to be shirt-makers, or governesses? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Oh, governesses--or widows. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Sir Pitt might have said he and his family, to be sure; but rich baronets do not need to be careful about grammar, as poor governesses must be. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It is not in your nature to bear the desolate life governesses generally lead; you would fall ill. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Not three in three thousand raw school-girl-governesses would have answered me as you have just done. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- You will give up your governessing slavery at once. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I'll not hear of governessing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
校對:谢尔比