mistress

来自mister,主人，先生，-ess,表阴性。即女主人，主妇。

mistress

mistress: see master

mistress (n.)

early 14c., "female teacher, governess," from Old French maistresse "mistress (lover); housekeeper; governess, female teacher" (Modern French maîtresse), fem. of maistre "master" (see master (n.)). Sense of "a woman who employs others or has authority over servants" is from early 15c. Sense of "kept woman of a married man" is from early 15c.

1. Anthony sometimes felt that his mistress was his superior in will-power.

有时安东尼感觉他的情妇比他更有意志力。

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2. She had always been mistress of her own destiny.

她总是能够掌握自己的命运。

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3. We had a very good mathematics mistress who pulled me up.

我们有个很出色的女数学老师，她帮我提高了水平。

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4. Barking deliriously, the dog bounded towards his mistress.

那只狗兴奋地狂吠着向女主人跑去。

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5. He has a wife and a mistress.

他有妻子，还有一个情妇。

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1. an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man

2. a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

3. a woman master who directs the work of others

the Biology mistress

生物学女教师

牛津词典

the mistress of the house

这房子的女主人

牛津词典

She wants to be mistress of her own affairs (= to organize her own life) .

她希望自己的事自己作主。

牛津词典

She was his mistress for three years...

她曾做过他3年的情妇。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He has a wife and a mistress.

他有妻子，还有一个情妇。

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My history mistress was extremely helpful.

教我历史的那位女老师特别乐于助人。

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It must be really bad, for her to ignore a summons from her mistress!

她居然不听女主人的使唤，实在是太不像话了！

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The huge wolfhound danced in circles around his mistress.

这条大狼犬围着女主人蹦蹦跳跳地绕圈子。

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She had always been mistress of her own destiny.

她总是能够掌握自己的命运。

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She is a mistress of disguise.

她是伪装的高手。

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...another winner from the mistress of historical romance.

来自这位历史爱情小说知名女作家又一部必定大受欢迎的作品

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His concubine , Mistress Chen, was visiting with her old mother.

陈姨太也回到了她的年老的母亲那里.

汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）

The Science Mistress stropped Miss Meadows.

理科老师拦住了美多斯小姐的去路.

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Why, mistress, I hear good tidings of you on all hands!

噢, 太太, 我从各处都听到有关你的好消息!

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The door curtain was pushed aside and the Venerable Master Kao entered, followed by Mistress Chen.

老太爷也揭了门帘从他的房里出来,陈姨太跟在后面.

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Mistress Chen assented and went out, leaving Chuehhui standing alone before his grandfather.

陈姨太答应一声走出去了, 剩下他面对面地站在祖父的面前.

汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）

Mother of memories, mistress of mistresses.

我的回忆之母, 情人中的情人.

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My Master and Mistress must not ask the impossible.

我的男主人和女主人千万别强求它无法办到的事.

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Soybean paste from these pots makes a husband forget his mistress!

用我的罐子做的豆饼能使丈夫忘记他的情妇!

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Does his wife know he has a mistress?

他的妻子知道他有一个情妇 吗 ?

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Europe, to repeat the quip of the day , had lost a mistress and gained a master.

再用当时的一句妙语来说,欧洲失去了一个主妇,却得到了一个主人.

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War is my master. Death my mistress.

战争就是我的主宰, 死亡就是我的情人.

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She was reportedly his mistress for many years.

据说她是他多年的情妇.

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I am a plain games mistress.

我是一个普通的体育女教师.

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Bertha, as you know, is her own mistress and responsible for her acts to no one.

如你所知道的, 伯莎是她自己的主人,她对自己的行为不向任何人负责.

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Although sometimes tolerable and forgivable, taking a mistress is regarded as immoral in all countries.

尽管人们对包二奶有时能够容忍和原谅, 但在所有国家,人们都认为养情妇是不道德的.

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You also hire the mistresses of Oxford High School for girls.

出自-2013年12月听力原文