governess

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UK [ˈɡʌvə(r)nəs]
  • v.做家庭女教师；做保姆
  • n.（尤指旧时的）家庭女教师
  • Web女家庭教师；女家教；女统治者
Plural Form：governesses  

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governess
n.
1.
（尤指旧时的）家庭女教师(especially in the past), a woman employed to teach the children of a rich family in their home and to live with them

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AllAll,做家庭女教师做家庭女教师,做保姆做保姆,家庭女教师家庭女教师,女家庭教师女家庭教师,女家教女家教,女统治者女统治者
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1.
What would your governess and your uncle say to see them used for such a purpose?
你们的家庭女教师和你姨父要是看到我们用这椅子来演戏，不知道会说什么？
nǐ men de jiā tíng nǚ jiào shī hé nǐ yí fù yào shi kàn dào wǒ men yòng zhè yǐ zi lái yǎn xì , bù zhī dào huì shuō shén me ?
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2.
When the governess first arrived the children played tricks on her .
女家庭教师刚到的时候，孩子们都捉弄她。
nǚ jiā tíng jiào shī gāng dào de shí hou , hái zi men dōu zhuō nòng tā 。
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3.
If Grandfather were here, she thought, he would say that it was all my governess's fault for raising me to be so prim and proper!
如果祖父在这儿，她心想，他一定会说都怪我的家庭教师把我培养得太古板了。
rú guǒ zǔ fù zài zhè er , tā xīn xiǎng , tā yí dìng huì shuō dōu guài wǒ de jiā tíng jiào shī bǎ wǒ péi yǎng de tài gǔ bǎn le 。
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4.
Margaret found a place as nursery governess and felt rich with her small salary.
玛格丽特找了个看小孩的工作，虽然工资有些微薄，可也够让她觉得富有的了。
mǎ gé lì tè zhǎo le gè kàn xiǎo hái de gōng zuò , suī rán gōng zī yǒu xiē wēi bó , kě yě gòu ràng tā jué de fù yǒu de le 。
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5.
'I know nothing about Mr Rochester. Why don't you ask the name of the governess, and why everybody is looking for her? '
我对罗切斯特先生一无所知。你为什么不问问家庭教师的名字，以及为什么大家都在找她？
wǒ duì luó qiè sī tè xiān sheng yì wú suǒ zhī 。 nǐ wèi shén me bù wèn wèn jiā tíng jiào shī de míng zì , yǐ jí wèi shén me dà jiā dōu zài zhǎo tā ?
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6.
In Pride and Prejudice, for a woman, generally the only way to her is to get married besides being spinsterhood or governess.
傲慢与偏见，对女人，一般的唯一途径是她结婚除了独身或教师。
ào màn yǔ piān jiàn , duì nǚ rén , yì bān de wéi yī tú jìng shì tā jié hūn chú le dú shēn huò jiào shī 。
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7.
she might have spent more time exploring the ways in which a novelist's imagination transformed the governess's actual experience.
她可能会花更多的时间来探讨那些传达女家庭教师实际经历的小说家想象方式。
tā kě néng huì huā gèng duō de shí jiān lái tàn tǎo nà xiē chuán dá nǚ jiā tíng jiào shī shí jì jīng lì de xiǎo shuō jiā xiǎng xiàng fāng shì 。
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8.
Knowing no one to ask to accompany him, he went alone and in the lobby saw a French governess who was being turned away from the box office.
他知道找不到人来陪他，就一个人去了，在门厅里他看到一个法国家庭女教师正在售票处前要买票买不到。
tā zhī dào zhǎo bù dào rén lái péi tā , jiù yī gè rén qù le , zài mén tīng lǐ tā kàn dào yī gè fǎ guó jiā tíng nǚ jiào shī zhèng zài shòu piào chù qián yào mǎi piào mǎi bù dào 。
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9.
she kept saying, addressing her governess and gazing into the face of her own daughter disguised as a Tatar of Kazan.
她仔细望着化装成喀山鞑靼人的她的女儿的面孔，一面把脸转向家庭女教师，说道。
tā zǐ xì wàng zhe huà zhuāng chéng kā shān dá dá rén de tā de nǚ ér de miàn kǒng , yí miàn bǎ liǎn zhuǎn xiàng jiā tíng nǚ jiào shī , shuō dào 。
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10.
Non-governess female employment agencies were also established in London, thereby helping usher the age to an end.
不是家庭教师的就业机构也在伦敦建立，因此有助于展示一个时代的结束。
bú shì jiā tíng jiào shī de jiù yè jī gòu yě zài lún dūn jiàn lì , yīn cǐ yǒu zhù yú zhǎn shì yī gè shí dài de jié shù 。
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