governess 的定义
- a woman who is employed to take charge of a child's upbringing, education, etc.
- Archaic. a woman who is a ruler or governor.
governess 近义词
tutor
更多governess例句
- To protect them, the babies were sent away far from court to lesser royal homes to be raised not by their parents but by a squad of nurses, governesses and tutors.
- So far, most of this builds on the novel, except that our governess, Dani, has a guilt-ridden history revealed early on — she keeps seeing the ghost of her dead ex-fiancee.
- Governess: A young woman who was typically employed by wealthy families to care for and privately educate their children.
- Victoria Winters: An orphan who is engaged by the Collins family as a governess for young David Collins.
- The girl would become Victoria Winters, an orphan hired by the Collins Family as a governess for the troubled young heir.
- A victim of the waning governess trade, Miss Ellington must take a position at the crumbling Scroop Hall.
- Later she got a job as governess to the illegitimate children that Louis XIV had fathered with another mistress.
- The Princess still kept her eyes fixed on Louis, while, in a suppressed and unsteady voice, she answered her governess.
- The governess is Swiss and for one week she talks nothing but French and for another nothing but German.
- The child who has got languages from its governess, therefore, marks time—that is to say, wastes time in these subjects at school.
- A real improvement in the boys character dated from the arrival of a new governess, Nastasia Petrov.
- She had a governess and she had a maid, but I must say she didn't seem an atom set up, and was just as nice when she met us girls.