chiefly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adv. 多半， 首要地，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his methodical brain there were distinctly formulated certain aspects of peasant life, deduced partly from that life itself, but chiefly from contrast with other modes of life.
-- "It appears," he went on, with eager interest, "that Friedrich was not, after all, the person chiefly responsible for the partition of Poland.
-- He was indeed the person chiefly responsible for the chill benumbing all the guests before Stepan Arkadyevitch came in.
-- Last time he had remembered their names, but now he had forgotten them utterly, chiefly because Enoch was the personage he liked best in the whole of the Old Testament, and Enoch's translation to heaven was connected in his mind with a whole long train of thought, in which he became absorbed now while he gazed with fascinated eyes at his father's watch-chain and a half-unbuttoned button on his waistcoat.
-- The princess, conscious that Agafea Mihalovna's wrath must be chiefly directed against her, as the person responsible for the raspberry jam-making, tried to appear to be absorbed in other things and not interested in the jam, talked of other matters, but cast stealthy glances in the direction of the stove.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The war was to him chiefly another interruption to his work, like Pickerbaughism, like earning his living at Wheatsylvania.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This sum (now I can explain it all to you, my precious Rodya) she took chiefly in order to send you sixty roubles, which you needed so terribly then and which you received from us last year.
-- I am well dressed and reckoned not a poor man; the emanci-pation of the serfs hasn't affected me; my property consists chiefly of forests and water meadows.
-- And I said, 'I can't stay,' as I didn't want to read, and I'd gone in chiefly to show Kat-erina Ivanovna some collars.
-- This certificate of honour was obviously intended now to prove Katerina Iva-novna's right to open a boarding-school; but she had armed herself with it chiefly with the object of overwhelming 'those two stuck-up draggletails' if they came to the din-ner, and proving incontestably that Katerina Ivanovna was of the most noble, 'she might even say aristocratic family, a colonel's daughter and was far superior to certain adven-turesses who have been so much to the fore of late.'
-- Exclamations arose on all hands chiefly expressive of wonder, but some were menacing in tone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I forget now where they chiefly went,but I think there were some among them that made voyages bothto the East and West Indies.
-- But I could hardly helpobserving that she had launched into them, chiefly because thequestion was raised in her own mind, and with very little referenceto me, though she had addressed herself to me in the absence ofanybody else.
-- But at no time of my life,' said Mr. Micawber, 'have Ienjoyed a higher degree of satisfaction than in pouring my griefs (ifI may describe difficulties, chiefly arising out of warrants ofattorney and promissory notes at two and four months, by thatword) into the bosom of my friend Copperfield.'
-- I chiefly wonder what he'll be,when he leaves Doctor Strong's, and what mankind will do tomaintain any place against him.
-- He said it was impossible to conceal the 361disagreeable fact, that we were chiefly employed by solicitors; buthe gave me to understand that they were an inferior race of men,universally looked down upon by all proctors of any pretensions.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold the nominal office of governess, the mild-ness of her temper had hardly allowed her to impose any restraint; and the shadow of authority being now long passed away, they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment, but di-rected chiefly by her own.
-- The room they were taken into was the one he chiefly occupied, and looking forwards; behind it was another with which it immediately communi-cated; the door between them was open, and Emma passed into it with the housekeeper to receive her assistance in the most comfortable manner.
-- Their love of society, and their new dining-room, prepared every body for their keeping dinner-company; and a few parties, chiefly among the single men, had already taken place.
-- But for that reason, I should imagine the likeness must be chiefly confined to the females, for boys have very little teaching after an early age, and scramble into any hand they can get.
-- Mrs. Elton then said, 'Nobody can think less of dress in general than I do but upon such an occa-sion as this, when every body's eyes are so much upon me, and in compliment to the Westons who I have no doubt are giving this ball chiefly to do me honour I would not wish to be inferior to others.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It has been observed more than once that the causes of love are chiefly subjective, and Boldwood was a living testimony to the truth of the proposition.
-- Poorgrass, thus assured, trilled forth a flickering yet commendable piece of sentiment, the tune of which consisted of the key-note and another, the latter being the sound chiefly dwelt upon.
-- It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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