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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glenarvan wondered if the Australians were wanting in Australia, as the Indians had been wanting in the Pampas of the Argentine district; but Paganel told him that, in that latitude, the natives frequented chiefly the Murray Plains, about one hundred miles to the eastward.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of the passengers by this particular train were re- turning from abroad; but the third-class carriages were the best filled, chiefly with insignificant persons of various- oc cupations and degrees, picked up at the different stations nearer town.
-- Maybe you will have other things to do, besides, but you are sent chiefly for my sake, I feel sure of it.
-- This was shown chiefly in the look of fear and hatred which he cast upon the assembled company, and in the wild smile upon his trembling lips.
-- He did not dwell much on the Petersburg part of it, which consisted chiefly of in-telligence about his friend Hippolyte, but passed quickly to the Pavlofsk tidings.
-- We have spoken of these letters chiefly because in them is often to be found some news of the Epanchin family, and of Aglaya in particular.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hall did not like him, and whenever he dared he talked of the advisability of getting rid of him; but he showed his dislike chiefly by concealing it ostentatiously, and avoiding his visitor as much as possible.
-- CHAPTER V THE BURGLARY AT THE VICARAGE The facts of the burglary at the vicarage came to us chiefly through the medium of the vicar and his wife.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I assert, then, that in the wondrous bodily whiteness of the bird chiefly lurks the secret of the spell; a truth the more evinced in this, that by a solecism of terms there are birds called grey albatrosses; and these I have frequently seen, but never with such emotions as when I beheld the Antarctic fowl.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As sudden shiftings of the scene, and rapid changes of time and place, are not only sanctioned in books by long usage, but are by many considered as the great art of authorship: an author's skill in his craft being, by such critics, chiefly estimated with relation to the dilemmas in which he leaves his characters at the end of every chapter: this brief introduction to the present one may perhaps be deemed unnecessary.
-- This was far from being a place of doubtful character; for it had long been known as the residence of none but low ruffians, who, under various pretences of living by their labour, subsisted chiefly on plunder and crime.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Undoubtedly,' replied Darcy, to whom this remark was chiefly addressed, 'there is a meanness in ALL the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captiva-tion.
-- Elizabeth was chiefly struck by his extraordinary def-erence for Lady Catherine, and his kind intention of christening, marrying, and burying his parishioners when-ever it were required.
-- 'They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time, and though I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and ar-ranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to give them as un-studied an air as possible.'
-- Allowing for the common demands of the game, Mr. Wickham was therefore at leisure to talk to Eliz-abeth, and she was very willing to hear him, though what she chiefly wished to hear she could not hope to be told the history of his acquaintance with Mr. Darcy.
-- As for the gen- tleman himself, HIS feelings were chiefly expressed, not by embarrassment or dejection, or by trying to avoid her, but by stiffness of manner and resentful silence.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- - I overset my raft, and all the goods I had got upon it; but, being in shoal water, and the things be-ing chiefly heavy, I recovered many of them when the tide was out.
-- From the 4th of July to the 14th I was chiefly employed in walking about with my gun in my hand, a little and a little at a time, as a man that was gathering up his strength after a fit of sickness; for it is hardly to be imagined how low I was, and to what weakness I was reduced.
-- I asked him all the particulars of their voyage, and found they were a Spanish ship, bound from the Rio de la Plata to the Havanna, being directed to leave their loading there, which was chiefly hides and silver, and to bring back what European goods they could meet with there; that they had five Portuguese seamen on board, whom they took out of another wreck; that five of their own men were drowned when first the ship was lost, and that these escaped through infinite dangers and hazards, and arrived, almost starved, on the cannibal coast, where they expected to have been de-voured every moment.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It chiefly consisted of household linen, plate, china, and books, with a handsome pianoforte of Marianne's.
-- The village of Barton was chiefly on one of these hills, and formed a pleasant view from the cottage windows.
-- They walked along the road through the valley, and chiefly in silence, for Marianne's MIND could not be controlled, and Elinor, satisfied with gaining one point, would not then attempt more.
-- But it was not immediately that an opportunity of doing so could be commanded, though Lucy was as well disposed as herself to take advantage of any that occurred; for the weather was not often fine enough to allow of their joining in a walk, where they might most easily separate themselves from the others; and though they met at least every other evening either at the park or cottage, and chiefly at the former, they could not be supposed to meet for the sake of conversation.
-- The morning was chiefly spent in leaving cards at the houses of Mrs. Jennings's acquaintance to inform them of her being in town; and Marianne was all the time busy in observing the direction of the wind, watching the variations of the sky and imagining an alteration in the air.
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