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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With him it was chiefly the brain that needed moulding; much had to be added, much changed.
-- I was chiefly concerned about my arm.
-- One or two, whom in a rare access of high spirits I had scarred rather badly, bore me a grudge; but it vented it-self chiefly behind my back, and at a safe distance from my missiles, in grimaces.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These varlets pretend to be bent chiefly on their sun-down meal, but the moment it is dark they will be on our trail, as true as hounds on the scent.
-- 'I can now read the whole of it, as plainly as if I had seen the arts of Le Subtil,' he added; 'the singer being a man whose gifts lay chiefly in his throat and feet, was made to go first, and the others have trod in his steps, imitating their formation.'
-- 'He knows no difference in his children, whether the col-or of the skin be red, or black, or white,' returned Duncan, evasively; 'though chiefly is he satisfied with the brave -Hurons.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The central parts of South America and Africa will be the continents chiefly inhabited.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I entered on his lodgings t'other day, chiefly because I had seen this very board.
-- 'It's chiefly on that account that we have come just now,' said the single gentleman, 'for you will have another visitor presently.
-- These were, that he should, for a term of years, reside in a spacious mansion where several other gentlemen were lodged and boarded at the public charge, who went clad in a sober uniform of grey turned up with yellow, had their hair cut extremely short, and chiefly lived on gruel and light soup.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From all that occurred at the trial and his knowledge of Maslova, Nekhludoff was convinced that she was innocent, and at first was confident that the other jurors would so find her, but when he saw that because of the merchant's bungling defense of Maslova, evidently prompted by his undisguised liking for her, and the foreman's resistance which it caused, but chiefly because of the weariness of the jury, there was likely to be a verdict of guilty, he wished to make objection, but feared to speak in her favor lest his relations toward her should be disclosed.
-- The verdict was reached not because the majority of the jury agreed to it, but first because the justiciary had so drawn out his speech that he failed to properly instruct the jury; second, because the colonel's story about his brother-in-law's wife was tedious; third, because Nekhludoff was so excited that he did not notice the omission of the clause limiting the intent in the answer, and thought that the words "without intent to rob" negatively answered the question; fourth, because Peter Gerasimovich was not in the room when the foreman read the questions and answers, and chiefly because the jury were tired out and were anxious to get away, and therefore agreed to the verdict which it was easiest to reach.
-- The latter looked at the picture, disapprovingly shook her head, chiefly because Maslova spent money so foolishly, and, lighting a cigarette over the lamp, inhaled the smoke several times, then thrust it at Maslova.
-- The odor of camphor still hung in the air through all the rooms, and Agrippina, Petrovna and Kornei seemed tired out and dissatisfied, and even quarreled about the packing of the things, the use of which seemed to consist chiefly in being hung out, dried and packed away again.
-- That did not bother them; but they were chiefly concerned with doing all that the law required them to do under the circumstances--to make proper transfer of the dead, their papers and belongings, and to exclude them from the list of those that were to be transferred to Nijhni, which was very troublesome, especially on such a warm day.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were soon seated together in a little stone arbour, engaged in conversation, chiefly of smiles.
-- At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the Philosophical Transactions and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A loaf of bread," the Walrus said,"Is what we chiefly need:Pepper and vinegar besidesAre very good indeed Now if you're ready Oysters dear,We can begin to feed."
-- I heard him then, for I had justCompleted my designTo keep the Menai bridge from rustBy boiling it in wine.I thanked him much for telling meThe way he got his wealth,But chiefly for his wish that heMight drink my noble health.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The industrial and commercial papers treated the question chiefly from this point of view.
-- This precious animal, hunted and tracked by fishermen, has now become very rare, and taken refuge chiefly in the northern parts of the Pacific, or probably its race would soon become extinct.
-- I would speak of the bread-fruit tree, very abundant in the island of Gilboa; and I remarked chiefly the variety destitute of seeds, which bears in Malaya the name of "rima."
-- I shall notice chiefly ostracions peculiar to the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and that part which washes the coast of tropical America.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were chiefly women, colliers' wives of the more shiftless sort.
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