principally是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 主要， 大抵，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, which of the multitude of faces that showed them-selves before him was the true face of the buried person, the shadows of the night did not indicate; but they were all the faces of a man of five-andforty by years, and they differed principally in the passions they expressed, and in the ghastliness of their worn and wasted state.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such meteorous appearances are to be explained in this way that they are the reflections of the Aurora Borealis, and it is highly probable they are caused principally by elec-tricity.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At balls he danced principally with her.
-- She did not go out principally because the dress she had reckoned upon was not ready.
-- These were principally accounts owing in connection with his race horses, to the purveyor of oats and hay, the English saddler, and so on.
-- The simple-hearted cowherd, Ivan, who, Levin fancied, understood the matter better than any of them, collecting together a gang of workers to help him, principally of his own family, became a partner in the cattle-yard.
-- "Vasya Pryatchnikov," he said, with a good-natured smile on his damp, red lips, addressing himself principally to the most important guest, Alexey Alexandrovitch, "they told me today he fought a duel with Kvitsky at Tver, and has killed him."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first some rash individuals, principally of the gentler sex, espoused his cause, which became still more popular when the Illustrated London News came out with his portrait, copied from a photograph in the Reform Club.
-- Meeting a broker, he made the inquiry, to learn that Jeejeeh had left China two years before, and, retiring from business with an immense fortune, had taken up his residence in Europe in Holland the broker thought, with the merchants of which country he had principally traded.
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：
-- On the canal bank near the bridge and not two houses away from the one where Sonia lodged, there was a crowd of people, consisting principally of gutter children.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, my opinion is, that it came intocirculation principally on account of her sometimes saying at theschool, that if she was a lady, she would like to do so-and-so forher uncle- don't you see?- and buy him such-and-such fine things.'
-- 381CHAPTER XXVIIIMr. Micawber's GauntletUNTIL the day arrived on which I was to entertain my newly-found old friends, I lived principally on Dora and coffee.
-- After this, Mrs. Crupp confined herself to making pitfalls on thestairs, principally with pitchers, and endeavouring to deludePeggotty into breaking her legs.
-- Mr. Jorkins was not by any means theawful creature one might have expected, but a large, mild, smooth-faced man of sixty, who took so much snuff that there was atradition in the Commons that he lived principally on thatstimulant, having little room in his system for any other article ofdiet.
-- In glancing up fromthe outside, before we entered, I had seen women and childrenlolling at the windows over flower-pots; and we seemed to haveattracted their curiosity, for these were principally the observerswho looked out of their doors.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Exactly so; that is what principally strikes me.
-- The brothers talked of their own concerns and pur-suits, but principally of those of the elder, whose temper was by much the most communicative, and who was always the greater talker.
-- A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins's name was first mentioned in Highbury, before she was, by some means or other, discovered to have every recommenda-tion of person and mind; to be handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable: and when Mr. Elton himself arrived to triumph in his happy prospects, and cir-culate the fame of her merits, there was very little more for him to do, than to tell her Christian name, and say whose music she principally played.
-- He thought principally of Mrs. Churchill's illness, and wanted to know how she was treated; and as for the ball, it was shocking to have dear Emma disappointed; but they would all be safer at home.
-- Mr. Weston meanwhile, perfectly unsuspicious of the in-dignation he was exciting, happy and cheerful as usual, and with all the right of being principal talker, which a day spent anywhere from home confers, was making himself agree-able among the rest; and having satisfied the inquiries of his wife as to his dinner, convincing her that none of all her careful directions to the servants had been forgotten, and spread abroad what public news he had heard, was proceed-368 Emmaing to a family communication, which, though principally addressed to Mrs. Weston, he had not the smallest doubt of being highly interesting to every body in the room.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We resided principally in the latter, and the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion.
-- Clerval desired the intercourse of the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time, but this was with me a secondary object; I was principally occupied with the means of obtaining the information necessary for the completion of my promise and quickly availed myself of the letters of introduction that I had brought with me, ad-dressed to the most distinguished natural philosophers.
-- Frankenstein discovered that I made notes concerning his history; he asked to see them and then himself corrected and augmented them in many places, but principally in giv-ing the life and spirit to the conversations he held with his enemy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he now reclined on his settle, taking very little notice of me, and talking principally about turnips.
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