principal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 主要的; n. 校长，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The floor is sufficiently uneven, the wainscot rises to elbow height, and the rest of the wall space is decorated with a varnished paper, on which the principal scenes from _Telemaque_ are depicted, the various classical personages being colored.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next morning I delivered my letters of introduc-tion and paid a visit to some of the principal professors.
-- I replied carelessly, and partly in contempt, mentioned the names of my alchemists as the principal authors I had studied.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, in Atlanta, were not only the factories for making pistols and saddles, tents and ammunition, but alsothe most extensive rolling mills in the South, the shops of the principal railroads and the enormous hospitals.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He handed it to his principal instead of to me.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whilst he was sit-ting there, he thought of his dearest mother, and wished that one of the king's principal servants would begin to speak of her, and would ask how it was faring with the queen in the 188 Grimms' Fairy Talestower, and if she were alive still, or had perished.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I should have mentioned, that before the principal person began his oration, he cried out three times, Langro dehul san (these words and the former were after-wards repeated and explained to me); whereupon, immediately, about fifty of the inhabitants came and cut the strings that fastened the left side of my head, which gave me the liberty of turning it to the right, and of observing the person and gesture of him that was to speak.
-- But the principal difficulty was to raise and place me in this vehicle.
-- Here the emperor ascended, with many principal lords of his court, to have an opportunity of viewing me, as I was told, for I could not see them.
-- My friend Reldresal, principal secretary for private affairs, is, in my opinion, if I am not partial, the second after the treasurer; the rest of the great officers are much upon a par.
-- '3d, The said man-mountain shall confine his walks to our principal high roads, and not offer to walk, or lie down, in a meadow or field of corn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A great square house, with a heavy portico darkening the principal windows, as its master's heavy brows overshadowed his eyes.
-- He turned from his own class and his own quarter, taking nothing but a little bread as he walked along, towards the hill on which his principal employer lived, in a red house with black outside shutters, green inside blinds, a black street door, up two white steps, Bounderby (in letters very like himself) upon a brazen plate, and a round brazen door-handle underneath it, like a brazen full-stop.
-- LOSTThe robbery at the Bank had not languished before, and did not cease to occupy a front place in the attention of the principal of that establishment now.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw but few inhabitants during my excursion, but I met a crowd on the beach, drying, salting and loading codfish, the principal article of exportation.
-- Some two hours or more after we had left the city of Reykjavik, we reached the little town called Aoalkirkja, or the principal church.
-- Nevertheless, it appeared quite clear to me, that we were not in the principal chimney of the volcano, but in an accessory conduit, where we felt the counter shock of the great and principal tunnel filled by burning lava.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His principal anxiety was about his wife.
-- The principal chimney-sweep of that fashionable quarter lived at the blind end of Mews Street; and the same corner contained an establishment much frequented about early morning and twilight for the purchase of wine-bottles and kitchen-stuff.
-- The Principal and instrument soon drove off together to a stable-yard in High Holborn, where a remarkably fine grey gelding, worth, at the lowest figure, seventy-five guineas (not taking into account the value of the shot he had been made to swallow for the improvement of his form), was to be parted with for a twenty-pound note, in consequence of his having run away last week with Mrs Captain Barbary of Cheltenham, who wasn't up to a horse of his courage, and who, in mere spite, insisted on selling him for that ridiculous sum: or, in other words, on giving him away.
-- Plornish, going up this yard alone and leaving his Principal outside, found a gentleman with tight drab legs, a rather old hat, a little hooked stick, and a blue neckerchief (Captain Maroon of Gloucestershire, a private friend of Captain Barbary); who happened to be there, in a friendly way, to mention these little circumstances concerning the remarkably fine grey gelding to any real judge of a horse and quick snapper-up of a good thing, who might look in at that address as per advertisement.
-- He was earnest to finish his commission at once, and his Principal was in the same mind.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The small-ness of the company made it necessary for the two principal actors to take several parts apiece, and they certainly de-served some credit for the hard work they did in learning three or four different parts, whisking in and out of various costumes, and managing the stage besides.
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