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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That is the principal thing, Robert; but you are too modest.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Old Captain Peleg, many years her chief-mate, before he commanded another vessel of his own, and now a retired seaman, and one of the principal owners of the Pequod, this old Peleg, during the term of his chief-mateship, had built upon her original grotesqueness, and inlaid it, all over, with a quaintness both of material and device, unmatched by anything except it be Thorkill-Hake's carved buckler or bedstead.
-- But one thing, nevertheless, that made me a little distrustful about receiving a generous share of the profits was this: Ashore, I had heard something of both Captain Peleg and his unaccountable old crony Bildad; how that they being the principal proprietors of the Pequod, therefore the other and more inconsiderable and scattered owners, left nearly the whole management of the ship's affairs to these two.
-- Alarmed at this terrible outburst between the two principal and responsible owners of the ship, and feeling half a mind to give up all idea of sailing in a vessel so questionably owned and temporarily commanded, I stepped aside from the door to give egress to Bildad, who, I made no doubt, was all eagerness to vanish from before the awakened wrath of Peleg.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Jew, perceiving that Mr. Chitling was considerably roused, hastened to assure him that nobody was laughing; and to prove the gravity of the company, appealed to Master Bates, the principal offender.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bingley had soon made himself acquainted with all the principal people in the room; he was lively and unre-served, danced every dance, was angry that the ball closed so early, and talked of giving one himself at Netherfield.
-- They returned, therefore, in good spirits to Longbourn, the village where they lived, and of which they were the principal inhabitants.
-- He did look at it, and into it for half-an-hour was pleased with the situa-tion and the principal rooms, satisfied with what the owner said in its praise, and took it immediately.
-- Bingley was the principal spokesman, and Miss Bennet the principal object.
-- That he had been concerned in the measures taken to separate Bingley and Jane she had never doubted; but she had always attributed to Miss Bingley the principal design and arrange-ment of them.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet even in this voyage I had my misfortunes too; par-ticularly, that I was continually sick, being thrown into a violent calenture by the excessive heat of the climate; our principal trading being upon the coast, from latitude of 15 degrees north even to the line itself.
-- I neither saw, nor de-sired to see any people; the principal thing I wanted was fresh water.
-- They had not been long in that posture when the boat-swain, who was the principal ringleader of the mutiny, and had now shown himself the most dejected and dispirited of all the rest, came walking towards them, with two more of the crew; the captain was so eager at having this principal rogue so much in his power, that he could hardly have pa-tience to let him come so near as to be sure of him, for they only heard his tongue before: but when they came nearer, the captain and Friday, starting up on their feet, let fly at them.
-- My principal guide and privy-counsellor was my good ancient widow, who, in gratitude for the money I had sent her, thought no pains too much nor care too great to em-ploy for me; and I trusted her so entirely that I was perfectly easy as to the security of my effects; and, indeed, I was very happy from the beginning, and now to the end, in the un-spotted integrity of this good gentlewoman.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Jennings, knowing nothing of any change in the patient, went unusually early to bed; her maid, who was one of the principal nurses, was recreating herself in the housekeeper's room, and Elinor remained alone with Marianne.
-- Mrs. Dashwood, whose eyes, as she answered the servant's inquiry, had intuitively taken the same direction, was shocked to perceive by Elinor's countenance how much she really suffered, and a moment afterwards, alike distressed by Marianne's situation, knew not on which child to bestow her principal attention.
-- The selfish sagacity of the latter, which had at first drawn Robert into the scrape, was the principal instrument of his deliverance from it; for her respectful humility, assiduous attentions, and endless flatteries, as soon as the smallest opening was given for their exercise, reconciled Mrs. Ferrars to his choice, and re-established him completely in her favour.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its principal element was daring, backed, of course, by an intense desire and admiration for the sex.
-- Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Hoagland, and the actor who had taken Bamberger's part were representing the principal roles in this scene.
-- One of the principal comedy companies of the day was playing an engagement at the Grand Opera House.
-- Flowers, candy, jewelry, seemed the principal things in which the elegant dames were interested.
-- As she went on frowning, looking now at one principal and now at the other, the audience began to smile.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the place couldn't hold no more, the duke he quit tending door and went around the back way and come on to the stage and stood up before the curtain and made a little speech, and praised up this tragedy, and said it was the most thrillingest one that ever was; and so he went on a- bragging about the tragedy, and about Edmund Kean the Elder, which was to play the main principal part in it; and at last when he'd got everybody's expecta- tions up high enough, he rolled up the curtain, and the next minute the king come a-prancing out on all fours, naked; and he was painted all over, ring- streaked-and-striped, all sorts of col-ors, as splendid as a rainbow.
-- Lots of the principal people geth- ered around the king, to let him see they was on his side.
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