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：
-- They passed several farms fortified by battlements and surrounded by a deep moat, the principal building being encircled by a terrace, from which the inhabitants could fire down on the marauders in the plain.
-- After their mutual embraces were over, Lady Helena, and Mary Grant, and John Mangles, were informed of the principal incidents of the expedition, and especially of the new interpretation of the document, due to the sagacity of Jacques Paganel.
-- Soon the principal island stood out from the rocky mass, at the summit of a triangle inclining toward the northeast.
-- Toward noon, the two principal landmarks, by which the group is recognized were sighted, and at 3 P. M. the DUNCAN entered Falmouth Bay in Tristan d'Acunha.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is one little matter some advice I am going to ask him for; but my principal object is simply to introduce myself, because I am Prince Muishkin, and Madame Epanchin is the last of her branch of the house, and besides herself and me there are no other Muishkins left.'
-- 'Oh, I have no special business; my principal object was to make your acquaintance.
-- Her principal acquaintances were poor wom-en of various grades, a couple of actresses, and the family of a poor schoolteacher.
-- Perhaps my lot in life will be changed; but that is not the principal thing.
-- The principal thing is the entire change that has already come over me.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she was the expert and principal operator in this affair, Hall very properly went upstairs for it.
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：
-- Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in their recollections; nor was there any ear in the provinces so deaf as not to have drunk in with avidity the narrative of some fearful tale of midnight murder, in which the natives of the forests were the principal and barbarous actors.
-- The reputation earned by Washington in this battle was the principal cause of his being selected to command the American armies at a later day.
-- * The principal villages of the Indians are still called 'cas-tles' by the whites of New York.
-- * The scene of the foregoing incidents is on the spot where the village of Ballston now stands; one of the two principal watering places of America.
-- The general of the enemy received the youthful messen-ger, surrounded by his principal officers, and by a swarthy band of the native chiefs, who had followed him to the field, with the warriors of their several tribes.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Heaven had reserved them for a strange destiny, and after having, on the 20th of March, escaped from Richmond, besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant, they found themselves seven thousand miles from the capital of Virginia, which was the principal stronghold of the South, during the terrible War of Secession.
-- But they were dry, and there was space to stand upright, at least in the principal room, which occupied the center.
-- Arrived at the summit of the mound, Pencroft and his two companions set to work, with no other tools than their hands, to despoil of its principal branches a rather sickly tree, a sort of marine fir; with these branches they made a litter, on which, covered with grass and leaves, they could carry the engineer.
-- "Yes, for the principal ones," then said Cyrus Harding; "for those of the bays and seas, I admit it willingly.
-- On this day, the engineer, seeing a plant belonging to the wormwood genus, the principal species of which are absinthe, balm-mint, tarragon, etc., gathered several tufts, and, presenting them to the sailor, said, "Here, Pencroft, this will please you."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little man shook his head, and scratched it ruefully as he contemplated this severe indisposition of a principal performer.
-- Isn't Quilp," she says, "our principal support?"
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But their anxiety was unfounded; Nekhludoff, without knowing it, loved Katiousha, as innocent people love, and this very love was the principal safeguard against either his or her fall.
-- This is the principal point."
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