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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The principal tusk has the hardness of steel.
-- Science has decided on the globe the direction of five principal currents: one in the North Atlantic, a second in the South, a third in the North Pacific, a fourth in the South, and a fifth in the Southern Indian Ocean.
-- "I only know, Captain, what the principal soundings have taught us."
-- Then, chart in hand, we reviewed the travels of the French navigator, his voyages of circumnavigation, his double detention at the South Pole, which led to the discovery of Adelaide and Louis Philippe, and fixing the hydrographical bearings of the principal islands of Oceania.
-- It coasted even the Island of Kiltan, a land originally coraline, discovered by Vasco da Gama in 1499, and one of the nineteen principal islands of the Laccadive Archipelago, situated between 10脗掳 and 14脗掳 30' N.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date '1500,' and the name 'Hareton Earnshaw.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything in this girl was beautiful--the white hands, the wavy, short hair, the strong nose and lips; but the principal charm of her face were her hazel, kindly, truthful, sheep eyes.
-- He found there many wise, learned and interesting things, but there was no answer to his principal question: By what right do some people punish others?
-- The principal advantage of the transfer, however, lay in the acquaintance she made of some people who exerted a decisive influence over her.
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：
-- 'Principal rivers there are none.
-- Principal mountains I'm on the only one, but I don't think it's got any name.
-- Principal towns why, what are those creatures, making honey down there?
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime, the squire and the captain stayed on deck, and the latter hailed the coxswain, who was the principal man aboard.
-- A tall tree was thus the principal mark.
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