main是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 主要的， 总的n. 总管道； 干线，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the main street at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the face was in the main one face, and every head was prematurely white.
-- They had not traversed many steps of the long main staircase when he stopped, and stared at the roof and round at the wails.
-- it chanced that they derived a kind of security from the patriotic occupation of the main building, but the true-hearted old gentleman never calculated about that.
-- At two-thirds of a league from the Barrier I did not estimate the dis-tance at that time, but afterwards when I traversed it it struck out of the main avenue, and presently stopped at a solitary house, We all three alighted, and walked, by a damp soft footpath in a garden where a neglected fountain had overflowed, to the door of the house.
-- She had in part suspected, and in part discovered, the main facts of the cruel story, of her husband's share in it, 471and my being resorted to.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stairs up to her room came out on the landing of the great warm main staircase.
-- Those who had not succeeded in getting into the main entrance were crowding about the windows, pushing, wrangling, and peeping through the gratings.
-- The high figure of the salary made him reflect that on that side Stepan Arkadyevitch's proposed position ran counter to the main tendency of his own projects of reform, which always leaned towards economy.
-- A moment's silence followed, after which Countess Lidia Ivanovna, as though approaching the main topic of conversation, said with a fine smile to Oblonsky: "I've known you for a long while, and am very glad to make a closer acquaintance with you.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cumbrous methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldy coaches; now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days.
-- Five main lines connect Omaha with New York.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the central room of the three occupied by Doc Vickerson, facing on Main Street above the New York Clothing Bazaar.
-- Himself, he believed, he had never seen the man, but he knew that Gottlieb's laboratory was in the Main Medical Building.
-- Beyond him was the turreted bulk of the Main Medical Building, a harsh and blurry mass, high up in its dark wall a single light.
-- On the stone steps of the Main Medical, two minutes after, appeared beneath the arc-light a tall figure, ascetic, self-contained, apart.
-- He hurried into the slate- colored hall of the Main Medical, up the wide stairs to the office of Max Gottlieb.
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：
-- The master of the establishment was in another room, but he frequently came down some steps into the main room, his jaunty, tarred boots with red turn-over tops coming into view each time before the rest of his person.
-- Remembering, sketchily, the main outlines of his recent scene with Porfiry, he could not help shuddering again with horror.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I set down this remembrance here, becauseit is an instance to myself of the manner in which I fitted my old 163books to my altered life, and made stories for myself, out of thestreets, and out of men and women; and how some main points inthe character I shall unconsciously develop, I suppose, in writingmy life, were gradually forming all this while.
-- His main use of this tongue, is, to disparage Doctor 253Strong's young gentlemen.
-- The main object on my mind, I remember, when we got fairly onthe road, was to appear as old as possible to the coachman, and tospeak extremely gruff.
-- But his easy, spirited good-humour; his genial manner, his handsome looks, his natural gift ofadapting himself to whomsoever he pleased, and making direct,when he cared to do it, to the main point of interest in anybody'sheart; bound her to him wholly in five minutes.
-- 685I strolled into the country for an hour or so, and then returned bythe main street, which in the interval had shaken off its last night'ssleep.
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