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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their road to this detached cottage was down Vicarage Lane, a lane leading at right angles from the broad, though irregular, main street of the place; and, as may be inferred, containing the blessed abode of Mr. Elton.
-- Anxious to separate herself from them as far as she could, she soon afterwards took possession of a narrow footpath, a little raised on one side of the lane, leaving them together in the main road.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As far as could be learnt it appeared that the poor young dog, still under the impression that since he was kept for running after sheep, the more he ran after them the better, had at the end of his meal off the dead lamb, which may have given him additional energy and spirits, collected all the ewes into a corner, driven the timid creatures through the hedge, across the upper field, and by main force of worrying had given them momentum enough to break down a portion of the rotten railing, and so hurled them over the edge.
-- A scroll of smoke blew aside and revealed to him a wheat-rick in startling juxtaposition with the decaying one, and behind this a series of others, composing the main corn produce of the farm; so that instead of the straw-stack standing, as he had imagined comparatively isolated, there was a regular connection between it and the remaining stacks of the group.
-- Lively voices were heard this morning in the upper rooms, the main staircase to which was of hard oak, the balusters, heavy as bed-posts, being turned and moulded in the quaint fashion of their century, the handrail as stout as a parapet-top, and the stairs themselves continually twisting round like a person trying to look over his shoulder.
-- A tributary of the main stream flowed through the basin of the pool by an inlet and outlet at opposite points of its diameter.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon she was at the end of the driveway and out on the main road, but she didnot stop until she had rounded a curve that put a large clump of trees between her and the house.
-- Theavenue of cedars leading from the main road to the house that avenue of cedars without which no Georgia planter'shome could be complete had a cool dark shadiness that gave a brighter tinge, by contrast, to the green of the othertrees.
-- Then feet shuffled up the back-porch stairs and into thepassageway leading to the main house, stopping in the hall just outside the dining room.
-- "We're out of town now," said Rhett briefly, drawing rein, "and on the main road to Rough and Ready."
-- "If we can just get near to Rough and Ready, I know a wagon trace that windsoff from the main Jonesboro road and wanders around for miles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After another silent turn in the garden, I fell back on the main position.
-- "The first and the main thing to be done," said Herbert, "is to get him out of England.
-- LOT 1 was marked in whitewashed knock-knee letters on the brew house; LOT 2 on that part of the main building which had been so long shut up.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For if, in its perihelion, it should approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet, it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their light from it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These attributes of Coketown were in the main inseparable from the work by which it was sustained; against them were to be set off, comforts of life which found their way all over the world, and elegancies of life which made, we will not ask how much of the fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned.
-- Nor was it merely the stranger who noticed this, because there was a native organization in Coketown itself, whose members were to be heard of in the House of Commons every session, indignantly petitioning for acts of parliament that should make these people religious by main force.
-- Sun-blinds, and sprinklings of water, a little cooled the main streets and the shops; but the mills, and the courts and alleys, baked at a fierce heat.
-- 'He had another odd dream of being taken by a waiter through a mist, which, after giving him some trouble and difficulty, resolved itself into the main street, in which he stood alone.
-- Strange as it always is to consider any assembly in the act of submissively resigning itself to the dreariness of some complacent person, lord or commoner, whom three-fourths of it could, by no human means, raise out of the slough of inanity to their own intellectual level, it was particularly strange, and it was even particularly affecting, to see this crowd of earnest faces, whose honesty in the main no competent observer free from bias could doubt, so agitated by such a leader.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was holding on with might and main to the end of a cable, and appeared to gaze with pleasure and delight at the spectacle of the unchained elements.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He realized now that the bitch-goddess of Success had two main appetites: one for flattery, adulation, stroking and tickling such as writers and artists gave her; but the other a grimmer appetite for meat and bones.
-- But he was aware of the noises of the night, the engines at Stacks Gate, the traffic on the main road.
-- Hilda turned to the Crosshill Road, that was not a main road, but ran to Mansfield.
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