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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Naturally enough, the main topic of conversation was the weather.
-- The main point is that AUSTRAL means AUSTRALIE, and we must have gone blindly on a wrong track not to have discovered the explanation at the very beginning, it was so evident.
-- He began to speak to Glenarvan at once about it, and adduced all sorts of arguments to advance his cause—his devotion to Lady Helena and his Lordship, how useful could he be in organizing the party, and how useless on board the DUNCAN; everything, in fact, but the main reason, and that he had no need to bring forward.
-- Glenarvan's first concern was the wagon; this was the main thing in his eyes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the main point is listen, gentlemen, let me finish! the main point is that Mr. Burdovsky is not Pav-licheff's son at all.
-- All is now clear, and we acknowledge the truth of your main point.
-- 'Of course there is a difference between a hundred roubles and two hundred and fifty, but in this case the principle is the main point, and that a hundred and fifty roubles are missing is only a side issue.
-- It seemed clear to the prince that Aglaya forgave him, and that he might go there again this very evening; and in his eyes that was not only the main thing, but everything in the world.
-- 'I knew you would be at that hotel,' he continued, just as men sometimes commence a serious conversation by dis-cussing any outside subject before leading up to the main point.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These two came forward from the main body of Trojans, and set upon Diomed, he being on foot, while they fought from their chariot.
-- Thrice did he spring forward with might and main to slay him, and thrice did Apollo beat back his gleaming shield.
-- He doubted whether to pursue the son of Jove, or to make slaughter of the Lycian rank and file; it was not decreed, however, that he should slay the son of Jove; Minerva, there-fore, turned him against the main body of the Lycians.
-- I am quick to turn my leath-ern shield either to right or left, for this I deem the main thing in battle.
-- Now the Trojans followed Hector son of Priam in close array like a storm-cloud or flame of fire, fighting with might and main and raising the cry battle; for they deemed that they should take the ships of the Achaeans and kill all their chiefest heroes then and there.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Between these main groups there were waverers and compromisers.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The black-faced man scram-bled up and staggered forward, going and leaning over the bulwark by the main shrouds, where he remained, panting and glaring over his shoulder at the dogs.
-- The main entrance to the enclosure we passed; it was a heavy wooden gate, framed in iron and locked, with the cargo of the launch piled outside it, and at the corner we came to a small doorway I had not previ-ously observed.
-- I stepped out of the door into the slumberous heat of the late afternoon, and walking past the main entrance locked again, I noticed turned the corner of the wall The crying sounded even louder out of doors.
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：
-- The scouts departed; strong guards preceded and followed the lumbering vehicles that bore the baggage; and before the gray light of the morning was mellowed by the rays of the sun, the main body of the combatants wheeled into column, and left the encampment with a show of high military bearing, that served to drown the slumber-ing apprehensions of many a novice, who was now about to make his first essay in arms.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Folks got up everywheres in the crowd, and worked their way just by main strength to the mourners' bench, with the tears running down their faces; and when all the mourners had got up there to the front benches in a crowd, they sung and shouted and flung themselves down on the straw, just crazy and wild.
-- 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.
-- Then the king begins to work his jaw again, and says how him and his nieces would be glad if a few of the main princi-pal friends of the family would take supper here with them this evening, and help set up with the ashes of the diseased; and says if his poor brother laying yonder could speak he knows who he would name, for they was names that was very dear to him, and mentioned often in his letters; and so he will name the same, to wit, as follows, vizz.
-- When I struck the town I see there warn't nobody out in the storm, so I never hunted for no back streets, but humped it straight through the main one; and when I begun to get towards our house I aimed my eye and set it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as Pinocchio no longer felt the shameful weight of the dog collar around his neck, he started to run across the fields and meadows, and never stopped till he came to the main road that was to take him to the Fairy's house.
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