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：
-- You have not yet answered my question; what is our distance from the main army at Edward?'
-- How, now, my vigilant sentinel, can see any-thing of those you call the Iroquois, on the main land!'
-- Our main hope,' he continued, raising his rugged countenance, across which a shade of anxiety just then passed like a darkening cloud, 'will be to keep the rock until Munro can send a party to our help!God send it may be soon and under a leader that knows the Indian customs!'
-- Thither, then, the scout proceeded, like a prudent general, who was about to feel the advanced posi-tions of his enemy, before he hazarded the main attack.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The curious circumstances which led to the escape of the prisoners were as follows: That same year, in the month of February, 1865, in one of the coups de main by which General Grant attempted, though in vain, to possess himself of Richmond, several of his officers fell into the power of the enemy and were detained in the town.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides that it was very difficult to impart to any person not intimately acquainted with the life she led, an adequate sense of its gloom and loneliness, a constant fear of in some way committing or injuring the old man to whom she was so tenderly attached, had restrained her, even in the midst of her heart's overflowing, and made her timid of allusion to the main cause of her anxiety and distress.
-- In the shadow of an archway nearly opposite, leading to one of the many passages which diverged from the main street, there lingered one, who, having taken up his position when the twilight first came on, still maintained it with undiminished patience, and leaning against the wall with the manner of a person who had a long time to wait, and being well used to it was quite resigned, scarcely changed his attitude for the hour together.
-- In the smaller public-houses, fiddles with all their might and main were squeaking out the tune to staggering feet; drunken men, oblivious of the burden of their song, joined in a senseless howl, which drowned the tinkling of the feeble bell and made them savage for their drink; vagabond groups assembled round the doors to see the stroller woman dance, and add their uproar to the shrill flageolet and deafening drum.
-- As Frederick Trent himself, utterly regardless of his sister, had this object at heart, only second to the hope of gain, it seemed to him the more likely to be Quilp's main principle of action.
-- They trudged onward now, at a quicker pace, resolving to keep the main road, and go wherever it might lead them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The soldiers and prisoner descended the stairs and went in the direction of the main entrance.
-- He knew the main points of the poisoning case, and had already planned his speech; but he needed to know some particulars of which he was now making extracts from the papers.
-- The dark, smooth, resplendent head; the white dress with folds clinging to her graceful bust and undulating breast; those vermilion cheeks, those brilliant black eyes, and two main traits in all her being: the virgin purity of her love, not only for himself, but for everything and everybody--he knew it--not only the good and beautiful, but even that beggar whom she had kissed.
-- And before his imagination arose that common phenomenon of the appearance of a long absent, beloved face, which, after the first shock produced by the external changes which have taken place during the long absence, gradually becomes the same as it was many years ago--all the past changes disappear, and before the spiritual eyes stands forth the main expression of the peculiar spiritual individuality.
-- Nekhludoff listened and tried to understand the arguments in the case, but as in the Circuit Court, the chief difficulty in understanding what was going on was found in the fact that the discussion centered not on what appeared naturally to be the main point, but on side issues.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The main current ran rather swiftly, but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer.
-- There were fringes of ice along the sea margin, with drifting masses farther out; but the main expanse of that salt ocean, all bloody under the eternal sunset, was still unfrozen.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole schooner had been overhauled; six berths had been made astern out of what had been the after-part of the main hold; and this set of cabins was only joined to the galley and forecastle by a sparred passage on the port side.
-- It were a main place for pirates once, and a hand we had on board knowed all their names for it.
-- "It's a main cold morning, to be sure, sir, to sit outside upon the sand."
-- It was main hot, and the windy was open, and I hear that old song comin' out as clear as clear and the death-haul on the man already."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The story told by each one, entirely agreeing in the main points, convinced me of your identity.
-- But I can declare she is a man-of-war, for a long pennant flutters from her main mast."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two girls were soon walking swiftly down the main road of Beldover, a wide street, part shops, part dwelling-houses, utterly formless and sordid, without poverty.
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