cardinal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 主要的, 基本的; n. 深红色; 基数，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I should go to bed at midnight," he lamented, "but it is a cardinal sin to interrupt good talk.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In truth, we soon found that our host did not count civility among the cardinal virtues.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a word, it was represented (Clennam called to mind, alone in the ticking parlour) that many people select their models, much as the painters, just now mentioned, select theirs; and that, whereas in the Royal Academy some evil old ruffian of a Dog-stealer will annually be found embodying all the cardinal virtues, on account of his eyelashes, or his chin, or his legs (thereby planting thorns of confusion in the breasts of the more observant students of nature), so, in the great social Exhibition, accessories are often accepted in lieu of the internal character.
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