mainly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 主要地， 大体上，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：
-- The captain was among the most confident on board, but his confidence mainly arose from the longing desire he had to see Miss Mary happy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found their simple scale of honour was based mainly on the capacity for inflict-ing trenchant wounds.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The department hostile to Alexey Alexandrovitch proved that the condition of the native tribes was exceedingly flourishing, that the proposed reconstruction might be the ruin of their prosperity, and that if there were anything wrong, it arose mainly from the failure on the part of Alexey Alexandrovitch's department to carry out the measures prescribed by law.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.
-- They are free to marry or not, as they please; but it is worth noting that it is mainly the female citizens of Utah who are anxious to marry, as, according to the Mormon religion, maiden ladies are not admitted to the possession of its highest joys.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The child, a girl with long, golden curls, was an entire stranger to her father, mainly because she was brought up not in accord with his desires.
-- Her repeated refusal to accept his sacrifice was partly due to the fact that she wished to repeat those proud words which she had once told him, and mainly because she knew that their marriage would make him unhappy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was very high with him, mainly I think because Isaw Steerforth and Grainger laughing at me- or at him- or at bothof us.
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：
-- 'Tis a long and melancholy tradition, and one I little like to think of; for it is not to be denied that the evil has been mainly done by men with white skins.
-- It consists mainly in ready hand, a quick eye and a good cover.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The series of novels I projected being mainly of the kind called local, they seemed to require a territorial definition of some sort to lend unity to their scene.
-- ALL SAINTS' AND ALL SOULS'On a week-day morning a small congregation, consisting mainly of women and girls, rose from its knees in the mouldy nave of a church called All Saints', in the distant barrack-town before-mentioned, at the end of a service without a sermon.
-- The great mass of sheep in the fair consisted of South Downs and the old Wessex horned breeds; to the latter class Bathsheba's and Farmer Boldwood's mainly belonged.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On examination it was pronounced that she had received serious hurts, but that they of themselves were far from hopeless; the danger lay mainly in the nervous shock.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the contrary, it seemed, that mainly at Steelkilt's instigation, they had resolved to maintain the strictest peacefulness, obey all orders to the last, and, when the ship reached port, desert her in a body.
-- As the external difference between them is mainly observable in their heads; and as a head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequod's side; and as we may freely go from one to the other, by merely stepping across the deck: where, I should like to know, will you obtain a better chance to study practical cetology than here?
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.
-- I was boss of it; it all belonged to me, so to say, and I wanted to know all about it; but mainly I wanted to put in the time.
-- They had pictures hung on the walls mainly Wash- ingtons and Lafayettes, and battles, and High- land Marys, and one called 'Signing the Declaration.'
-- But mainly they don't do nothing.'
-- But as I was saying, we'd got all the work done now, at last; and we was all pretty much fagged out, too, but mainly Jim.
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