prime是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 主要的; 最好的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was older now; a man in the prime of life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When this expression was upon him, he looked as if he were old; but when it was stirred and broken up as it was now, in a moment, on his speaking to his daughter he became a handsome man, not past the prime of life.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt this at the mere sight of Ignat and the horses; but when he had put on the sheepskin brought for him, had sat down wrapped in the sledge, and had driven off pondering on the work that lay before him in the village, and staring at the side-horse, that had been his saddle-horse, past his prime now, but a spirited beast from the Don, he began to see what had happened to him in quite a different light.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wasa woman in the prime of life; of a severe countenance; and subject(particularly in the arms) to a sort of perpetual measles or fieryrash.
-- 'Why, there's Copperfield, mother,' he angrily retorted, pointinghis lean finger at me, against whom all his animosity was levelled,as the prime mover in the discovery; and I did not undeceive him;'there's Copperfield, would have given you a hundred pound tosay less than you've blurted out!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The coming of her sister's family was so very near at hand, that first in anticipation, and then in reality, it became henceforth her prime object of interest; and dur-ing the ten days of their stay at Hartfield it was not to be expected she did not herself expect that any thing be-yond occasional, fortuitous assistance could be afforded by her to the lovers.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba, with a sad, bursting heart, looked at these primest specimens of her prime flock as they rolled there Swoln with wind and the rank mist they drew.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet for all that, I remember feeling convinced that I had been much mistaken in him, and that he was a sensible, practical, good-hearted prime fellow.
-- I found out within a few hours, and may mention at once, that Mrs. Pocket was the only daughter of a certain quite accidental deceased Knight, who had invented for himself a conviction that his deceased father would have been made a Baronet but for somebody's determined opposition arising out of entirely personal motives,--I forget whose, if I ever knew,--the Sovereign's, the Prime Minister's, the Lord Chancellor's, the Archbishop of Canterbury's, anybody's,--and had tacked himself on to the nobles of the earth in right of this quite supposititious fact.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last we entered the palace, and proceeded into the 199chamber of presence, where I saw the king seated on his throne, attended on each side by persons of prime quality.
-- I was told that a great court lady, who had several children, is married to the prime min-ister, the richest subject in the kingdom, a very graceful person, extremely fond of her, and lives in the finest pal-ace of the island, went down to Lagado on the pretence of health, there hid herself for several months, till the king sent a warrant to search for her; and she was found in an obscure eating-house all in rags, having pawned her clothes 207to maintain an old deformed footman, who beat her every day, and in whose company she was taken, much against her will.
-- These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters: for instance, they can discover a close stool, to signify a privy council; a flock of geese, a senate; a lame dog, an invader; the plague, a standing army; a buzzard, a prime minister; the gout, a high priest; a gibbet, a secretary of state; a cham-ber pot, a committee of grandees; a sieve, a court lady; a broom, a revolution; a mouse-trap, an employment; a bot-tomless pit, a treasury; a sink, a court; a cap and bells, a favourite; a broken reed, a court of justice; an empty tun, a general; a running sore, the administration.
-- That the question therefore was not, whether a man would choose to be always in the prime of youth, attended with prosperity and health; but how he would pass a perpetual life under all the usual disadvantages which old age brings along with it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then came Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby, the two gentlemen at this present moment walking through Coketown, and both eminently practical, who could, on occasion, furnish more tabular statements derived from their own personal experience, and illustrated by cases they had known and seen, from which it clearly appeared in short, it was the only clear thing in the case that these same people were a bad lot altogether, gentlemen; that do what you would for them they were never thankful for it, gentlemen; that they were restless, gentlemen; that they never knew what they wanted; that they lived upon the best, and bought fresh butter; and insisted on Mocha coffee, and rejected all but prime parts of meat, and yet were eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Other similar jawbones, though belonging to individuals of varied types and very different natures, had been found in the movable grey sands of certain grottoes in France, Switzerland, and Belgium; together with arms, utensils, tools, bones of children, of men in the prime of life, and of old men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And if any pleasure,' she said after a short pause, 'could arise for me out of the disappointment of my expectations that my son, in the prime of his life, would infuse new youth and strength into it, and make it of great profit and power, it would be in advancing an old and faithful servant.
-- 'Look,' said he, in his former tone, 'at this gentleman our host, not yet in the prime of life, who in so graceful a way and with such courtly urbanity and modesty presides over us!Manners fit for a crown!Dine with the Lord Mayor of London (if you can get an invitation) and observe the contrast.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I've known it long enough to lose my dread and be happy working for those I love, and don't call yourself old forty is the prime of life.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS.
-- I know that, to the common apprehension, this phenomenon of whiteness is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror of objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there aught of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind almost solely consists in this one phenomenon, especially when exhibited under any form at all approaching to muteness or universality.
-- Having impulsively, it is probable, and perhaps somewhat prematurely revealed the prime but private purpose of the Pequod's voyage, Ahab was now entirely conscious that, in so doing, he had indirectly laid himself open to the unanswerable charge of usurpation; and with perfect impunity, both moral and legal, his crew if so disposed, and to that end competent, could refuse all further obedience to him, and even violently wrest from him the command.
-- Once a vagabond on his own canal, I have received good turns from one of these Canallers; I thank him heartily; would fain be not ungrateful; but it is often one of the prime redeeming qualities of your man of violence, that at times he has as stiff an arm to back a poor stranger in a strait, as to plunder a wealthy one.
-- We all know how they live upon whales, and have rare old vintages of prime old train oil.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A prime plant,' observed Master Charley Bates.
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