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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Potatau was an old man, remarkable rather for cunning than bravery; but he had a Prime Minister who was both intelligent and energetic, a descendant of the Ngatihahuas, who occupied the isthmus before the arrival of the strangers.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to age, General Epanchin was in the very prime of life; that is, about fifty-five years of age, the flowering time ofexistence, when real enjoyment of life begins.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover I know well, O Priam, and you cannot hide it, that some god has brought you to the ships of the Achaeans, for else, no man however strong and in his prime would dare to come to our host; he could neither pass our guard unseen, nor draw the bolt of my gates thus easily; therefore, provoke me no further, lest I sin against the word of Jove, and suffer you not, suppliant though you are, within my tents.'
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：
-- 'It would be an unequal exchange, to give a warrior, in the prime of his age and usefulness, for the best woman on the frontiers.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But connected with you two is a third party, a villain of the name of Quilp, the prime mover of the whole diabolical device, who I believe to be worse than either.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I came out of this age of ours, this ripe prime of the human race, when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's the very prime of the morning gone long before that time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never did see such prime company as that 'ere boy; he'll be the death of me, I know he will.'
-- Cunning, ferocity, and drunkeness in all its stages, were there, in their strongest aspect; and women: some with the last lingering tinge of their early freshness almost fading as you looked: others with every mark and stamp of their sex utterly beaten out, and presenting but one loathsome blank of profligacy and crime; some mere girls, others but young women, and none past the prime of life; formed the darkest and saddest portion of this dreary picture.
-- It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'All right, doctor,' says the king, kinder mocking him; 'we'll try and get 'em to send for you;' which made them all laugh, and they said it was a prime good hit.
-- Yes, it's a prime good idea.
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