chief是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 领袖; 部门主任; a. 主要的, 首席的，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：
-- The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, the gaol was a vile place, in which most kinds of debauchery and villainy were prac-tised, and where dire diseases were bred, that came into court with the prisoners, and sometimes rushed straight from the dock at my Lord Chief Justice himself, and pulled him off the bench.
-- That Provi-dence, however, had put it into the heart of a person who was beyond fear and beyond reproach, to ferret out the na-ture of the prisoner's schemes, and, struck with horror, to disclose them to his Majesty's Chief Secretary of State and most honourable Privy Council.
-- Any strongly marked expression of face on the part of a chief actor in a scene of great interest to whom many eyes are directed, will be unconsciously imitated by the specta-tors.
-- Sessions and Old Bailey had now to summon their favourite, specially, to their long-ing arms; and shouldering itself towards the visage of the Lord Chief Justice in the Court of King's Bench, the florid countenance of Mr. Stryver might be daily seen, bursting out of the bed of wigs, like a great sunflower pushing its way 119at the sun from among a rank garden-full of flaring com-panions.
-- It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous dec-oration, and the Chief of them unable to exist with fewer than two gold watches in his pocket, emulative of the no-ble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur, to conduct the happy chocolate to Monseigneur's lips.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The canopy which is to be borne over your Majesty, in the procession, is waiting,' announced the chief master of the ceremonies.
-- Light and air con-52 Andersen's Fairy Talestend with chivalric emulation for the love of the fair flower that bestowed her chief favors on the latter; full of longing she turned towards the light, and as soon as it vanished, rolled her tender leaves together and slept in the embraces of the air.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although Stepan Arkadyevitch was completely in the wrong as regards his wife, and was conscious of this himself, almost every one in the house (even the nurse, Darya Alexandrovna's chief ally) was on his side.
-- Excuse me a minute..." A secretary came in, with respectful familiarity and the modest consciousness, characteristic of every secretary, of superiority to his chief in the knowledge of their business; he went up to Oblonsky with some papers, and began, under pretense of asking a question, to explain some objection.
-- As he listened to his brother's argument with the professor, he noticed that they connected these scientific questions with those spiritual problems, that at times they almost touched on the latter; but every time they were close upon what seemed to him the chief point, they promptly beat a hasty retreat, and plunged again into a sea of subtle distinctions, reservations, quotations, allusions, and appeals to authorities, and it was with difficulty that he understood what they were talking about.
-- "You've come, that's the chief thing.
-- "And so we're founding a locksmiths' association, where all the production and profit and the chief instruments of production will be in common."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not far off rose Ellora, with its graceful pagodas, and the famous Aurungabad, capital of the ferocious Aureng-Zeb, now the chief town of one of the detached provinces of the kingdom of the Nizam.
-- A big brawny fellow with a red beard, flushed face, and broad shoulders, who seemed to be the chief of the band, raised his clenched fist to strike Mr. Fogg, whom he would have given a crushing blow, had not Fix rushed in and received it in his stead.
-- But this did not disconcert the enthusiast, who proceeded with the story of Joseph Smith's bankruptcy in 1837, and how his ruined creditors gave him a coat of tar and feathers; his reappearance some years afterwards, more honourable and honoured than ever, at Independence, Missouri, the chief of a flourishing colony of three thousand disciples, and his pursuit thence by outraged Gentiles, and retirement into the Far West.
-- Thus he learned that, after long persecutions, Smith reappeared in Illinois, and in 1839 founded a community at Nauvoo, on the Mississippi, numbering twenty-five thousand souls, of which he became mayor, chief justice, and general-in-chief; that he announced himself, in 1843, as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States; and that finally, being drawn into ambuscade at Carthage, he was thrown into prison, and assassinated by a band of men disguised in masks.
-- It seemed to him a terrible thing to have to guide so many wives at once across the vicissitudes of life, and to conduct them, as it were, in a body to the Mormon paradise with the prospect of seeing them in the company of the glorious Smith, who doubtless was the chief ornament of that delightful place, to all eternity.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now that most of his Arts classmates had departed to insurance offices, law schools, and banks, he was lonely, and tempted by an invitation from Digamma Pi, the chief medical fraternity.
-- Her father, Andrew Jackson Tozer, sometimes known as Jackass Tozer; owner of the bank, of the creamery, and an elevator, therefore the chief person in town; pious at Wednesday evening prayer-meeting, fussing over every penny he gave to Leora or her mother.
-- In six years at Mohalis, Martin had gone to less than a score of dances, though the refined titillations of communal embracing were the chief delight of the co-educational university.
-- Their chief appetizer was Clif Clawson.
-- To Martin came the chief reporter of the Advocate-Times.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 62 Crime and PunishmentChapter IV is mother's letter had been a torture to him, but as re-Hgards the chief fact in it, he had felt not one moment's hesitation, even whilst he was reading the letter.
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