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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chief thing is he is 'a man of business and seems kind,' that was some-thing, wasn't it, to send the bags and big box for them!A kind man, no doubt after that!But his bride and her moth-er are to drive in a peasant's cart covered with sacking (I know, I have been driven in it).
-- 'The chief thing is,' Raskolnikov persisted, 'to keep her out of this scoundrel's hands!Why should he outrage her!
-- He was thinking of the chief point, and put off trifling details, until he could believe in it all.
-- He had come gradually to many different and curious conclusions, and in his opinion the chief reason lay not so much in the material impossi-bility of concealing the crime, as in the criminal himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The exertion this cost him, or theconsciousness of talking in that feeble way, made his angry face so 83much more angry, and his thick veins so much thicker, when hespoke, that I am not surprised, on looking back, at this peculiaritystriking me as his chief one.
-- I was their chief exponent, and opened Mr.Barkis's mind to an amazing extent.
-- 'The chief evil of their presence in the house,' said Agnes, 'is that Icannot be as near papa as I could wish- Uriah Heep being so muchbetween us- and cannot watch over him, if that is not too bold athing to say, as closely as I would.
-- As I followed the chief waiter with my eyes, I could not helpthinking that the garden in which he had gradually grown to bethe flower he was, was an arduous place to rise in.
-- Iglanced about the room, which had had its sanded floor sanded, nodoubt, in exactly the same manner when the chief waiter was aboy- if he ever was a boy, which appeared improbable; and at theshining tables, where I saw myself reflected, in unruffled depths ofold mahogany; and at the lamps, without a flaw in their trimmingor cleaning; and at the comfortable green curtains, with their purebrass rods, snugly enclosing the boxes; and at the two large coalfires, brightly burning; and at the rows of decanters, burly as ifwith the consciousness of pipes of expensive old port wine below;and both England, and the law, appeared to me to be very difficultindeed to be taken by storm.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If one could ascertain what the chief of them the Coles, for instance.
-- 'I shall hear about you all,' said he; that is my chief con-solation.
-- Mr. Woodhouse was quite at ease; and the seeing him so, with the arrival of the little boys and the philosophic composure of her brother on hearing his fate, removed the chief of even Emma's vexation.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Jan Coggan, who had passed the cup to Henery, was a crimson man with a spacious countenance and private glimmer in his eye, whose name had appeared on the marriage register of Weatherbury and neighbouring parishes as best man and chief witness in countless unions of the previous twenty years; he also very frequently filled the post of head godfather in baptisms of the subtly-jovial kind.
-- OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS SNOW A MEETINGFor dreariness nothing could surpass a prospect in the outskirts of a certain town and military station, many miles north of Weatherbury, at a later hour on this same snowy evening if that may be called a prospect of which the chief constituent was darkness.
-- Bathsheba took from her desk a gorgeously illuminated and embossed design in post-octavo, which had been bought on the previous market-day at the chief stationer's in Casterbridge.
-- This unwonted abstraction by love of all dignity from a man of whom it had ever seemed the chief component, was, in its distressing incongruity, a pain to her which quenched much of the pleasure she derived from the proof that she was idolized.
-- The water accumulated and washed deeper down, and the roar of the pool thus formed spread into the night as the head and chief among other noises of the kind created by the deluging rain.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had no temptation for such an action; as to the bauble on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnestly desired it, I should have willingly given it to her, so much do I esteem and value her.'
-- But my chief delights were the sight of the flowers, the birds, and all the gay ap-parel of summer; when those deserted me, I turned with 156 Frankensteinmore attention towards the cottagers.
-- I had sagacity enough to discover that the unnatu-ral hideousness of my person was the chief object of horror with those who had formerly beheld me.
-- The rivers were covered with ice, and no fish could be procured; and thus I was cut off from my chief article of maintenance.
-- We were in the most imminent peril, but as we could only remain passive, my chief atten-tion was occupied by my unfortunate guest whose illness increased in such a degree that he was entirely confined to his bed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She did not even feel his pinch, for she could hear clearly the sweet voice that was Melanie's chief charm: "I fear Icannot agree with you about Mr. Thackeray's works.
-- Now, in response to the needs of war, Atlanta had become amanufacturing center, a hospital base and one of the South's chief depots for the collecting of food and supplies for thearmies in the field.
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