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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they slowly made their way through the mudholes of the town's chief street, she noted with interest all the newbuildings and the new faces.
-- Conditions in Wilmington, the chief blockade port,now that Charleston's port was practically sealed by the Yankee gunboats, had reached the proportions of an openscandal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While I looked about me here, an exceedingly dirty and partially drunk minister of justice asked me if I would like to step in and hear a trial or so: informing me that he could give me a front place for half a crown, whence I should command a full view of the Lord Chief Justice in his wig and robes,--mentioning that awful personage like waxwork, and presently offering him at the reduced price of eighteen-pence.
-- This was horrible, and gave me a sickening idea of London; the more so as the Lord Chief Justice's proprietor wore (from his hat down to his boots and up again to his pocket-handkerchief inclusive) mildewed clothes which had evidently not belonged to him originally, and which I took it into my head he had bought cheap of the executioner.
-- Poor dear Joe, entangled in a little black cloak tied in a large bow under his chin, was seated apart at the upper end of the room; where, as chief mourner, he had evidently been stationed by Trabb.
-- The Aged especially, might have passed for some clean old chief of a savage tribe, just oiled.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prince knew nothing of what was going on, till one day, when the king's chief huntsmen went a-hunting with him, and they were alone in the wood together, the huntsman 294 Grimms' Fairy Taleslooked so sorrowful that the prince said, 'My friend, what is the matter with you?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
-- This inventory I afterwards translated into English, and is, word for word, as follows: 'Imprimis: In the right coat-pocket of the great man-mountain' (for so I interpret the words quinbus flestrin,) 'after the strictest search, we found only one great piece of coarse-cloth, large enough to be a foot-cloth for your maj-esty's chief room of state.
-- Very often the chief ministers themselves are -commanded to show their skill, and to convince the emperor that they have not lost their faculty.
-- There I saw the empress and the young princes, in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.
-- But I shall not anticipate the reader with further de-scriptions of this kind, because I reserve them for a greater work, which is now almost ready for the press; containing a general description of this empire, from its first erection, through along series of princes; with a particular account of their wars and politics, laws, learning, and religion; their plants and animals; their peculiar manners and customs, with other matters very curious and useful; my chief design at present being only to relate such events and transactions as happened to the public or to myself during a residence of about nine months in that empire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vagabond, errand-boy, vagabond, labourer, porter, clerk, chief manager, small partner, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown.
-- Made up with curls, wreaths, wings, white bismuth, and carmine, this hopeful young person soared into so pleasing a Cupid as to constitute the chief delight of the maternal part of the spectators; but in private, where his characteristics were a precocious cutaway coat and an extremely gruff voice, he became of the Turf, turfy.
-- Gold and silver coin, precious paper, secrets that if divulged would bring vague destruction upon vague persons (generally, however, people whom she disliked), were the chief items in her ideal catalogue thereof.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 5 First Lessons in Climbing At Altona, a suburb of Hamburg, is the Chief Station of the Kiel railway, which was to take us to the shores of the Belt.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the chief inns was the Chatterley Arms.
-- However, the Prince had been a King, and the King had died, and now there was another King, whose chief func-tion seemed to be to open soup-kitchens.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They bore the trying spectacle in silence, until the mysterious visitor was at a safe distance; when they burst into pebbles and yells, and likewise into reviling dances, and in all respects buried the pipe of peace with so many savage ceremonies, that, if Mr Cripples had been the chief of the Cripplewayboo tribe with his war-paint on, they could scarcely have done greater justice to their education.
-- Go out and ask who is the chief person in the place.
-- The chief butler was the next magnificent institution of the day.
-- That gentleman, after looking at the table-cloth until the soul of the chief butler glowed with a noble resentment, went slowly up after the rest, and became of no account in the stream of people on the grand staircase.
-- To pass in and out of the prison unnoticed, and elsewhere to be overlooked and forgotten, were, for herself, her chief desires.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These boots, an old foil, and a slashed doublet once used by an artist for some picture, were Jo's chief treasures and appeared on all occasions.
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