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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The men were no less than Kerick Booterin, the chief of the seal-hunters on the island, and Patalamon, his son.
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：
-- They had recently seen a chosen army from that country, which, reverencing as a mother, they had blindly believed invincible an army led by a chief who had been selected from a crowd of trained warriors, for his rare military en-dowments, disgracefully routed by a handful of French and Indians, and only saved from annihilation by the coolness and spirit of a Virginian boy, whose riper fame has since diffused itself, with the steady influence of moral truth, to the uttermost confines of Christendom.
-- Foot by foot, they were driven back from the shores, until I, that am a chief and a Sagamore, have never seen the sun shine but through the trees, and have never visited the graves of my fathers.'
-- 'And what account will Le Renard give the chief of Wil-liam Henry concerning his daughters?
-- Had there been one there sufficiently disengaged to become aclose observer, he might have fancied that the services of the young chief were not entirely impartial.
-- speak-ing in Delaware to the young chief as he re-entered, 'what see you?
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chief part of the stories, however, turned upon the favorite spectre of Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horse-man, who had been heard several times of late, patrolling the country; and, it was said, tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard.
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：
-- "Several people have suggested that she should go on the stage, but of course I couldn't consent to that, I know all the chief dramatists, and I could get her a part to-morrow, but I shouldn't like her to mix with all sorts of people."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, my boy," said he to Herbert, "if I don't know the name of these trees, at any rate I reckon that we may call them 'burning wood,' and just now that's the chief thing we want."
-- The chief material was clay, to which Harding added a little lime and quartz.
-- The front of Granite House was then to be lighted by five windows and a door, besides a large bay window and some smaller oval ones, which would admit plenty of light to enter into the marvelous nave which was to be their chief room.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Brigand, heretofore a source of exclusive interest in the streets, became a mere secondary consideration, and to be important only as a part of the show of which she was the chief attraction.
-- These artless sports had naturally soothed and cheered the decline of her widowed father: a most exemplary gentleman (called 'old Foxey' by his friends from his extreme sagacity,) who encouraged them to the utmost, and whose chief regret, on finding that he drew near to Houndsditch churchyard, was, that his daughter could not take out an attorney's certificate and hold a place upon the roll.
-- But all happiness has an end hence the chief pleasure of its next beginning and as it was now growing late, they agreed it was time to turn their faces homewards.
-- The noise of this vocal performance awakened the other man, who, staggering upon deck and shaking his late opponent by the hand, swore that singing was his pride and joy and chief delight, and that he desired no better entertainment.
-- That boy, my good sir, would break his neck with pleasure, and deprive his parents of their chief comfort and between ourselves, when you come to see him at hare and hounds, taking the fence and ditch by the finger-post, and sliding down the face of the little quarry, you'll never forget it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You certainly cannot stick to two things," said the chief warden, with official assurance of his own wit.
-- "These girls are rogues," said the clerk, and to sustain his opinion that Maslova was the chief culprit, he related how one of those girls once stole a watch from a friend of his.
-- It was reported to the Governor that something like a mutiny occurred, and in answer came a document ordering that the two chief culprits, Vasilieff and the tramp Don'tremember (an application given to some tramps and jail birds who, to conceal the identity, with characteristic ingenuity and stupidity make that answer to all questions relating to their names), be given thirty lashes each.
-- And as though justifying himself, he began to recount all the conveniences enjoyed by the prisoners in a manner to make one believe that the chief aim of the institution consisted in making it a pleasant place of abode.
-- Immediately behind the Senators came the Chief Secretary and Associate Attorney General.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of all the beggar-men that I had seen or fancied, he was the chief for raggedness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The taller of the two, evidently the chief on board, examined us with great attention, without saying a word; then, turning to his companion, talked with him in an unknown tongue.
-- They directed their course towards the Solomon Islands, and there perished, with everything, on the westerly coast of the chief island of the group, between Capes Deception and Satisfaction."
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