secondary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 第二的, 中级的, 次要的，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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is much better for the writer, as a rule, to content himself with the bare statement of events; and we shall take this line with regard to the catastrophe recorded above, and shall state the remaining events connected with the general's trouble shortly, because we feel that we have already given to this secondary character in our story more attention than we originally intended.
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.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then in the case of exci-sions you have all kinds of secondary changes, pigmentary disturbances, modifications of the passions, alterations in the secretion of fatty tissue.
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：
-- Neither were the secondary actors in these momentous incidents forgotten.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the badly afflicted districts, he might give the phage to everyone, and if the disease slackened unusually, that would be a secondary proof.
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：
-- We may add only that the practical, purely material difficulties of the affair occupied a secondary posi-tion in his mind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As we arenot particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occasions,if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning ornecessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be buta great parade of them.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landed property of Hart-166 Emmafield certainly was inconsiderable, being but a sort of notch in the Donwell Abbey estate, to which all the rest of High-bury belonged; but their fortune, from other sources, was such as to make them scarcely secondary to Donwell Abbey itself, in every other kind of consequence; and the Wood-houses had long held a high place in the consideration of the neighbourhood which Mr. Elton had first entered not two years ago, to make his way as he could, without any alliances but in trade, or any thing to recommend him to notice but his situation and his civility. But he had fan-cied her in love with him; that evidently must have been his dependence; and after raving a little about the seeming incongruity of gentle manners and a conceited head, Emma was obliged in common honesty to stop and admit that her own behaviour to him had been so complaisant and oblig-ing, so full of courtesy and attention, as (supposing her real motive unperceived) might warrant a man of ordinary ob-servation and delicacy, like Mr. Elton, in fancying himself a very decided favourite.
-- My being saved from pain is a very secondary consideration.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For it may be argued with great plausibility that reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and that expectation in its only comfortable form that of absolute faith is practically an impossibility; whilst in the form of hope and the secondary compounds, patience, impatience, resolve, curiosity, it is a constant fluctuation between pleasure and pain.
-- Thunder was imminent, and, taking some secondary appearances into consideration, it was likely to be followed by one of the lengthened rains which mark the close of dry weather for the season.
-- It was the shadow of that tree, thrown across by a secondary flash in the west.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might dissect, anatomize, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in 35their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.
-- Clerval desired the intercourse of the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time, but this was with me a secondary object; I was principally occupied with the means of obtaining the information necessary for the completion of my promise and quickly availed myself of the letters of introduction that I had brought with me, ad-dressed to the most distinguished natural philosophers.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, now, she will never forgive me," said Maslenikoff, conducting his old comrade to the first landing, as he did with people of secondary importance, among whom he reckoned Nekhludoff.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that period of the world which preceded the secondary epoch, the earth was covered by a coating of enormous and rich vegetation, due to the double action of tropical heat and perpetual humidity.
-- "Because it is well known that animal life only existed on earth during the secondary period, when the sedimentary soil was formed by the alluviums, and thus replaced the hot and burning rocks of the primitive age."
-- The mammifers first disappeared, then the mighty birds, then the reptiles of the secondary period, presently the fish, the crustacea, the mollusks, and finally the vertebrata.
-- I have been trying to realize from memory the particular instincts of those antediluvian animals of the secondary period, which succeeding to the mollusca, to the crustacea, and to the fish, preceded the appearance of the race of mammifers.
-- These hideous monsters ruled everything in the seas of the secondary period, which formed the strata of which the Jura mountains are composed.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked about and tried to assure herself with the sight of a dozen such details, but, alas, the secondary thought arrived.
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