基本释义
- adj.
- 最重要的; 主要的; 资本的; 本金的
- n.
- 校长; 主要演员，主角; [法]委托人，当事人; 本金
词性变化
- 复数:principals;
实用例句
The principal reason for this omission is lack of time.
跳过它的主要原因是时间不足。
牛津词典
New roads will link the principal cities of the area.
新建道路将连通这个地区的主要城市。
牛津词典
Peter Brown, principal of St John's college
彼得·布朗，圣约翰学院院长
牛津词典
Principal Ray Smith
雷·史密斯校长
牛津词典
The principal reason for my change of mind is this.
这是我改变主意的最主要原因。
...the country's principal source of foreign exchange earnings...
这个国家最主要的外汇收入来源
Donald King is the principal of Dartmouth High School.
唐纳德·金是达特茅斯中学的校长。
Familiar with FA procedure and testing standards.
熟悉FA流程和测试标准.
期刊摘选
There is a shortage of principal.
资金有些短缺.
《简明英汉词典》
When he saw the principal, he raised his hand in salutation.
他看到校长时举手敬礼.
《简明英汉词典》
A principal criminal fell into the net.
要犯落网.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
The game is up; the principal knows the boys have been smoking in the basement.
这下完了, 校长知道这些男孩们一直在地下室里抽烟.
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Drinking is a principal cause of highway deaths.
酗酒是公路死亡事故的最主要的原因.
《简明英汉词典》
The details of the principal cause are not known.
主因未详.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
The principal reproved the students for always staying away from school.
那个校长责备了那几个学生,因为他们总好逃学.
《用法词典》
The principal made another vain appeal for better equipment in the school laboratory.
校长又一次请求增加学校实验设备,但又是一场空.
《用法词典》
Ever since World War the United States has been Japan's principal trade partner.
二次世界大战以来,美国一直是日本的主要贸易伙伴.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
The judge examined the principal witness.
法官询问了主要证人.
《简明英汉词典》
There was no school play because the principal withheld his consent.
由于校长没同意,学校里没有举行比赛.
《简明英汉词典》
The principal castigate the student who have insult their teacher.
校长谴责对老师不敬的学生.
《简明英汉词典》
I must consult my principal.
我必须同委托人商量.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
The book was kindly and favourably reviewed in the principal papers.
这本书得到几家主要报纸的赞许和好评.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
The principal tried to quiet the students.
校长试图让学生们安静下来.
《简明英汉词典》
A group of students asked to see the principal.
一批学生要求见校长.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
真题例句
A Hills dale teacher who became principal last year, remembers sitting with other teachers watching students file out of a graduation ceremony and asking one another in astonishment, "How did that student graduate?
出自-2012年6月阅读原文However,while talking is largely subconscious and rapid, writing is deliberate and slow, Over time,writers took advantage of this and started crafting long-winded sentences such as this one:The whole engagement lasted above 12 hours, till the gradual retreat of the Persians was changed into a disorderly flight, of which the shameful example was given by the principal leaders and……" No one talks like that casually — or should
出自-2014年6月阅读原文In 2010,the Institution of Mechanical Engineers identified three principal emerging population groups across the world, based on characteristics associated with their current and projected stage of economic development.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文And so your next step should be to discuss your concerns with your teacher or the principal.
出自-2010年6月阅读原文The ninth-grader is advised to go to his teacher or the principal to discuss his concerns
出自-2010年6月阅读原文They found that the principal requirement for what is called “global cascades” -the widespread propagation of influence through networks -is the presence not of a few influentials but, rather, of a critical mass of easily influenced people.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文The United States is the product of two principal forces-the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits.
出自-2015年考研翻译原文In many parts of the world renewable energy is already a principal energy source.
2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section ⅡThey found that the principal requirement for what is called global cascades 一 the widespread propagation of influence through networks 一 is the presence not of a few influentials but, rather, of a critical mass of easily influenced people.
2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ英英释义
1. the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
2. the educator who has executive authority for a school;
"she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"
3. an actor who plays a principal role
4. capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
5. the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
1. most important element;
"the chief aim of living"
"the main doors were of solid glass"
"the principal rivers of America"
"the principal example"
"policemen were primary targets"
同义词辨析
chief, principal, main, major, leading, capital, foremost, primary
这些形容词均含有"首要的，主要的"之意。
headmaster, principal, president
这些名词均有"校长"之意。
- headmaster： 在英国指对中小学校长的一般称呼，尤指私立学校的校长。
- principal： 在英国可指大学校长、院长以及中小学校长，但在美国仅指中小学校长。
- president： 在美国专指大学的校长，在英国指学院院长。