| 单词 | chief |
| 释义 | chief I. 1. a. obsolete b. heraldry (1) (2) 2. a. b. < chief of mission > also c. < Chief of Staff > < Chief of Ordnance > d. < Chief of Police > < Fire Chief > e. 3. < this London where the chief of his life must pass — John Galsworthy > • - in chief II. 1. < chief executive > : superior in authority, power, or influence < chief prelate of our church, archbishop, first in council — Alfred Tennyson > 2. < his chief fame rests on his important volumes — A.V.W.Jackson > 3. now chiefly Scotland < a whisperer separates chief friends — Prov 16:28 (Revised Standard Version) > Synonyms: < so many young people of today have lost sight of the fact that duty, not pleasure, is the chief aim of living — Ellen Glasgow > < one of the performances I remember extremely vividly, because the chief turn consisted of four performing elephants — Osbert Sitwell > principal is likely to indicate greatest importance or power and influence, with other matters as minor < after summing all the rest, religion ruling in the breast, a principal ingredient — William Cowper > < the central point of interest, unforgotten, absorbing, principal — Matthew Arnold > < the country of the Shilluk is almost entirely in grass, hence the principal wealth of the people consists in their flocks and herds — J.G.Frazer > main stresses greater size, power, or importance < the main line express services tended to further this concentration, and the feeder lines and cross country services ran down, died out, or were deliberately extirpated — Lewis Mumford > < the literary critic … will yet find, like the historian, his main subject-matter in the past — L.P.Smith > leading stresses precedence or coming before others in a series, sequence, or progression < if John of Gaunt was fallen from his old power he was still the leading noble in the realm — J.R.Green > < Massachusetts furnished one of the leading defenders of the disturbing views of Darwin in the person of Asa Gray Fisher, professor of botany at Harvard — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > foremost is often the equivalent of leading but may more strongly suggest the notion of a course, race, chase, or contest < within a year the Bulletin had outstripped all other papers in the city, winning recognition as the foremost champion of the people's right — American Guide Series: California > < the clock has been the foremost machine in modern technics: and at each period it has remained in the lead: it marks a perfection toward which other machines aspire — Lewis Mumford > capital stresses the idea of major significance or importance < the capital as well as the trivial sins — Henry Miller > III. archaic |
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