1·Unemployment was the chief cause of poverty.
失业是贫穷的主要原因。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·Rainey's chief interest in life is hunting with hounds.
雷尼一生中的主要嗜好是带着猎犬去打猎。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·NATO remains the United States' chief institutional anchor in Europe.
北大西洋公约组织仍然是美国在欧洲的主要支柱机构。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·The index is the government's chief gauge of future economic activity.
这个指数是政府对未来经济活动的主要判断标准。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
5·The chief killer was the widely used DDT.
主要杀手是广泛使用的杀虫剂。
1·He sent a letter inviting Naomi to attend his installation as chief of his tribe.
他给娜奥米寄了封信，邀请她来参加他就任部落酋长的仪式。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·When Elema finished meeting with the chief, we headed back up to the ridge between two stream drainages.
等到埃莱玛与酋长的会面结束，我们一行人又折回到两条溪流之间的山脊上。
3·Since the young chief never learned the ways of his ancestors, he tells them to collect firewood, then he goes off and calls the National Weather Service. "Will the winter be bad?" he asks.
由于新酋长根本没有从祖先那里学到判断天气的方法，于是他在让部下去收集柴火的同时，跑去打电话询问国家气象局。
4·This month armed gangs stooped lower than ever by kidnapping toddlers for ransom, including a three-year-old Briton and the son of a prominent chief.
本月，武装群伙更是比以前“屈尊降贵”，竟然干起了绑架小孩的敲诈行径，包括了一位三岁英国孩童与一位卓越酋长的儿子。
5·The clan chief, apparently ill, stayed in his hut. While Elema went in to talk to him, White attempted a little dagu with a dyspeptic-looking young man, who soon walked away.
就在埃莱玛进屋和那位酋长交谈时，怀特试着和一位看起来有些消化不良的年青人“达谷”两下时，他却很快的跑开了。
1·In the longhouse, the tribe's chief influenced both political and religious affairs.
在长屋里，部落首领影响包括政治上的和宗教上的事务。
2·They said they would only let us through if we hired the chief and his brother as guides.
他们说如果我们雇用首领和他的兄弟作向导，他们才会让我们过去。
3·He retorted, "Who made you chief and ruler over us?"
那人说“谁立你作我们的首领和审判官呢？”
4·One felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre.
我们感到这个街垒的首领是一个几何学家或一个鬼怪。
5·He took us for tea with a Bedouin chief and showed us ancient carvings of his ancestors and their camels.
他带我们到贝都因首领那里去喝茶，给我们看祖先流传下来的雕刻，还有他的骆驼。
1·Women have a vague attitude, clearly know man lies will not reveal, while men knew she know man was lying, so a suspected unreal feeling, is really doubt the woman's biggest chief force.
女人要有一种暧昧的姿态，明明知道男人说谎也不会拆穿，而男人也知道她知道男人在说谎，如此一种疑幻疑真的感觉，是女人最大的魁力。