| 单词 | principal |
| 释义 | principal (prɪnsɪpəl ) Word forms: principals 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1+ Principal means first in order of importance. The principal reason for my change of mind is this. ...the country's principal source of foreign exchange earnings. Their principal concern is bound to be that of winning the next general election. Synonyms: main, leading, chief, prime 2. countable noun B2 The principal of a school, or in Britain the principal of a college, is the person in charge of the school or college. Donald King is the principal of Dartmouth High School. [+ of] Collocations: principal asset He should count on his undoubted substance as his principal asset. Times, Sunday Times The ability to trade up one's principal asset over the course of a generation or more was a key factor in social mobility. Times, Sunday Times They make little sense in the digital era when the principal assets may be intellectual property. Times,Sunday Times The global corporation tax rules were designed for an age when the principal assets of businesses were physical entities such as factories. Times,Sunday Times Certainty and a degree of showmanship have been his principal assets. Times, Sunday Times The resultant gaming of risk-rated assets in the mortgage market and beyond was a principal cause of the crash. Times, Sunday Times Injury and a loss of form from the fly-half has been the principal cause of this. Times, Sunday Times The principal cause of encouragement was a rare movement in the right direction on both the two great sources of our current woes - financial instability and oil prices. Times, Sunday Times If sources of systemic change resistance are present, they are the principal cause of individual change resistance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The complete lack of government policies on conservation was the principal cause of this depletion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Loyalty was always the principal feature of her character. Times, Sunday Times Minerals often have a highly distinctive fracture, making it a principal feature used in their identification. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Six farms were present in 1935, as documented in principal feature maps. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A principal feature of these cabins was the overhanging roof supported by large eaves brackets which served to protect the window sashes from the weather. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The principal feature was the increase in engine size from 2.003 to 2.166-litres. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The principal function of the monarchy was originally war. Times, Sunday Times Many other proteins bind calcium, although binding calcium may not be considered their principal function in the cell. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its principal function on these rockets was to make navigation calculations using data from inertial sensor systems. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The principal function of the county was to impose royal control in the areas of taxation, security and the administration of justice at the local level. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Think about the three principal functions: food storage, preparation and cooking. Times, Sunday Times The orchestra's trumpeted principal guest conductor has talent in plenty, but its effect can be contradictory in performances of the central classical repertoire. Times, Sunday Times The master bedroom and principal guest room are double aspect and en suite. Times, Sunday Times His evening concert with the orchestra of which he was principal guest conductor from 1985 to 1988 was an exhilarating display of compositional immaculateness. Times, Sunday Times Numerous fluffed entries and ragged chords suggest that this orchestra and its principal guest conductor need to get back to basics urgently. Times, Sunday Times He held the title of principal guest conductor with the orchestra for the 2012-2013 season. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Along with their principal purpose of offering enchantment, they find themselves, whether they choose to or not, playing a larger role. Times, Sunday Times Such learning, broad and deep, might have obscured but in fact clarifies the book's principal purpose and grounds its claims. The Times Literary Supplement And isn't inquiry the principal purpose of a university? Times, Sunday Times Indeed, that was the principal purpose of pleadings. Times, Sunday Times These were associations whose principal purpose was to encourage those who had finished school, particularly members of the working class, to continue their education. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet the principal reason was a fall in inflation, so that growth in nominal incomes and real incomes roughly matched. Times, Sunday Times I love gardens and flowers for the principal reason that there need be no rules. Times, Sunday Times The principal reason given was that that was the natural meaning of the word. Times, Sunday Times The public blame the lack of deterrent as the principal reason for their fears over crime, even though recorded offences have declined in recent years. Times, Sunday Times Local sightings of him at a discotheque the previous night and into the early morning turned out to be the principal reason for his late start. Times, Sunday Times People are considering having a bolthole in town and a principal residence in the country. Times,Sunday Times The amended return should restate the nontaxable amount of the housing allowance to reflect housing expenses only on the pastor's principal residence. Christianity Today Alas, for her, the change of her 'principal residence' turned out to be one flip too many. Times, Sunday Times A restrictive covenant put on the property when it was granted planning permission states it cannot be used as a principal residence. Times, Sunday Times The value of your principal residence reduced by a 20 per cent exemption and by permitted costs, such as your mortgage. Times, Sunday Times Long used for cooking, cosmetics and soap, it has now become a principal source of biodiesel fuel. Times, Sunday Times (2009) That has been a principal source of the rise in the polls of the Yes campaign. Times, Sunday Times (2014) We will want to move around the world which is our home and our principal source of wonder. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet (2007) His lack of religious sentiment was the principal source of discord with his wife. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America (2004) They also represent the principal source of primary inoculum for some phytopathogenic fungi. 2015, 'Association of Fungal Secondary Metabolism and Sclerotial Biology', Frontiers in Microbiology He was a principal sponsor of provisions on social and economic rights, civil and political rights, and anti-corruption provisions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was an anti-monopolist and a proponent of the graduated income tax and principal sponsor of free coinage of silver. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They continued as her principal sponsor when she moved to the other car numbers in 1993 and 1994. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Perhaps it will yet be prompted by its principal sponsors. Times, Sunday Times They are the principal sponsors and/or collaborators in building and sustaining their community empowerment theory of change. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The principal target of section 216 was the phoenix company, but the application of the section could apply to pre-existing companies as well. Times, Sunday Times Expect housing benefit to be a principal target but it will not be enough on its own. Times, Sunday Times His active intervention in rigging elections in favor of the conservatives made him into the principal target of the opposition. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Neutrophils are the principal targets of gliotoxin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although the dockyards were the principal targets, much of the city centre and over 3,700 houses were completely destroyed and more than 1,000 civilians lost their lives. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their principal task was to educate in the seminaries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its principal tasks would be to establish a constitutional convention and to hold the fort while the new constitutional arrangements are being agreed. Times, Sunday Times The information on the developed film was to be subsequently processed in the laboratory on equipment still to be devised as a principal task of the project. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In an interview a few weeks later he declared that 'the fight against forgetting' would remain one of his principal tasks. Times, Sunday Times Lovely warm colours from the lower strings, but where was the rhythmic profile of that surging principal theme? Times, Sunday Times Once past the liquid principal theme, the third movement bore ahead like a dentist's drill. Times, Sunday Times The inclusion of the spectacles in this picture turns this process of looking into the principal theme. Times, Sunday Times The principal theme of the judgment, however, was that the parties were free to make whatever agreement they liked. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In rondo form, a principal theme (sometimes called the refrain) alternates with one or more contrasting themes, generally called episodes, but also occasionally referred to as digressions or couplets. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was then charged with robbery under arms, but the principal witness could not be located and the charges were dismissed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The accused said that they had been forced from their cells to appear in court, allegations also voiced by the day's two principal witnesses. Times, Sunday Times Big trials usually involve big personalities, from the judge, to the opposing silks, to the accused and the principal witnesses. Times, Sunday Times So why did the police take so long to show one of their few principal witnesses the e-fit of the couple? Times, Sunday Times The principal witnesses and critics refused to take part because the security services were to give evidence in secret. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 主要的, 校长 Japanese: 主な, 校長 |
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