Principal

(noun.) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account.

(noun.) the educator who has executive authority for a school; 'she sent unruly pupils to see the principal'.

(noun.) (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement.

(noun.) capital as contrasted with the income derived from it.

(noun.) the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated.

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• Fish is one of the principal articles with which the North Americans trade to Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• You should know that I am not the principal here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• What the Cape of Good Hope is between Europe and every part of the East Indies, Batavia is between the principal countries of the East Indies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He had been to the Opera, and knew the merits of the principal actors, preferring Mr. Kean to Mr. Kemble. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The principal productions of these towns,' says Mr. Pickwick, 'appear to be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dockyard men. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• They are the work of servants and labourers who derive the principal part of their subsistence from some other employment. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• After small proprietors, however, rich and great farmers are in every country the principal improvers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The greater the refractive power of the lens, the greater the bending, and the nearer the principal focus to the lens. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The principal reason why natural abilities are esteemed, is because of their tendency to be useful to the person, who is possessed of them. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• In those days the principal expense of the sovereign seems to have consisted in the maintenance of his own family and household. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But anyone who makes the tariff the principal concern of statecraft is, I believe, mistaking the hedge for the house. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The principal Greek works on science had been translated into Syrian. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The principal part of the outfit was the electric motor. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The more he suffers, the more averse he will be to me, having made me the principal representative of the great occasion of his suffering. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Ford's was the principal woollen-draper, linen-draper, and haberdasher's shop united; the shop first in size and fashion in the place. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Next moment they quietly eyed each other, as if they, the principals, had had no part in that expressive transaction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• We may place our men, then, I think,' observed the officer, with as much indifference as if the principals were chess-men, and the seconds players. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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