She was a woman of thirty-seven, rather tall and plump, without being fat; she was not pretty, but her face was pleasing, chiefly, perhaps, on account of her kind brown eyes.

思特里克兰德太太这一年三十七岁，身材略高，体态丰腴，但又不显得太胖。她生得并不美，但面庞很讨人，这可能主要归功于她那双棕色的、非常和蔼的眼睛。

They're actually sharpest right at birth, and they're so innate that newborns orient themselves chiefly by scent.

它们在人出生时就最锋利了，它们是如此先天，以至于新生儿主要靠气味来定位自己。

Wearing bright colors is also not a wise choice, since she hunts by both sight and smell, the latter depending chiefly on the amount of carbon dioxide exhaled by the potential target.

穿亮色衣服也不是个好选择，因为她挑选猎物靠的是视觉和嗅觉，后者尤其着重潜在目标呼出的二氧化碳含量。

Our environment is chiefly conditioned by the things we believe.

我们的环境主要件是由我们信任的事物限定的。

Nor is NAFTA chiefly responsible for the woes of the American worker.

然而对于美国的工人来说，北美自由贸易协定并不是他们痛苦的主要来源。

Last year North Korea sold over $1 billion of minerals to China, chiefly coal.

去年朝鲜向中国销售了总价值超过10亿美元以煤炭为主的矿物。

It is found chiefly in hilly districts, which it loves better than the plains.

斑马主要分布于丘陵地区，因为它们这里而非平原。

Until exercise science caught up with the Pilates method in the 1980s, it was chiefly dancers and elite athletes who utilized the Pilates technique.

直到运动科学在八零年代跟彼拉提斯的方法前，主要是舞者和菁英运动员利用彼拉提斯的技巧。

These dams are made chiefly of mud, and stones, and the branches of trees.

这些大坝主要是由泥土、石头和树枝构成。

He valued his royal crown chiefly because it was made of that precious metal.

他珍视他的王冠，主要是因为它是由那种贵重金属制成的。

Our environment is chiefly conditoned by the things we believe.

我们的环境主要受我们信仰的事物制约。

They chiefly attended to the shouting part of the business.

他们现在主要的责任就是大喊大叫。

Soldiers are chiefly defenders of the nest.

兵蚁的首要任务是守护巢穴。

I lived abroad for years, chiefly in Italy.

【chiefly】我在国外生活了很多年，主要在意大利。

Our freedom is — fortunately — far greater than this, because the real sceptic we need to win over and explain our full story too is chiefly and crucially always ourselves.

幸运的是，我们的自由远比这宏大，因为我们真正需要对其说明解释的那些对我们持怀疑论的人，其就是我们自己。

They were first and foremost a response to a climate in which a year's rains fall chiefly in the four brief months of the summer monsoon, when they fall at all.

梯级井首先是对一种气候的反应，在这种气候中，一年的降雨主要集中在夏季季风的四个月里，而这四个月正是雨季来临的时候。

The net result within investment banking is likely to be a widening gap between the largest and most profitable banks, chiefly American ones, and " second-tier" firms, including European banks.

这一切在投资银行内部产生的最终结果可能是，最大和最赚钱的银行(主要是美国银行)与“二线”公司(包括欧洲银行)之间的差距会越来越大。

" Hullo, Wendy, " he said, not noticing any difference, for he was thinking chiefly of himself; and in the dim light her white dress might have been the nightgown in which he had seen her first.

" 你好，温迪。" 彼得说，没有发现任何异样，因为他主要都想着自己。 在昏暗的光线下，她的白衣服仿佛就是初见时她穿的那件睡衣。

Even though Americans today are drinking more wine chiefly in the form of wine coolers, wine makers say there's not that much profit in the coolers, and they're still in a financial pinch.

尽管现在美国人饮用葡萄酒，多情况下饮用的是葡萄酒类果汁饮品，但葡萄酒制造商说葡萄酒类果汁饮品里面没有太多利润，他们在财政仍然处于拮据状态。

She was very willing to hear him, though what she chiefly wished to hear she could not hope to be told -- the history of his acquaintance with Mr. Darcy.

伊丽莎白很愿意听他说话，很想了解一下他和达西先生过去的关系，可是她要听的他未必肯讲。