principal

英 [ˈprɪnsəpl]

美 [ˈprɪnsəpl]

adj. 最重要的; 主要的
n. 大学校长; 学院院长; 本金; 资本; 主要演员; 主角

复数：principals　

Collins.3 / BNC.2225 / COCA.3124

牛津词典

adj.

noun

大学校长；学院院长
the person who is in charge of a college or a university
1. Principal Ray Smith
  雷∙史密斯校长
大学校长；学院院长
the person who is in charge of a college or a university
1. Principal Ray Smith
  雷∙史密斯校长
本金；资本
an amount of money that you lend to sb or invest to earn interest
主要演员；主角
the person who has the most important part in a play, an opera , etc.
（尤指商务或法律事务的）当事人，委托人
a person that you are representing, especially in business or law

ADJ 首要的；最主要的；最重要的
Principalmeans first in order of importance.
1. The principal reason for my change of mind is this.
  这是我改变主意的最主要原因。
2. ...the country's principal source of foreign exchange earnings...
  这个国家最主要的外汇收入来源
3. Their principal concern is bound to be that of winning the next general election.
  他们最关心的问题肯定是赢得下一次大选。
N-COUNT （中小学）校长；（英国）大学校长，学院院长
Theprincipalof a school, or in Britain theprincipalof a college, is the person in charge of the school or college.
1. Donald King is the principal of Dartmouth High School.
  唐纳德·金是达特茅斯中学的校长。

noun

the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange
Synonym:dealer
the educator who has executive authority for a school
1. she sent unruly pupils to see the principal
Synonym:school principalhead teacherhead
(criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement
an actor who plays a principal role
Synonym:starlead
capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
Synonym:corpusprincipal sum
the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated

The boys like the principal because he always plays fair.
这些男孩们喜欢这位校长，因为他总是公平待人。
The principal came down hard on the boys for breaking the window.
校长把那些打破窗户的男生狠狠地训了一顿。
The two principal combustion products are water vapor and carbon dioxide.
两种主要的燃烧产物是水蒸气和二氧化碳。
The principal criminal was sentenced to life imprisonment.
这个主犯被判无期徒刑。
Once this principal contradiction is grasped, all problems can be readily solved.
抓住了这个主要矛盾，一切问题就迎刃而解了。
City's principal marksman was Joe Harvey who scored seventeen goals.
市队的头号射手是打进17粒进球的乔·哈维。
They were the principal shareholders in a bank riddled with corruption
他们是一家腐败成风的银行的主要股东。
On both large and small farms, one of the principal inhibitions to expansion of production can be insecurity of tenure.
不论大农场或小农场，扩大生产的主要抑制因素可能是租地使用权缺乏保障。
The post of principal of the theatre school became vacant and he leapt at the chance.
戏剧学校校长一职出缺，他马上抓住了这个机会。
A school is a principal's jurisdiction.
学校归校长管辖。