" She wanted to show you to the principal business women, I suppose" .

“我想她想带你去见主要的女商人” 。

" One was a men's dinner, " he explained. " Mr. Palmer seemed to think I ought to be shown to the principal business men" .

“一个是男士晚餐，”他解释道。 “帕尔默先生似乎认为我应该被展示给主要的商人”。

His principal business was raising cotton, and inasmuch as some may read this book who have never seen a cotton field, a description of the manner of its culture may not be out of place.

他的主要业务是种植棉花，鉴于读这本书的人可能从未见过棉田， 因此对其文化方式的描述可能并不过分。

A smith who has been accustomed to make nails, but whose sole or principal business has not been that of a nailer, can seldom, with his utmost diligence, make more than eight hundred or a thousand nails in a day.

一个习惯于做钉子的铁匠，如果他的唯一或主要业务不是做钉子的，即使他尽最大的努力，也很少能在一天内做超过八百或一千个钉子。