The principal character in a novel means the main character, or the first character, or the most important character.

principal character在小说中是指主要人物，或第一个人物， 或最重要的人物。

Plato wrote a number of Dialogues, or dramatized discussions on philosophy, in which he uses Socrates as his principal character and mouthpiece.

柏拉图写了许多对话，或戏剧化的哲学讨论，他在其中使用苏格拉底作为他的主要人物和代言人。

Clever press-agenting spread the unfounded rumor that " Gypsy" Smith was beginning a libel suit because one of the principal characters was a burlesque of himself.

聪明的新闻代理人散布了毫无根据的谣言，说“吉普赛人”史密斯开始提起诽谤诉讼，因为其中一个主要人物是他自己的滑稽表演。

They are meant to set the scene and situate the time period and they don't need to be relatable to the viewers in the same way that the principal characters do.

它们旨在设置场景并定位时间段，并且它们不需要像主要角色那样与观众产生共鸣。

The principal characters in which the history of the ancient glaciers is preserved are displayed here in marvelous freshness and simplicity, furnishing the student with extraordinary advantages for the acquisition of knowledge of this sort.

保存古代冰川历史的主要特征在这里以惊人的新鲜和简单展示，为学生获取此类知识提供了非凡的优势。

" Well, I'll be Elaine, " said Anne, yielding reluctantly, for, although she would have been delighted to play the principal character, yet her artistic sense demanded fitness for it and this, she felt, her limitations made impossible.

“好吧，我就是伊莱恩，”安妮勉强让步，因为虽然她很乐意扮演主角，但她的艺术感需要适合这个角色，而她觉得，她的局限性使她无法做到这一点。