Chiefly
['tʃiːflɪ] or ['tʃifli]
解释:
(adv.) In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially.
(adv.) For the most part; mostly.
海因里希录入
同义词及近义词:
ad. [1]. Principally, eminently, mainly, especially, particularly, above all.[2]. Mostly, for the most part.
克拉拉录入
同义词及反义词:
[See MAINLY]
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例句:
- The following conclusions are drawn up chiefly from Gartner's admirable work on the hybridisation of plants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- We owe the railroad chiefly to the needs of the north of England, and there we find the real birth of the locomotive. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- What chiefly surprised Edmund was, that Crawford's sister, the friend and companion who had been so much to her, should not be more visibly regretted. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- In the early days of the sewing machine its sales were chiefly for family use, but this is now no longer the case. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- What the servants chiefly resented, I think, was her silent tongue and her solitary ways. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- In the interests of renown the forwardness should lie chiefly in the capacity to handle things. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- It consists chiefly of the four following articles. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- But the revenue of the sovereign does not, in any part of Europe, arise chiefly from a land tax or land rent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The first railroads to be built were principally branches of the Liverpool and Manchester one, and chiefly located in the mining and manufacturing county of Lancaster. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Chiefly, I fear, for the sake of the money I get. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The factory work at this time related chiefly to stock tickers, principally the Universal, of which at one time twelve hundred were in use. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- This constitution was chiefly the joint production of a worthy philosopher Sieyès, who was one of the three consuls, and Bonaparte. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The drill of the student involved chiefly the acquisition of the special signals employed in railway work, including the numerals and abbreviations applied to save time. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- It was probably chiefly Egyptian. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It is chiefly rose red, then blue, a metallic, mid-blue, and a very soft dark blue. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The duties of excise are imposed chiefly upon goods of home produce, destined for home consumption. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The person to whom the world is chiefly indebted for the practical application of gas lighting is Mr. Winsor, who had been a merchant in London. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- So each consul's family stays at home chiefly and amuses itself as best it can. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- His lighting must have been poor, and chiefly firelight, but there was probably always some fire in the village, summer or winter. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Her population was chiefly a Mongolian population, with some very interesting white people of a Nordic type, the Hairy Ainu, in the northern islands. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The streets present a lively and animated appearance, occasioned chiefly by the conviviality of the military. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The manufactures of Flanders were carried on chiefly with Spanish and English wool. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The people of America are chiefly farmers and planters; scarce anything that they raise or produce is an article of commerce with the Indians. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- And it was chiefly the poorer citizens of Athens who sustained this empire by their most vigorous and incessant personal service. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I get chiefly patients who can't pay me. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The rest of the emperors of this period were chiefly adventurers too unimportant to the general scheme of things for us to note. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- These remarks apply chiefly to littoral and sublittoral deposits. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
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