Predominate
[prɪ'dɒmɪneɪt] or [prɪ'dɑmə'net]
解释:
(verb.) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; 'Money reigns supreme here'; 'Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood'.
雨果录入--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart.
(v. t.) To rule over; to overpower.
手打:凯西
同义词及近义词：
v. n. Prevail, dominate, rule, preponderate, be supreme, be sovereign, be in the ascendant.
伊桑录入
解释:
v.t. to dominate or rule over.—v.i. to be dominant over: to surpass in strength or authority: to prevail.—ns. Predom′inance Predom′inancy condition of being predominant: superior influence: superiority: ascendency.—adj. Predom′inant ruling: having superior power: ascendant.—adv. Predom′inantly.—n. Predominā′tion ascendency.—Predominant partner the partner who has a larger stake in any business than the others—applied by Lord Rosebery (1894) to England as a member of the United Kingdom.
手打:西摩
例句:
- In short, though I scarcely ventured to admit it, hope did begin to predominate. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Our tempers certainly did exactly suit each other; and the love must ever predominate on one side, or there will be an end of all stimulus. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- And the deeper he went in domesticity the more did the sense of acquitting himself and acting with propriety predominate over any other satisfaction. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Sometimes Mr. Elton predominated, sometimes the Martins; and each was occasionally useful as a check to the other. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- The latter feeling now predominated. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I never had experienced such painful and pleasurable emotion at one time, and in my own heart I did not know which predominated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- In the library, in spite of weightier presences, Lawrence Lefferts predominated. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Then the good predominated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Here there was a god in which one sort of ideas predominated, and there another. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- If good predominates in that nature, the action will bring its own reward; if evil--eh bien! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Granite quarried anywhere in which felspar predominates is not well adapted for buildings, as it cracks and crumbles down in a few years. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Certainly the beast was predominating--the beast at the bottom of the glass. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The two predominating varieties in California are the Washington Navel and the Valencia orange. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
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