Predominant
[prɪ'dɒmɪnənt] or [prɪ'dɑmənənt]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence.
整理:希欧多尔
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Prevailing, prevalent, supreme, ascendant, overruling, dominant, sovereign.
錄入:威廉姆斯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Prevailing, ascendant, prevalent, superior, overruling,[See SUPERIOR]
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例句/造句/用法:
- Influenced by his predominant idea, he even fell into a habit of discussing with himself the possibility of her being in some way associated with it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- High on the upper deck, in a little nook among the everywhere predominant cotton-bales, at last we may find him. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The feeling called love is and has been for two years the predominant emotion of my heart--always there, always awake, always astir. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- That regret was the predominant feeling, on the first occasion of her receiving a proposal. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Whether this proceeds from the principle above-mentioned, that any attendant emotion is easily converted into the predominant, I shall not determine. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- With many, in all forms of word-consciousness, the auditory image is predominant. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The predominant passion swallows up the inferior, and converts it into itself. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- He knew that the transmission of life deserves special s tudy as the predominant function of the various species of plants and animals. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The fact of predominant interest to the historian of mankind is this _will to crusade_ suddenly revealed as a new mass possibility in human affairs. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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