Predominate
[prɪ'dɒmɪneɪt] or [prɪ'dɑmə'net]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; 'Money reigns supreme here'; 'Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood'.
雨果錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Prevail, dominate, rule, preponderate, be supreme, be sovereign, be in the ascendant.
伊桑錄入
解釋/意思:
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/造句/用法:
- In short, though I scarcely ventured to admit it, hope did begin to predominate. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- 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. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- And the deeper he went in domesticity the more did the sense of acquitting himself and acting with propriety predominate over any other satisfaction. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Sometimes Mr. Elton predominated, sometimes the Martins; and each was occasionally useful as a check to the other. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The latter feeling now predominated. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I never had experienced such painful and pleasurable emotion at one time, and in my own heart I did not know which predominated. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In the library, in spite of weightier presences, Lawrence Lefferts predominated. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Then the good predominated. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Here there was a god in which one sort of ideas predominated, and there another. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- If good predominates in that nature, the action will bring its own reward; if evil--eh bien! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- Certainly the beast was predominating--the beast at the bottom of the glass. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The two predominating varieties in California are the Washington Navel and the Valencia orange. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
編輯:玛杰里