Primarily
['praɪm(ə)rɪlɪ;praɪ'mer-] or [praɪ'mɛrəli]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) of primary import; 'this is primarily a question of economics'; 'it was in the first place a local matter'.
手打:玛吉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(adv.) In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; in the first intention; originally.
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例句/造句/用法:
- It is perhaps natural for a European writer writing primarily for English-reading students to overrun his subject in this way. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Primarily it must have appreciation value. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The mines, for him, were primarily great fields to produce bread and plenty for all the hundreds of human beings gathered about them. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- This machine, which was intended primarily for the use of the blind, is illustrated in Figs. 137 and 138. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- We shall be interested primarily in the way nations established their civilization in spite of hostile conditions. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The universities in England particularly, being primarily clerical in their constitution, resisted the new learning very bitterly. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- To say that active occupations should be concerned primarily with wholes is another statement of the same principle. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The reaper had been primarily necessary in America, because here farm labor was very scarce, and the wheat fields enormously productive. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- This road was primarily built to transport freight, and passengers were in reality an afterthought. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Mecca was not merely nor primarily a trading centre; it was a place of pilgrimage. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The service for which this car is intended is primarily to guard railroads and depots adjacent to railroads. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But practice in applying what has been gained in study ought primarily to have an intellectual quality. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- This education consists primarily in transmission through communication. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- No, Professor, replied Canler, for I came primarily to see you. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It was primarily a religion of conduct, not a religion of observances and sacrifices. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The name is derived from the Greek, the use of the apparatus being primarily to measure extremely minute differences of pressure. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The subject matter of education consists primarily of the meanings which supply content to existing social life. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The administration was evidently primarily a patrician affair. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion fo r pure knowledge, but also of the passion for doing good. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Indentations become raised matter, and the whole will show as did primarily the type. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- To value means primarily to prize, to esteem; but secondarily it means to apprise, to estimate. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
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