| 释义 |
preˈdominately, adv.
[f. predominate a. + -ly2.]
= predominantly.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xv. (1596) 271 Nature..in a woman cannot be predominatly hot. 1842Manning Serm. (1848) I. 66 In persons of a predominately worldly tone of mind. 1892Athenæum 13 Feb. 212/2 Used too predominately, to the dwarfing or exclusion of other feelings. 1961Christian Sci. Monitor 17 Oct. 4/7 WWRL's [sc. a radio station's] colorful mobile unit, cruising predominately Negro neighborhoods. 1965C. Walsh in J. Gibb Light on C.S. Lewis 110 He quickly gained a wide audience{ddd}it was predominately high-brow and middle-brow. 1970[see non-word]. 1973Yale Rev. Spring 452 Other indications that the Supplement is predominately concerned with the modern..history of the English vocabulary. 1977Lancet 6 Aug. 306/2 We were fascinated by the suggestion..that in San Francisco enteric diseases are predominately sexually transmitted. |