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词汇 predominate
释义 predominate
verb[ I ]
uk /prɪˈdɒm.ɪ.neɪt/ us /prɪˈdɑː.mə.neɪt/
to be the largest in number or the most important: (数量上)占优势;占主导地位
In industrial areas, the dark-coloured variety of the moth now predominates.在工业区,深色型蛾子现在占绝大多数。
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predominate | American Dictionary


predominate
verb[ I ]
us/prɪˈdɑm·əˌneɪt/
to be the most important or the greatest in number:
We live in an area in which livestock, poultry, and dairy farming predominate.

Examples of predominate


predominate
The geographical metaphor is particularly useful when discussing the internal structure of a program, and hence it tends to predominate in more technical texts.
The ages of the inmates varied, but the old and the sick predominated.
However, in tobacco-growing areas the tobacco-feeding form predominated in spring populations on peach, and was sometimes found on other secondary hosts.
Fewer handlers may be needed to process the grains and dairy that predominate in these regions.
Wives clearly predominated as care providers, and in close to two-thirds of the care occasions provided all the care or more than their husbands.
In voluntary manumissions women clearly predominated, though not as excessively as some have assumed.
In the period under investigation, strongly partisan voting behavior predominated at election time.
Pragmatic considerations predominate within the third class of constraint.
However, in the same volume to infinitive complements still predominate with the adjective, for there are 8 of these.
It is important to appreciate that these articles were published when behaviorist views of language acquisition predominated.
In those patients who required intervention for recurrence of mood symptoms, interventions for depressive symptoms predominated over manic symptoms in nearly a 3 : 1 ratio.
The bounded space of the ethnic group may not be applicable in times when regional clan networks or inter-ethnic age-set territories predominated.
The magnetic mechanism predominates over the buoyancy mechanism in fluid layers about 1 mm thick.
Women predominated in the oldest age group with 14 %, compared with 8 % for the men.
Table 3 displays the same tendency as table 2 : relative clauses predominate at all depths in center-embeddings.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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