predominates

英 [prɪˈdɒmɪneɪts]

美 [prɪˈdɑːmɪneɪts]

v.  (数量上)占优势; 以…为主; 占主导地位; 有最大影响(或重要性)
predominate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB （在数量上）占优势，占大多数
  If one type of person or thingpredominatesin a group, there is more of that type of person or thing in the group than of any other.
  1. In older age groups women predominate because men tend to die younger...
     在老年群体中女性占大多数，因为男性的寿命往往较短。
  2. All nationalities were represented — but the English predominated.
     所有国家都有代表出席——但是英格兰人占大多数。
• VERB 占主导地位；占支配地位；突出
  When a feature or qualitypredominates, it is the most important or noticeable one in a situation.
  1. He wants to create a society where Islamic principles predominate.
     他想创造一个以伊斯兰教戒律为主导的社会。

双语例句

• The keto form predominates in many aldehydes and ketones, the enol form in phenols.
  在许多醛和酮中酮基都是最主要的组分。
• For the time being, Morgan's division may be summarized thus: Savagery& the period in which man's appropriation of products in their natural state predominates;
  现在我们可以把摩尔根的分期概括如下：蒙昧时代是以采集现成的天然产物为主的时期；
• In these markets too, speculation predominates over enterprise.
  同样还是在这些市场，投机胜过了投资。
• A form of apatite in which fluorine predominates over chlorine.
  一种磷灰石，其中氟支配氯。
• The pellet quality predominates their proportions.
  球团矿质量决定其配比，质优的球团矿利于高炉顺行。
• If the water predominates, death is prompt, the man is swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow.
  如果水占优势，将出现淹没现象，人便迅速死亡，如泥占优势，死亡便缓慢，这就是下陷。
• But idleness predominates in many lives where it is not suspected;
  懒散主宰了许多人的生活，而不为人所知；
• Which of the two predominates depends on how a particular economy works.
  二者之中由谁主宰，取决于特定经济体是如何运作的。
• Whatever idealism may motivate the participants, the profit motive predominates, permeates, and ultimately governs the transaction.
  无论唯心主义如何激励参与者，利润始终是最主要的动机，渗透，并最终掌控这种交易。
• Do these complexes have a will of their own or do we, in the end, choose which complex predominates?
  这些情结是不是有它们自发的意志？或者我们最终可以选择让某些情结占优势？