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

• 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；
• A good, informative back label tells us this blend is mainly 2008 and Pinot Noir predominates.
  背标显示其原料主要来自于2008年份，以黑比诺葡萄为主。
• Now it is the "Left" tendency that predominates in the country as a whole, although a Right tendency is to be found in some areas, too.
  今天，从全国范围来说，主要的倾向是左，也有右的倾向，但不是主要的。
• Britain is a plural society in which the secular predominates
  英国是个世俗主导的多元社会。
• Of these, as the endless daily parade of desperation and diagnoses makes evident, it is pain whose presence predominates.
  如同平日无尽的绝望和诊断结果所证明的，疼痛在这三者中最为突出。
• Sickle-cell disease predominates in Africa.
  镰状细胞病主要见于非洲。
• A form of apatite in which fluorine predominates over chlorine.
  一种磷灰石，其中氟支配氯。
• 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。
• Hard. Term applied to wine which is poorly balanced and in which acidity predominates.
  硬的、协调的：用于描述葡萄酒的酒体平衡差，酸度居于主导地位。