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

• In these markets too, speculation predominates over enterprise.
  同样还是在这些市场，投机胜过了投资。
• As deep strata uplift silently, local stress field predominates over strike-slip faulting.
  于抬升停止期，此地区受大地应力的挤压而形成走向滑移的震源机制；
• 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。
• The genetic mechanism includes capillary condensation and mixed water dolomitization, of which the latter one predominates in the study area.
  羌塘盆地白云岩的成因与毛细管浓缩作用和混合水白云化作用有关。
• Sickle-cell disease predominates in Africa.
  镰状细胞病主要见于非洲。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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？
• Type C predominates in Africa.
  型则肆虐于非洲。