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英[ˈməʊstli]
美[ˈmoʊstli]

基本释义

adv.
主要地; 大部分; 通常

实用例句

The sauce is mostly cream.

这沙司主要是奶油。

牛津词典

We're mostly out on Sundays.

我们星期天一般不在家。

牛津词典

I am working with mostly highly motivated people...

和我共事的人大多积极性极高。

Cars are mostly metal.

轿车的大部分部件是金属制造的。

Our weather has been mostly warm.

我们这里的天气多半是暖和的.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

Her pains are mostly pure imagination.

她的疼痛多半是纯粹想像出来的东西.

《简明英汉词典》

The audience were mostly adolescents.

听众几乎都是年轻人.

《简明英汉词典》

The students of Umtata High School were mostly Protestant.

乌姆塔塔中学的学生大多数是新教徒.

《简明英汉词典》

The burglars in the city are mostly jobless people.

城里的夜贼多为无业人员.

《简明英汉词典》

They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.

他们大多住在近郊.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

She uses her car mostly for driving to work.

她的汽车主要用于上下班.

《简明英汉词典》

A hard core of supporters, mostly teenage girls, gathered at the airport to see the star arrive.

支持者的中坚分子大多是十几岁的女孩子, 聚集在机场一睹这位明星的到来.

《简明英汉词典》

The audience consisted mostly of women.

观众主要是妇女.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The glass of beer was mostly froth.

这杯啤酒大部分是泡沫.

《简明英汉词典》

The highest quality paper is made mostly from rags.

上好的纸多半是用破布制造的.

《简明英汉词典》

He has the occasional cigarette, but mostly he smokes a pipe.

他偶尔抽香烟, 但通常是抽烟斗.

《简明英汉词典》

The sauce is mostly cream.

这沙司主要是奶油。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

I was meeting these chaps who were mostly more or less my own age.

我见到了这帮小伙子,他们多数和我年龄相仿。

柯林斯例句

Timothy was crying, mostly from exhaustion, and his nose was running.

由于太累了,蒂莫西哭的一把鼻涕一把泪。

柯林斯例句

They feed mostly on decaying vegetable matter.

它们大多以腐烂的蔬菜为食。

柯林斯例句

He mostly stayed at home tucking up the children.

他主要待在家里,帮孩子们盖好被子睡觉。

柯林斯例句

In fact, the recordings were mostly unrehearsed improvisations.

事实上,这些唱片收录的大部分乐曲都是没排练过的即兴之作。

柯林斯例句

I live mostly on coffee and ginger ale.

我主要喝咖啡和姜汁汽水。

柯林斯例句

AIDS kills mostly the young population of a nation. These are the people who contribute most to a country's economic development.

死于艾滋病的主要是一个国家的年轻人,而正是这些人对国家经济发展贡献最大.

柯林斯例句

I am working with mostly highly motivated people.

和我共事的人大多积极性极高。

柯林斯例句

The chapter is mostly wordy rhetoric.

这一章多为冗长的华丽词藻。

柯林斯例句

There was mostly silence. I have never known such economy with words.

大部分时候都是沉默,我还从未见过如此惜字如金的情形。

柯林斯例句

真题例句

But people still mostly fed carrots to horses, donkeys and pigs, and didn’t eat them themselves.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

But mostly, I hate tipping because I believe I would be in a better place if pay decisions regarding employees were simply left up to their employers, as is the custom in virtually every other industry.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Premier Gardens is one of a half-dozen subdivisions in California where every home cuts power consumption by 50%, mostly by using low-power appliances and solar panels.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

They are mostly small in size.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

And though the system was built mostly to make car travel easier, defense was not forgotten.

2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

By 1974, this system was mostly completed.

2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

So-called roads of national importance were designated, but they were mostly small country roads.

2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert sa

2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

within the Alps in central Europe is Liechtenstein, a tiny country of about 30, 000 people who speak mostly German.

2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Contestants of elite high school math competitions are mostly Asian and white students from well-off families.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

A New York City-based nonprofit called Bridge to Enter Mathematics runs a residential summer program aimed at getting underserved students, mostly black and Hispanic, working toward math and science careers.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Private markets for goods, services, labor, and securities do mostly self-correct, but panic feeds on itself and disarms these stabilizing tendencies.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Younger people today mostly accept that they will have to work for longer and that their pensions will be less generous.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

After all, older people themselves mostly have families

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

The predicted intergenerational warfare is unlikely because most of the older people themselves mostly have families.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

The Polytechnic is all adults and mostly preparation for exams like the Cambridge certificates.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

A New York city-based nonprofit called Bridge to Enter Mathematics runs a residential summer program aimed at getting underserved students, mostly black and hispanic, working toward math and science careers.

2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

As I said earlier, it’s mostly vegetables.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

Despite the success of the experiment, the actual results are worrisome, and mostly confirm earlier studies.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

Indeed, our schools and universities are structured to mould pupils to be mostly obedient servants of rationality, and to develop outdated skills in interacting with outdated machines.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Mediterranean cooking uses smaller amounts of saturated fat and higher amounts of unsaturated fat, mostly in the form of olive oil.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Merian started raising insects at home, mostly butterflies and caterpillars.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Moffitt said it's still unclear why some children have better self-control than others, though she says other researchers have found that it's mostly a learned behavior, with relatively little genetic influence.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

One or both of these models will help researchers test their ideas—so far mostly done in the lab - on test plots.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The code talkers worked mostly in the islands in the Pacific.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than Earth.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

These fears are mostly exaggerated: as with hysteria about genetic modification, we humans are generally wise enough to manage these problems with speed and care.

2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around a million and a half years ago and meanwhile they mostly lost their coat of fur.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

We spend a great deal of time studying history, Hawking said, which, let's face it, is mostly the history of stupidity.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

As one would expect, his writing is mostly clear and, to be fair, some chapters stand out above the rest.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

I come here once a week, mostly Friday or Saturday.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 听力 原文

My mother and father were united in their way of raising children, but it mostly fell to my mother to actually carry it out.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Technological change is everywhere and affects every aspect of life, mostly for the better.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The researchers say that the keyboard should be pretty straightforward to commercialize and is mostly made of inexpensive, plastic-like parts.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The whip gets all of the attention, but it's mostly for show.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

They conduct between 30 and 40 workshops annually, focusing on half a dozen different plays, mostly for corporations, but also for government agencies.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

They were written mostly by women.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

Unlike most of the netherlands, Hilversum is actually in a hilly area with the soil mostly consisting of sand.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Second, they are mostly bright and well-educated.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Meanwhile, it has more than $120 billion in unfunded liabilities, mostly for employee health and retirement costs.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

But while young and old mostly agree on what constitutes the finish line of a fulfilling life, they offer strikingly different paths for reaching it.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Derek Jarman's yellow-tinted film Towards Avebury, a collection of long, mostly still shots of the wiltshire landscape, evokes a tradition of English landscape painting stretching from Samuel Palmer to Paul Nash.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Suppose you are in a room with someone you don't know and something within you says" I want to talk with this person"—this is something the mostly happens with all of us.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Adverb
  • 1. in large part; mainly or chiefly;

    "These accounts are largely inactive"

  • 2. usually; as a rule;

    "by and large it doesn't rain much here"

同义词辨析

mainly, chiefly, greatly, largely, mostly, primarily, principally, generally

这些副词均可表示"主要地,大量地"之意。

  • mainly: 指主要部分,突出在一系列事物中的相对重要性。
  • chiefly: 侧重某人或某物在众多的人或物中占主要和显著地位。
  • greatly: 通常强调程度的高。
  • largely: 着重范围或分量大大超过别的成分。
  • mostly: 强调数量占多半,近乎全部。
  • primarily: 侧重基本地,首要地。
  • principally: 侧重居首要地位。
  • generally: 通常强调普遍性。

同义词

adv.主要地;差不多

chieflyalmostallnearlymainly

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