mostly

英语

替代写法

• mostlie (过时)
• moastly (过时)

词源

most +‎ -ly。

发音

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈməʊstli/
• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈmoʊstli/

• 音频 (美国)

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副词

mostly (不可比)

1. 主要、首先；大多；通常、广泛、大抵、大都。

   They're mostly good people, although they have made a few mistakes.

   虽然他们都犯过错，但是他们大多是好人。

   • 2013 6月 29, “A punch in the gut”, 出自 The Economist, 卷 407, 期 8842，页号s 72-3:

     Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.

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2. (弃用) 最
   • 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, [1]:

     She was to be their chosen visitor, she was to be for weeks under the same roof with the person whose society she mostly prized [...]!

同义词

• (主要、首先)： by and large、in the main、more often than not、largely、predominantly、principally