preponderance

参见：prépondérance

英语

词源

preponderant +‎ -ance

发音

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /pɹɪˈpɒndəɹəns/, /pɹɪˈpɒndɹəns/

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• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助): /pɹəˈpɑndəɹəns/, /pɹəˈpɑndɹəns/

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• 断字：pre‧pon‧der‧ance

名词

preponderance (可数 和 不可数，复数 preponderances)

1. (弃用) 大的重量，沉重

   近义词：(obsolete) preponderancy

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2. （数量上的）优势；大量，很多，众多

   近义词：(弃用) preponderancy

   • 1857, R[obert] Harries Jones, “Part the Second”, 出自 The Japhetic Races. A Historical and Ethnological Inquiry into the Consanguinity of Various European Races. […], Göttingen: Printed at the University Press by W. Fr. Kaestner, →OCLC, section II，第 36 页:

     [S]trong proofs are at hand to shew, that in the Irish people there is a large admixture, if not an overwhelming praeponderance, of Iberian elements.

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   • 1997年8月17日, Patricia Holt, “Just add sand; trash fiction for end-of-the summer beach reading”, 出自 San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, Calif.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC，第 1 页:

     Is there a preponderance of female protagonists in commercial fiction, and if so, what does it mean?

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   • 2000年4月17日, Paul Van Slambrouck, “California’s brightest star is, well, gray”, 出自 The Christian Science Monitor‎^[1], Boston, Mass.: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Subtle, institutional discrimination was evident in the preponderance of blacks and underprivileged whites fighting the war.

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3. （影响力、实力、质量上的）优势，优越性

   近义词：(弃用) preponderancy、preponderation

   • 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 章号 XI, 出自 The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, 第 III 卷, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC，第 49 页:

     In a few weeks he [William III of England] had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.

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   • 1953, Sigmund Freud, “Distortion in Dreams”, 出自 James Strachey（译者）, The Interpretation of Dreams (First Part) (The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud), 第 IV 卷, London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 出版于 1971, →ISBN，第 134 页:

     But even less disgruntled observers have insisted that pain and unpleasure are more common in dreams than pleasure: for instance, Scholz (1893, 57), Volkelt (1875, 80), and others. Indeed two ladies, Florence Hallam and Sarah Weed (1896, 499), have actually given statistical expression, based on a study of their own dreams, to the preponderance of unpleasure in dreaming.

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其他形式

• praeponderance (弃用、罕用)
• præponderance (弃用、罕用)

衍生词汇

• preponderance of evidence、preponderance of the evidence

相关词汇

• preponderancy (弃用)
• preponderant
• preponderantly
• preponderate
• preponderately
• preponderatingly
• preponderating (形容词)
• preponderation
• prepondering (形容词)
• preponderous
• preponderously
• preponder (弃用)

 

延伸阅读

• “preponderance”，The Century Dictionary […]，New York, N.Y.：The Century Co.，1911，OCLC 867766587
• “preponderance”，Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary，Springfield, Mass.：G. & C. Merriam，1913年，OCLC 800618302