preponderance

參見：prépondérance

英語

詞源

preponderant +‎ -ance

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/pɹɪˈpɒndəɹəns/, /pɹɪˈpɒndɹəns/

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• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助)：/pɹəˈpɑndəɹəns/, /pɹəˈpɑndɹəns/

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• 斷字：pre‧pon‧der‧ance

名詞

preponderance (可數 和 不可數，複數 preponderances)

1. (棄用) 大的重量，沉重

   近義詞： (obsolete) preponderancy

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2. （數量上的）優勢；大量，很多，眾多

   近義詞： (棄用) 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，頁號 36:

     [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 8月 17, 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，頁號 1:

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

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   • 2000 4月 17, 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. （影響力、實力、質量上的）優勢，優越性

   近義詞： (棄用) preponderancy、preponderation

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

     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（譯者）, The Interpretation of Dreams (First Part) (The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud), 卷 IV, London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 出版於 1971, →ISBN，頁號 134:

     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 (棄用, 罕用)
• præponderance (棄用, 罕用)

衍生詞彙

• preponderance of evidence、preponderance of the evidence

相關詞彙

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

 

延伸閱讀

• 「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, OCLC 800618302