preponderance
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发音[编辑]
- (標準英音) 國際音標(幫助)：/pɹɪˈpɒndəɹəns/, /pɹɪˈpɒndɹəns/
（英国南部）音频 （文檔） - (通用美式) 國際音標(幫助)：/pɹəˈpɑndəɹəns/, /pɹəˈpɑndɹəns/
（通用美式）音频 （文檔） - 斷字：pre‧pon‧der‧ance
名词[编辑]
preponderance (可數 和 不可數, 複數 preponderances)
- (棄用) 大的重量，沉重
- 近義詞： (obsolete) preponderancy
- （数量上的）优势；大量，很多，众多
- 近義詞： (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，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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- （影响力、实力、质量上的）优势，优越性
- 近義詞： (弃用) 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[编辑]
- praeponderance (弃用, 罕用)
- præponderance (弃用, 罕用)
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相关词汇[编辑]
延伸阅读[编辑]
- “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