preponderance
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英语
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[编辑]发音
[编辑]- (標準英音) 國際音標(幫助): /pɹɪˈpɒndəɹəns/, /pɹɪˈpɒndɹəns/
(英国南部)音频: (檔案) - (通用美式) 國際音標(幫助): /pɹəˈpɑndəɹəns/, /pɹəˈpɑndɹəns/
(通用美式)音频: (檔案) - 斷字:pre‧pon‧der‧ance
名词
[编辑]preponderance (可數 和 不可數,複數 preponderances)
- (弃用) 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,第 36 頁:
- [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 頁:
- 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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- (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, 第 III 卷, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC,第 49 頁:
- 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), 第 IV 卷, London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 出版於 1971, →ISBN,第 134 頁:
- 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)
衍生词汇
[编辑]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年,OCLC 800618302