Predominant

(a.) Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence.

整理:希欧多尔

• Influenced by his predominant idea, he even fell into a habit of discussing with himself the possibility of her being in some way associated with it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• High on the upper deck, in a little nook among the everywhere predominant cotton-bales, at last we may find him. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The feeling called love is and has been for two years the predominant emotion of my heart--always there, always awake, always astir. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• That regret was the predominant feeling, on the first occasion of her receiving a proposal. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Whether this proceeds from the principle above-mentioned, that any attendant emotion is easily converted into the predominant, I shall not determine. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• With many, in all forms of word-consciousness, the auditory image is predominant. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The predominant passion swallows up the inferior, and converts it into itself. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He knew that the transmission of life deserves special s tudy as the predominant function of the various species of plants and animals. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The fact of predominant interest to the historian of mankind is this _will to crusade_ suddenly revealed as a new mass possibility in human affairs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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