principally是什么意思？

principally

英[ˈprɪnsəpli] 美[ˈprɪnsəpli]

• adv. 主要地，大部分；

例句

• Our club was composed principally of students,with an admixture of young clerks. 我们的俱乐部主要由大学生组成,外加一些年轻的职员。
• He had married her principally for the sake of her father’s property. 他所以要娶她,主要是为了她父亲的财产。
• Our club was composed principally of students, with an admixture of young clerks. 我们的俱乐部主要由大学生组成，外加一些年轻的职员。
• Termites are principally tropical in distribution. 白蚁主要分布在热带地区.
• This incurable illness principally concern respiratory and stomaching system. 这种不能治愈的疾病主要关系到呼吸和胃部.
• Composite electrodeposits have been principally used to improve the corrosion resistance and wearability of metal surface. 复合镀层主要用于提高金属表面的耐蚀性和耐磨性.
• The sell-off is aimed at repositioning the company as a publisher principally of business information. 出售公司部分业务的目的是将公司重新定位为以商业信息类出版物为主的出版商。
• The book is aimed principally at beginners. 这本书主要是为初学者编写的。
• A member a traditionally nomadic people living principally in Kirghiz. 吉尔吉斯人主要居住在吉尔吉斯的游牧传统民族的一员.
• Any of three gaseous isomeric ethylene hydrocarbons , C 4 H 8 , used principally in making synthetic rubbers. 丁烯乙烯的三种气态同分异构体之一,C4H8, 主要用于制造合成橡胶.

同义词解析

• 以下这些副词均可表示"主要地，大量地" 的意思
  mainly：指主要部分，突出在一系列事物中的相对重要性。
  chiefly：侧重某人或某物在众多的人或物中占主要和显著地位。
  greatly：通常强调程度的高。
  largely：着重范围或分量大大超过别的成分。
  mostly：强调数量占多半，近乎全部。
  primarily：侧重基本地，首要地。
  principally：侧重居首要地位。
  generally：通常强调普遍性。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADV
  主要地；首要地；最重要地
  Principally means more than anything else.
  例句
  This is principally because the major export markets are slowing... 这主要是因为主要出口市场发展缓慢。 Embryonic development seems to be controlled principally by a very small number of master genes. 胚胎发育似乎主要受制于少数主导基因。

英汉词典释义

• adv.
  主要地
  He had married her principally for the sake of her father’s property. 他所以要娶她,主要是为了她父亲的财产。 Our club was composed principally of students,with an admixture of young clerks. 我们的俱乐部主要由大学生组成,外加一些年轻的职员。

英英词典释义

• Adverb
  1. for the most part;
  "he is mainly interested in butterflies"