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Largely French 副词   [Adv 英 Lɑːdʒli] 美 Lɑːrdʒli Adv.大部分;主要地

英语单词 largely
英美音标 英 ['lɑːdʒli] 美 ['lɑːrdʒli]
中文释义 adv.大部分;主要地
英语例句 (1) The farming area is centered largely in the south.
(2) His eight sons largely inherited his fortune.
(3) However, in the East, there were many solar deities, including the Greek Helios, who was largely displaced by Apollo.
中文例句 (1) 农业区大部分集中在南方。
(2) 他的八个儿子继承了他的大部分遗产。
(3) 然而,在东方,有很多太阳神,包括希腊的太阳神,主要地是以阿波罗来命名。
vocabulary简明 Use the adverb largely to mean "mostly." You might say that you're largely pleased with the way your favorite baseball team played this season if they won more games than they lost.
vocabulary扩展 If a group art project was largely completed at your house, that means you primarily worked on it there, and when a once-popular novelist is largely forgotten, she's generally fallen out of favor with today's readers. Largely is a useful alternative to "mostly," "mainly," or "chiefly," and it comes from the adjective large, in Old French "broad, wide, or generous," from a Latin root, largus, "abundant, plentiful, bountiful, or liberal."
柯林斯解释
1
[ADV-GRADED 副词]大致上;总体上;一般地说 You use largely to say that a statement is not completely true but is mostly true.
  [ADV with v]
  • The fund is largely financed through government borrowing...

    该基金大致上由政府借款支持。

  • I largely work with people who already are motivated...

    我大多和积极主动的人一起工作。

  • Their weapons have been largely stones.

    一直以来,他们的武器主要是石头。

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[ADV 副词](用于说明原因)主要地 Largely is used to introduce the main reason for a particular event or situation.
  [ADV prep]
  • Retail sales dipped 6/10ths of a percent last month, largely because Americans were buying fewer cars...

    上月零售额下降了千分之六,主要是因为美国人买汽车少了。

  • The French empire had expanded largely through military conquest.

    法兰西帝国的扩张主要靠军事征服。

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