primarily

英[praɪˈmerəli]
美[praɪˈmerəli]

基本释义

  • adv.首先; 首要地,主要地; 根本上; 本来

实用例句

a course designed primarily for specialists

主要为专业人员开设的课程

牛津词典

The problem is not primarily a financial one.

这个问题基本上不是财政问题。

牛津词典

...a book aimed primarily at high-energy physicists...

一本主要针对高能物理学家的书

Public order is primarily an urban problem...

社会治安主要是城市的问题。

Noscapine has been primarily used as antitussive agent for several decades.

过去几十年中,那可丁一直被用作镇咳药.

期刊摘选

I am primarily interested in history.

我主要对历史感兴趣.

《简明英汉词典》

These were primarily economic migrants who came to Hong Kong to seek illegal employment.

这些越南人主要是基于经济因素,希望来港非法就业.

期刊摘选

Fructus Forsythiae is used primarily to treat respiratory infection, acute nephritis, hepatitis, meningitis, etc.

临床上多用于治疗呼吸道感染 、 急性肾炎 、 肝炎 、 脑膜炎等疾病.

期刊摘选

If you want to understand Shanghai, to Shanghainese, you must primarily understand Shi Ku Men.

要读懂上海, 读懂上海人, 就必须先读懂石库门.

期刊摘选

At that time, keeping the system going required increasing support from abroad, primarily from Europe.

那时, 保持系统运转需要来自国外, 主要是欧洲的支持.

期刊摘选

Many of them did not primarily seek wealth, but usefulness to God.

他们当中许多人主要不是追求致富, 而是使钱财为神所用.

期刊摘选

This sandstone consists of quartz primarily and feldspar secondly.

这种砂岩的成份以石英为主,长石次之.

期刊摘选

The information contained in DNA is determined primarily by the sequence of letters along the zipper.

包含在DNA中的信息主要由这些字母沿这个拉链的顺序来确定.

期刊摘选

We regard them as actural stratigraphic units produced primarily by magmatic sedimentation.

我们把它们当作实际上的地层单元来考虑,它们主要由岩浆沉积作用所产生.

辞典例句

Though the Indian labor pool is large, it is also primarily unskilled.

印度的劳动力储备量很大, 可是基本上是没有技术的.

《简明英汉词典》

The clock signal determining the cycle time of the system primarily clocks this register.

根本上,决定计算机系统作业周期的时钟信号在为这个寄存器计时.

期刊摘选

His other investments are primarily in real estate, which hit by a slump this year.

他的其他投资项目都集中在房地产方面 —— 在今年受到了经济衰退的打击.

期刊摘选

Education primarily influenced the capacity of abstract and generalization in the language.

受教育年限主要影响语言的抽象、概括能力.

期刊摘选

Chest surgery consisted primarily of evacuation of empyema.

胸腔外科基本上是限于对脓胸进行排脓.

辞典例句

Efficiency test , this is primarily a system to complete test papers.

效试卷, 这主要是由组卷系统来完成.

期刊摘选

Should sickness propagation mode be diverse, by through crowd intimate contact dissemination primarily.

该病传播方式多样, 以通过人群密切接触传播为主.

期刊摘选

The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people.

这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的.

《简明英汉词典》

a course designed primarily for specialists

主要为专业人员开设的课程

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

Money will be directed primarily towards the maintenance and rehabilitation of schools, clinics and machinery.

资金将主要用于学校、诊所和机器设备的维护和修缮。

柯林斯例句

Investment remains tiny primarily because of the exorbitant cost of land.

投资仍然微乎其微,主要原因在于土地成本过高。

柯林斯例句

The body is made up primarily of bone, muscle, and fat.

人体主要是由骨骼、肌肉和脂肪构成。

柯林斯例句

Flycatchers feed primarily on winged insects.

鹟主要以有翅昆虫为食。

柯林斯例句

Many remedies effective in joint disease are primarily diuretic.

许多对关节病有效的药品主要含有利尿成分。

柯林斯例句

Her wardrobe consists primarily of huge cashmere sweaters and tiny Italian sandals.

她的衣物主要是宽大的开司米毛衣和小巧的意大利凉鞋。

柯林斯例句

真题例句

She primarily speaks to students in health classes, but sometimes the school will arrange for her to speak to several different groups of girls.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

At the end of the day, these kinds of systems are primarily designed to protect against the sort of opportunistic smash-and-grab attack that makes up the majority of burglaries.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that's where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

And why not limit sale of food in places that aren't primarily food stores?

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

James Bentham, a co-author of the research from Imperial College, London, says the global trend is likely to be due primarily to improvements in nutrition and healthcare.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age 35.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

We believe that to focus on longevity as primarily an issue of aging is to miss its full implications.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

While they sound efficient and cost-saving, a recent study reports that they are not effective, primarily because depressed patients are not likely to engage with them or stick with them.

2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Some math training programs primarily focus on raising students' math scores.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-affluent kids,' said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director of the program.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in defensive medicine by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sued.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

But, instead, the Chicago union seems to be using its political capital primarily to protect weak performers.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

As countries become richer, they produce more greenhouse gases; and the impact of those gases will fall primarily in poor parts of the world.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

It is also of concern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is given primarily to poor families with limited educational opportunities, not to wealthier families who have many educational advantages.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Newly developing countries that are beginning to industrialise, primarily in Africa, with high to very high population growth rates, and characterised by a predominantly young age profile

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

In less-developed countries, such as those of sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia, wastage tends to occur primarily at the farmer-producer end of the supply chain.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Dan Clancy, the chief architect of Google Books, does seem genuine in his conviction that this is primarily a philanthropic (慈善的) exercise.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Director of the Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Center in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the medical university, Mironov now primarily conducts research on tissue engineering, or growing, of human organs.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Esperanto's vocabulary is drawn primarily from Latin, the Roman's languages, English and German.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

"If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of oppor

2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

lions are primarily ambush hunters, so when they feel their prey has spotted them, they usually give up on the hunt.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in "defensive medicine" by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sue

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

They're primarily designed for Low Earth Orbit(LEO) an easily accessible region of space from around 200 to 800 miles above Earth, where human-tended missions like the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station(ISS) hang out.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Yet our schools focus primarily on students as individual entities.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Although she founded her company early on in life, she wasn't driven primarily by profit.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Where we use sound and sight to communicate, ants depend primarily on pheromone, chemicals sent out by individuals and smelled or tasted by fellow members of their colony.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The researchers’ argument stems from a simple observation about social influence,with the exception of a few celebrities like Oprah Winfrey-whose outsize presence is primarily a function of media,not interpersonal,influence-even the most influential members of a population simply don’t interact with that many others.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

He says he expects the board to “play primarily an advisory role.”

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

Chewing gum, once bought primarily by adolescent boys, is now featured in commercials as a breath freshener and teeth cleanser for use after a meal.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Many French politicians and media outlets have referred to this as a "GAFA tax," meaning that it is designed to apply primarily to companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon—in other words, multinational tech companies based in the United States

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Oxytocin is made primarily in the central lower part of the brain, and some of it is released into the bloodstream.

2017年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

The researchers'argument stems from a simple observation about social influence: with the exception of a few celebrities like Oprah winfrey-whose outsize presence is primarily a function of media, not interpersonal, influence-even the most influential mem

2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Adverb
  • 1. for the most part;

    "he is mainly interested in butterflies"

  • 2. of primary import;

    "this is primarily a question of economics"

    "it was in the first place a local matter"

同义词辨析

mainly, chiefly, greatly, largely, mostly, primarily, principally, generally

这些副词均可表示"主要地,大量地"之意。

  • 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。