知识扩展
相关变形拓展
形容词形式:main(主要的)→同义副词:mostly(主要地);chiefly(主要地)
易混词辨析
mainly、main、mostly、chiefly
1. mainly(副词):“主要地(侧重重要性)”(如 The team mainly consists of young people;强调 “核心构成”,修饰动词);
2. main(形容词):“主要的”(如 the main reason;仅修饰名词,不可作副词,与 mainly 词性不同);
3. mostly(副词):“大部分(侧重数量)”(如 The students are mostly from China;强调 “数量占比”,比 mainly 更侧重 “多量”);
4. chiefly(副词,正式):“主要地”(如 The problem is chiefly caused by carelessness;比 mainly 更正式,书面语常用)。
词语辨析
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。
精选例句
1、 We mainly eat rice and vegetables for dinner.
我们晚餐主要吃米饭和蔬菜。(重点:副词表“主要地”,用于说明重点,位置可灵活调整)
来源:【中考难度例句】秒词邦编辑整理
2、 The amazing food is mainly consumed by local farmers.
这些美味的食物主要为当地农民所享用。
来源:2021 年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试(新高考 I 卷)
1、 Police work is mainly routine.
警察的工作主要都是按常规的。
来源:秒词邦精选例句
1、 This is mainly because women are more likely than men to be single parents living with their children.
这主要是因为女性比男性更有可能成为与孩子同住的单亲父母。
来源:2019年6月四级第2套题[句子搭配题]
1、 These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical.
这些新形式最初主要由学者撰写,由业余演员表演,但在英国,和西欧其他地方一样,专业演员群体的增长威胁着戏剧的流行,无论它是新的还是旧的,古典的还是中世纪的,文学的还是闹剧的。
来源:2018 年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语(一)翻译试题
**【点此进秒词邦小程序】查看更多真题例句