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同义词
同义词解析
  • 以下这些形容词均含有"首要的,主要的" 的意思
    chief指人时,表同类中职位最高,权力最大;指物时,表同类中最重要,价值最高。
    principal用于人时,指地位优于其他人;用于物时,指该物在大小、重要性等方面优于他物。
    main通常只用于物。指在一定范围内,某物的重要性、体积或力量等超过其它物。
    major指同其他人或其它物、问题等相比较,显得更加重要和突出。
    leading侧重指具有影响力或凝聚力。从而有主导和引导的作用。
    capital着重指因重要性、意义、优越或重大而名列同类之首。
    foremost侧重指在行进或发展过程中居首位。
    primary通常不用于人。用于物时,指在重要性方面占第一位。
词组
  • by main force
    through sheer strength 尽全力
  • in the main
    on the whole 总体上,大体上
英语四级真题
  • What do animals do? There are three main ways that animals survive the cold in winter: sleep, adapt or migrate.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Rather than superpower conflict, countries unable to cope with food shortages now constitute the main threat to world security.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • In the 20th century the main threat to international security was superpower conflict; today it is failing states.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Much of the criticism is directed at the British Airports Authority, which runs seven major airports, including the three main ones serving in London.
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  • One of the main theoretical home-security concerns is whether or not a given system is vulnerable to being blocked from working altogether.
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  • What is the main concern of students when they choose a major?
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  • i) The main worry is regulatory uncertainty.
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  • What is the main idea of the passage
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  • Her main reason for returning to academia mid-career was to take advantage of the greater freedom to choose research questions.
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  • Students mark the main ideas and important details with a pen or pencil, yellow or blue or orange.
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • For example, maybe you will mark main ideas in yellow, important details in blue and new words in orange
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  • Not paying attention to his driving, McLaughlin turned right on main street in 33rd street and hit Volkswagen Rabbit.
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • He tore down the company's main gate
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  • Farmington, Utah, is a more pleasant community since a local girls' 4-H club improved Main Street.
    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • The experience on Main Street stimulated self-improvement, and encouraged members to take pride in their home grounds and the total community
    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • What do we learn about Main Street in Farmington?
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  • Well, the main activities in the region were historically steel and paper processing, I think.
    出自-2012年6月听力原文
  • What is Chris's main responsibility at Taxlong Company?
    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • Now with three places my main concern is keeping the business successful and running smoothly.
    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • A study by the University of Manchester calculated the emissions of CO2—the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change—at every stage of microwaves, from manufacture to waste disposal.
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  • Around 1804, Talleyrand challenged Careme to produce a full menu for his personal castle, instructing the young baker to use local, seasonal fruits and vegetables and to avoid repeating main dishes over the course of an entire year.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • For a banquet celebrating the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia's visit to George IV's Brighton Pavillion on Jan.18th, 1817, the menu featured 120 different dishes, highlighting eight different soups, 40 main courses, and 32 desserts.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • In the center of the main road, there's a long line of flags of the world.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Japan says fear of disease is its main reason to block fresh imports.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Local media reports suggest Calbee and its main rival Koike-Ya are halting almost 50 products.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Much of the criticism is directed at the British airports Authority, which runs seven major airports, including the three main ones serving in London.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • On a recent fall morning, a large crowd blocked the steps at one of Venice's main tourist sites, the Rialto Bridge.
    2018年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • since the 1990s, the council has surveyed hundreds of thousands of knitters and crocheters, who routinely list stress relief and creative fulfillment as the activities' main benefits.
    2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Songdo is a stone's throw from South Korea's Incheon airport, its main international hub(枢纽).
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  • Storms and floods in its main potato growing region last year caused the worst harvest in more than 3 decades.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • These sauces—bechamel, veloute, espagnole and allemande—formed the central building blocks for many French main courses.
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  • This is after the country's main manufacturer stopped sales due to a potato shortage.
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英语六级真题
  • One main factor that has driven up medical expenses is that doctors are compensated for the amount of care rather than its effect.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • It's true that the main reason inner-city schools do poorly isn't teachers' unions, but poverty.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Professor Henderson, could you give us a brief overview of what you do, where you work and your main area of research? I have many Business English students.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • Newspapers relay daily accounts of goal-setting prevalent in industries and businesses up and down both Wall Street and Main Street , yet there has been surprisingly little research on how the long-trumpeted practice of setting goals may have contributed to the current economic crisis , and unethical (不道德的)behavior in general.
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • What is the author's main concern about American higher education?
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • What is a main concern of the writers of Generation O?
    出自-2010年6月阅读原文
  • :What is the woman's main consideration in hiring a car?
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • It won't be a problem, but I need to send them over to our main cleaning facility.
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • The man has to go to the main cleaning facility
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  • A recent study shows that meat consumption is one of the main ways that human can damage the environment, second only to the use of motor vehicles.
    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • After outlining the main points she would cover, she assured the audience that she would be happy to answer questions at the end of her presentation.
    出自-2012年12月听力原文
  • What is Chris's main responsibility at Taxlong Company?
    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • She would prefer to start writing about something more interesting and less unpleasant such as local news or politics, maybe next year Florence Hayes Green Ville 32 What is Florence Hayes' main responsibility as a journalist
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  • "And yet that happens every day in the video game world," Farley told reporters during a press conference Friday. "I was a main character in Fallout 4, a character by the name of Kellogg, and I never knew that I was doing vocal recording for that game thr
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  • In 2018, farmers will plant the varieties with the most promise in the Ebro Delta and Europe's other two main rice-growing regions—along the Po in Italy, and France's Rhone.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Or head out to the mall, or Main Street, look and shop, and buy.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Professor Henderson, could you give us a brief overview of what you do, where you work and your main area of research?
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • Science journalism is the main channel for the popularization of scientific information among the public.
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  • So far, the main thing many large retailers have done in response to all this is to open online stores, so people will come to them directly rather than to Amazon and its smaller online rivals.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • So now, the main challenge was to find the right material for printing clothes with, I mean the material you feed the printer with.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • The big questions are which, if any, of the large traditional retailers will still be on the scene in a decade or two because they have successfully reinvented themselves, which new players will operate busy stores on Main Streets and maybe even in shoppi
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • The main building is topped with a Georgian tower with four sculptures of the mythical winged horse, the magazine's corporate logo.
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  • Today's crisis in care for older people in England has two main causes.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
英汉词典释义
英英词典释义
  • Noun
    1. any very large body of (salt) water
    2. a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage
  • Adjective
    1. most important element;
    "the chief aim of living""the main doors were of solid glass""the principal rivers of America""the principal example""policemen were primary targets"
    2. of a clause; able to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence;
    "the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb"
    3. of force; of the greatest possible intensity;
    "by main strength"
行业词典
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