MAINmain, most important, or most frequent 主要的;最重要的;最经常的
—preponderantlyadverbadv
the preponderantly female staff at the factory
工厂里占多数的女员工
Examples from the Corpus
preponderant• There is a preponderant objection: popularity is worthless as an index of quality.• Before the war the preponderant output was produced in mass for a prospective demand.• Its influence remained preponderant until the tenth century.• As a result, I share the preponderant view that shorter sentences are often worse than longer sentences.
Originpreponderant
(1600-1700)Latin present participle of praeponderare“to weigh more than”