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单词 primarily
释义
primarily
adverb
uk
/praɪˈmer.əl.i/us
/praɪˈmer.əl.i/
B2
mainly:
主要地
We're primarilyconcernedwithkeepingexpendituredown.我们主要关心的是缩减开支。
Baseball is primarily asummergame.篮球基本上是一项夏季运动。
Synonyms
chiefly
in themain
mainly
principally
More examples
  • The newschemeisaimedprimarily atteenagers.
  • acoursedesignedprimarily forexperts
  • WemovedtoScotlandprimarily because wewantedto benearerto myfamily.
  • This is acontroversialprocedure, primarily because ofknownside-effects.
  • Welivein asocietywhichviewssuccessprimarily intermsofmaterialpossessions.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
General
  • abstract
  • abstraction
  • abstractly
  • across-the-board
  • all-purpose
  • broad
  • broadness
  • by and largeidiom
  • chiefly
  • general
  • generalist
  • non-personal
  • on the wholeidiom
  • overall
  • portmanteau
  • principle
  • sense
  • stuff
  • thing
  • whole
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(Definition ofprimarilyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

primarily| American Dictionary

primarily
adverb[not gradable]
us
/prɑɪˈmeər·ə·li,prɑɪˈmer·ə·li/
mainly:
The company’sfailurewas primarilyduetoweaksales.
(Definition ofprimarilyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprimarily

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There is also a witnesses' room with separate access to the court - a last-minute addition to the plans,primarilyintended for women.
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The cost of replacing carbon by growing trees is so highprimarilybecause of the opportunity costs of foregoing agricultural production on prime cropland.
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This is because vowels in bothprimarilyand secondarily stressed syllables are rendered strong and not weakened.
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Ultimately the genre survives in the twenty-first centuryprimarilyin our university choruses and local choral societies.
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She took this decisionprimarilybased on moralistic ground.
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In other words, the theoretical background isprimarilybased on processual history.
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The students workedprimarilyin the multitrack window, to organise their story-line.
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Many of the children areprimarilysuffering from exposure to violence and remain traumatized.
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Thus, the switch to defined contributions isprimarilya cost-cutting exercise.
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The competition was detrimentalprimarilyto the cacao trees.
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They are mainly non-verbal and all three areprimarilyconcerned with the experience of playing.
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If recognition and identification are carried outprimarilyby the ventral system, using long-term memory, what is it that is recognized and identified?
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It is an intensive group therapy programme that isprimarilydirected at the normalization of eating and the restoration of body weight.
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Were this applause directed to the cast alone, then the report would be of interestprimarilyin the history of performance.
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Modals perform more or less the same task, differingprimarilyin the interpretation assigned to the grounding relation.
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