mainly
adv. 主要地; 大多
You use mainly when mentioning the main reason or thing involved in something.
The stock-market scandal is refusing to go away, mainly because there's still no consensus over how it should be dealt with...
股票市场的丑闻迟迟没有消散,这主要是因为人们仍未就如何应对它达成共识。
The birds live mainly on nectar.
这些鸟主要以花蜜为食。
You use mainly when you are referring to a group and stating something that is true of most of it.
The African half of the audience was mainly from Senegal or Mali...
观众中有一半是非洲人,其中大多数来自塞内加尔或马里。
The spacious main bedroom is mainly blue.
宽敞的主卧室以蓝色为主色调。
1. for the most part;
mainly, chiefly, greatly, largely, mostly, primarily, principally, generally
这些副词均可表示"主要地,大量地"之意。
Theatres and cinemas were grouped mainly on the two streets.
剧院和电影院主要集中在那两条街上.
A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.
种植绿肥作物主要是为使土壤更加肥沃.
He has been poaching on her land for years, poaching mainly fish and rabbits.
数年来他一直在她的土地上偷猎, 主要捕鱼和偷猎兔子.
The strike was broken , of course, but mainly by a series of adventitious developments.
罢工是中断了, 但主要还是由于发生了一系列意外事件.
Thinking is mainly performed with words and other symbols.
思想主要是用言语和其他符号来表达的.