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...
股票市場的醜聞遲遲沒有消散,這主要是因為人們仍未就如何應對它達成共識。
The birds live mainly on nectar.
這些鳥主要以花蜜為食。
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...
觀眾中有一半是非洲人,其中大多數來自塞內加爾或馬裡。
The spacious main bedroom is mainly blue.
寬敞的主臥室以藍色為主色調。
1. for the most part;
mainly, chiefly, greatly, largely, mostly, primarily, principally, generally
這些副詞均可表示"主要地,大量地"之意。
Theatres and cinemas were grouped mainly on the two streets.
劇院和電影院主要集中在那兩條街上.
A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.
種植綠肥作物主要是為使土壤更加肥沃.
He has been poaching on her land for years, poaching mainly fish and rabbits.
數年來他一直在她的土地上偷獵, 主要捕魚和偷獵兔子.
The strike was broken , of course, but mainly by a series of adventitious developments.
罷工是中斷了, 但主要還是由於發生了一系列意外事件.
Thinking is mainly performed with words and other symbols.
思想主要是用言語和其他符號來表達的.