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词源

preponderant +‎ -ance

发音

• (标准英音) IPA^(帮助)：/pɹɪˈpɒndəɹəns/, /pɹɪˈpɒndɹəns/

• （英国南部）音频

• (通用美式) IPA^(帮助)：/pɹəˈpɑndəɹəns/, /pɹəˈpɑndɹəns/

• （通用美式）音频

• 断字：pre‧pon‧der‧ance

名词

preponderance（可数 & 不可数，复数 preponderances）

1. (弃用) 大的重量，沉重

   近义词： (obsolete) preponderancy

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2. （数量上的）优势；大量，很多，众多

   近义词： (弃用) preponderancy

   • 1857，R[obert] Harries Jones，“Part the Second”，出自 The Japhetic Races. A Historical and Ethnological Inquiry into the Consanguinity of Various European Races. […]，Göttingen:Printed at the University Press by W. Fr. Kaestner, OCLC 1013331293, section II, 页号36:

     [S]trong proofs are at hand to shew, that in the Irish people there is a large admixture, if not an overwhelming praeponderance, of Iberian elements.

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   • 1997年8月17日，Patricia Holt，“Just add sand; trash fiction for end-of-the summer beach reading”，出自 San Francisco Chronicle，San Francisco, Calif.:Hearst Communications, ISSN 1932-8672, OCLC 5697914, 页号1:

     Is there a preponderance of female protagonists in commercial fiction, and if so, what does it mean?

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   • 2000年4月17日，Paul Van Slambrouck，“California’s brightest star is, well, gray”，出自 The Christian Science Monitor‎^[1]，Boston, Mass.:Christian Science Publishing Society, ISSN 0882-7729, OCLC 705641703:

     Subtle, institutional discrimination was evident in the preponderance of blacks and underprivileged whites fighting the war.

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3. （影响力、实力、质量上的）优势，优越性

   近义词： (弃用) preponderancy、preponderation

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   • 1953，Sigmund Freud，“Distortion in Dreams”，出自James Strachey译，， The Interpretation of Dreams (First Part) (The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud)，卷号IV，London:The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis，出版年份1971, →ISBN, 页号134:

     But even less disgruntled observers have insisted that pain and unpleasure are more common in dreams than pleasure: for instance, Scholz (1893, 57), Volkelt (1875, 80), and others. Indeed two ladies, Florence Hallam and Sarah Weed (1896, 499), have actually given statistical expression, based on a study of their own dreams, to the preponderance of unpleasure in dreaming.

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其他形式

• praeponderance (弃用, 罕用)
• præponderance (弃用, 罕用)

衍生词汇

• preponderance of evidence、preponderance of the evidence

相关词汇

延伸阅读

• preponderance in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• preponderance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913