mostly

英[ˈməʊstli]美[ˈmoʊstli]

adv.主要地，大部分，通常；

英语六级真题

Contestants of elite high school math competitions are mostly Asian and white students from well-off families.

Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.

A New York City-based nonprofit called Bridge to Enter Mathematics runs a residential summer program aimed at getting underserved students, mostly black and Hispanic, working toward math and science careers.

Private markets for goods, services, labor, and securities do mostly self-correct, but panic feeds on itself and disarms these stabilizing tendencies.

Younger people today mostly accept that they will have to work for longer and that their pensions will be less generous.

After all, older people themselves mostly have families

The predicted intergenerational warfare is unlikely because most of the older people themselves mostly have families.

The Polytechnic is all adults and mostly preparation for exams like the Cambridge certificates.

A New York city-based nonprofit called Bridge to Enter Mathematics runs a residential summer program aimed at getting underserved students, mostly black and hispanic, working toward math and science careers.

As I said earlier, it’s mostly vegetables.

Despite the success of the experiment, the actual results are worrisome, and mostly confirm earlier studies.

Indeed, our schools and universities are structured to mould pupils to be mostly obedient servants of rationality, and to develop outdated skills in interacting with outdated machines.

Mediterranean cooking uses smaller amounts of saturated fat and higher amounts of unsaturated fat, mostly in the form of olive oil.

Merian started raising insects at home, mostly butterflies and caterpillars.

Moffitt said it's still unclear why some children have better self-control than others, though she says other researchers have found that it's mostly a learned behavior, with relatively little genetic influence.

One or both of these models will help researchers test their ideas—so far mostly done in the lab - on test plots.

The code talkers worked mostly in the islands in the Pacific.

The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than Earth.

These fears are mostly exaggerated: as with hysteria about genetic modification, we humans are generally wise enough to manage these problems with speed and care.

We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around a million and a half years ago and meanwhile they mostly lost their coat of fur.

We spend a great deal of time studying history, Hawking said, which, let's face it, is mostly the history of stupidity.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

ADV

大多;多半;主要地

You use mostly to indicate that a statement is generally true, for example true about the majority of a group of things or people, true most of the time, or true in most respects.

例句

英汉词典释义

adv.

大部分, 主要地, 多半, 通常, 一般地

英英词典释义

Adverb

1. in large part; mainly or chiefly;

2. usually; as a rule;