mostly, most
这两个词词意不同,但词形相近,前者意为“最”,后者意为“主要地”。
1.用来修饰动词时,前者不能放在动宾之间; 而后者则可以。
2.在修饰含有情态色彩或主观意义的形容词或副词,通常用前者而不用后者。
mainly，chiefly，greatly，largely，mostly，primarily，principally，generally
这些副词都可表示“主要地、大量地”之意。
mainly指主要部分，突出在一系列事物中的相对重要性。
chiefly侧重某人或某物在众多的人或物中占主要和显著地位。
greatly通常强调程度的高。
largely着重范围或分量大大超过别的成分。
mostly强调数量占多半，近乎全部。
primarily侧重基本地，首要地。
principally侧重居首要地位。
generally通常强调普遍性。
The students of Umtata High School were mostly Protestant.
乌姆塔塔中学的学生大多数是新教徒.
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Her pains are mostly pure imagination.
她的疼痛多半是纯粹想像出来的东西.
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There was mostly silence. I have never known such economy with words.
大部分时候都是沉默，我还从未见过如此惜字如金的情形。
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He mostly stayed at home tucking up the children.
他主要待在家里，帮孩子们盖好被子睡觉。
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I live mostly on coffee and ginger ale.
我主要喝咖啡和姜汁汽水。
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The audience were mostly adolescents.
听众几乎都是年轻人.
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They feed mostly on decaying vegetable matter.
它们大多以腐烂的蔬菜为食。
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The burglars in the city are mostly jobless people.
城里的夜贼多为无业人员.
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Mostly, they fight about paying bills.
通常他们是为谁来支付账单而争吵。
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The glass of beer was mostly froth.
这杯啤酒大部分是泡沫.
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They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.
他们大多住在近郊.
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A hard core of supporters, mostly teenage girls, gathered at the airport to see the star arrive.
支持者的中坚分子大多是十几岁的女孩子, 聚集在机场一睹这位明星的到来.
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AIDS kills mostly the young population of a nation. These are the people who contribute most to a country's economic development.
死于艾滋病的主要是一个国家的年轻人,而正是这些人对国家经济发展贡献最大.
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The audience consisted mostly of women.
观众主要是妇女.
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He has the occasional cigarette, but mostly he smokes a pipe.
他偶尔抽香烟, 但通常是抽烟斗.
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The chapter is mostly wordy rhetoric.
这一章多为冗长的华丽词藻。
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I was meeting these chaps who were mostly more or less my own age.
我见到了这帮小伙子，他们多数和我年龄相仿。
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Timothy was crying, mostly from exhaustion, and his nose was running.
由于太累了，蒂莫西哭的一把鼻涕一把泪。
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The American Congress and media mostly missed the point about all this.
美国国会和媒体大都没搞清这一切的核心问题。
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In fact, the recordings were mostly unrehearsed improvisations.
事实上，这些唱片收录的大部分乐曲都是没排练过的即兴之作。
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I am working with mostly highly motivated people.
和我共事的人大多积极性极高。
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She uses her car mostly for driving to work.
她的汽车主要用于上下班.
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The sauce is mostly cream.
这沙司主要是奶油。
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Our weather has been mostly warm.
我们这里的天气多半是暖和的.
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Her own twelve pictures sold fairly well, mostly to friends and family.
她自己的12幅画卖得相当好，多半卖给了朋友和家人。
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The highest quality paper is made mostly from rags.
上好的纸多半是用破布制造的.
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