mostly

英語

替代寫法

• mostlie (過時)
• moastly (過時)

詞源

most +‎ -ly。

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈməʊstli/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈmoʊstli/

• 音頻 (美國)：

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副詞

mostly (無比較級)

1. 主要、首先；大多；通常、廣泛、大抵、大都。

   They're mostly good people, although they have made a few mistakes.

   雖然他們都犯過錯，但是他們大多是好人。

   • 2013年6月29日，“A punch in the gut”, in The Economist，卷 407, 期 8842，頁s 72-3:

     Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.

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2. (棄用) 最
   • 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, [1]:

     She was to be their chosen visitor, she was to be for weeks under the same roof with the person whose society she mostly prized [...]!

同義詞

• (主要、首先)： by and large、in the main、more often than not、largely、predominantly、principally