Chiefly

(adv.) for the most part; 'he is mainly interested in butterflies'.

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• The following conclusions are drawn up chiefly from Gartner's admirable work on the hybridisation of plants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• We owe the railroad chiefly to the needs of the north of England, and there we find the real birth of the locomotive. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• What chiefly surprised Edmund was, that Crawford's sister, the friend and companion who had been so much to her, should not be more visibly regretted. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• In the early days of the sewing machine its sales were chiefly for family use, but this is now no longer the case. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• What the servants chiefly resented, I think, was her silent tongue and her solitary ways. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• In the interests of renown the forwardness should lie chiefly in the capacity to handle things. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It consists chiefly of the four following articles. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But the revenue of the sovereign does not, in any part of Europe, arise chiefly from a land tax or land rent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The first railroads to be built were principally branches of the Liverpool and Manchester one, and chiefly located in the mining and manufacturing county of Lancaster. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Chiefly, I fear, for the sake of the money I get. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The factory work at this time related chiefly to stock tickers, principally the Universal, of which at one time twelve hundred were in use. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This constitution was chiefly the joint production of a worthy philosopher Sieyès, who was one of the three consuls, and Bonaparte. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The drill of the student involved chiefly the acquisition of the special signals employed in railway work, including the numerals and abbreviations applied to save time. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It was probably chiefly Egyptian. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is chiefly rose red, then blue, a metallic, mid-blue, and a very soft dark blue. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The duties of excise are imposed chiefly upon goods of home produce, destined for home consumption. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The person to whom the world is chiefly indebted for the practical application of gas lighting is Mr. Winsor, who had been a merchant in London. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• So each consul's family stays at home chiefly and amuses itself as best it can. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• His lighting must have been poor, and chiefly firelight, but there was probably always some fire in the village, summer or winter. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Her population was chiefly a Mongolian population, with some very interesting white people of a Nordic type, the Hairy Ainu, in the northern islands. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The streets present a lively and animated appearance, occasioned chiefly by the conviviality of the military. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The manufactures of Flanders were carried on chiefly with Spanish and English wool. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The people of America are chiefly farmers and planters; scarce anything that they raise or produce is an article of commerce with the Indians. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• And it was chiefly the poorer citizens of Athens who sustained this empire by their most vigorous and incessant personal service. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I get chiefly patients who can't pay me. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The rest of the emperors of this period were chiefly adventurers too unimportant to the general scheme of things for us to note. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These remarks apply chiefly to littoral and sublittoral deposits. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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