principally

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prin·ci·pally /ˈprɪnsəpli/ AWL adverbadv

MAINmainly 主要地

The money is principally invested in stocks and shares.

这笔钱主要投资于股票。

He was principally a landscape painter.

他主要是风景画画家。

We met principally to discuss the future of the school.

我们开会主要是为了商讨学校的前途。

Examples from the Corpus

principally• The Special Branch, on the other hand, was under G-2 and was principally an analytical organization with no operational control.• The market was principally composed of lambs of varied breed and from many diverse parts of the country.• Although other factors are involved, the depreciation in value is principally due to the number of these coins found by detector users.• The road is used principally for military purposes.• These principally involved the fishing industry, but they also included many other activities - even the construction of railways.• Empiricism is principally the use of replicable experimental techniques, applied to texts.• Somerville has always had strong links overseas, principally through Graduate House.

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