Big Words (247)"压倒"怎么说？

• High school students preparing to study in the United States preponderate in the tour group.

旅行团里准备赴美留学的中学生占据了大多数。

preponderate

v. 超过；胜过；占优势

英英释义：to be more important or larger in size or number than other people or things in a group

•Ethnic Chinese preponderate in the population of Singapore.

在新加坡的人口中，华人居多数。

知识加餐：

Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.

每个人不可能在所有事情上随心所欲。如果他的关联有时占上风，那当其他人的观点在其他时候占主导地位时，他就应该默许。如果没有这种共有的性情，我们就是脱节的个体，而不是一个社会。