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  1. This building was primarily intended to be a dinning hall.
    这座建筑原来是打算用作餐厅的。
  2. Most linguists would say they were concerned primarily with the structure of languages.
    大多数语言学家都会说,他们主要研究各种语言的结构。


primarily
[ adv ]
  1. for the most part

  2. <adv.all>
    he is mainly interested in butterflies
  3. of primary import

  4. <adv.all>
    this is primarily a question of economics
    it was in the first place a local matter


Primarily \Pri"ma*ri*ly\, adv.
In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place;
in the first intention; originally.

  1. "Baseball is a kind of theater: they have a lot in common." Mr. Nederlander is one of five brothers and a sister, most of whom are closely involved with the family business, run primarily from New York and Detroit.
  2. The last tiny dusky died of old age in June in a specially designed environment on Discovery Island, a Walt Disney World zoological park primarily for birds.
  3. The formula is based primarily on Chase's cost of hedging its exposure in the futures market.
  4. The drop stemmed mainly from huge losses at the Douglas Aircraft unit, which primarily builds commercial jets.
  5. Although the ticks that carry the ailment live on deer in their adult stages, Lyme disease is transmitted by bites from immature ticks, which feed primarily on mice.
  6. In its SEC filing yesterday, the group of companies affiliated with the Pritzker family said it acquired the Ramada stock "primarily for investment purposes."
  7. Both companies make pressure-measurement systems used primarily by semiconductor makers.
  8. This year's shipments, primarily from Australia and New Zealand but also more than a dozen other countries, are forecast at 2.08 billion pounds, nearly twice the amount of exports.
  9. Many grain traders had expected the Soviet Union to use its first batch of credit guarantees to buy primarily corn and soybeans to feed livestock.
  10. During the first half of the 1980s, money tended to slosh around primarily in the already-developed world.
  11. The Democratic presidential nominee invoked Truman's battling underdog memory across the Midwest as he pressed his argument that Bush is an elitist whose proposal to reduce the federal tax on capital gains would benefit primarily the wealthy.
  12. Costs increased primarily from losses in having to sell homes in depressed markets, the council survey said.
  13. The current account is the most important trade statistic, because it covers not only merchandise trade but also trade in the services category, which reflects primarily the flow of investment earnings between countries.
  14. Mellon's difficulties primarily reflect loan problems in its energy, foreign, commercial real estate, and traditional heavy-industry portfolios.
  15. The super-highway, however, looks like being primarily a medium of entertainment: thus, there is a case that the commercial market should dictate who gets it.
  16. The king has refused to join Egypt, Syria and other Arab states that have sent troops _ even if they are primarily token contingents _ to join the Western buildup in Saudi Arabia against Iraq.
  17. Analysts are divided over the rumor of Soviet buying primarily because such purchases have fallen short for the previous two years.
  18. Canadian union officials said they are primarily concerned about jobs at Ford's Oakville, Ontario, car assembly plant, one of two in North America that makes Tempo and Topaz compact cars.
  19. But theft victims in El Paso are less likely than residents of other areas to recover their stolen cars, primarily because they disappear over the border, police said.
  20. The biggest negative factor was a drop in plant and equipment orders, which primarily reflected a drop in aircraft orders during the month.
  21. The group, which advocates primarily liberal causes, counts suburbanites and blue-collar workers among its 1.5 million members in 24 states.
  22. Sugar is rationed in the Soviet Union, primarily because it is used for making moonshine.
  23. Wilson, a California Republican, said his information was based primarily on news reports and a conversation with the Rogerses.
  24. Zilkha is a privately owned oil and gas exploration, development and production company with operations primarily in Louisiana and Texas federal waters.
  25. They will be used primarily on its route network to European, African and Middle Eastern destinations.
  26. Renault and Peugeot are getting less integrated and becoming primarily designers and assemblers.
  27. Investors had quickly bid up the stocks of companies that benefit from a lower dollar, primarily multinational concerns such as drug and chemical firms.
  28. But a report by the General Accounting Office appears to support the Bush administration's contention that rural hospitals are losing money primarily because their costs are too high.
  29. This is something that must be overcome primarily through a change in moral standards.
  30. Although idealists might claim that unions exist to help the downtrodden, they have made their past gains primarily by recruiting from the middle and upper echelons of labor, and they are likely to see no reason to proceed differently now.
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