| 单词 | dominate |
| 释义 | dom·i·nate transitive verb 1. a. < it has been said that whoever dominates Germany controls Europe > < regional blocs dominated by the great powers might well defy the decisions of the Security Council — Vera M. Dean > < the Cabinet dominates the government of a province in much the same way and to the same extent as the federal Cabinet dominates the government of Canada — R.M.Dawson > < the family financial houses that dominated prewar Japan's industry > < a racketeer-dominated union > b. < the emotions of the prima donna in the hour when she dominates her audience must be unique — Arnold Bennett > < the resentment of subordination and the tendency to dominate others are both grounded in fear — G.S.Blum > < the power to alter and so to dominate much of his environment — W.E.Swinton > 2. a. < the Nile dominates all life in Egypt for good and for bad — Herbert Moller > < two other leaders dominate that dynamic age: Innocent III and Frederick II — Will Durant > < the highest efficiency cannot be produced in any human being unless his whole character and his whole activity be dominated by some sentiment or passion — C.W.Eliot > b. < I have been criticized for “being dominated” by ideas rather than dominating them while composing — J.D.Cook > < painting, essentially a two-dimensional art, was for centuries dominated by the effort to achieve tridimensionality — Herbert Read > < Brown was well over 50 years of age before the idea of freeing the slaves by force dominated his mind > 3. < the once fiery volcano dominates the land for a hundred miles around — G.W.Long > < the Presidentials dominate the other mountain ranges — Bernard DeVoto > < a war-memorial tower dominates the campus > < the meetinghouse which dominates the square — R.M.Hodesh > 4. a. < the cypress, gum, and white cedar which dominate this swamp forest > < Easterners early fixed the culture pattern dominating this section > < this dream pervades the life of a culture as the fantasies of night dominate the mind of a sleeper — Lewis Mumford > < the idea of inescapable illness and operations dominated his life some years before he died — R.T.Hopkins > b. < cotton manufacture dominates the city > < name brands dominate the market > < in Congress law dominates the professions > < national security expenditures continue to dominate the budget > < Egyptian art is dominated by religion > 5. a. < he is one of those figures that dominate an age — Clive Bell > < collecting rather than creating man dominates the art scene at the moment — Emily Genauer > < his eyes were closed and no longer dominated his face with their fierce pride — T.B.Costain > b. < in his interiors … color so dominates the canvas that the composition dissolves into a series of lights — Denys Sutton > < budgetary developments so drastic as to dominate the economic outlook — R.A.Musgrave > intransitive verb 1. < it was necessary for her to dominate and enslave, all her virtues — her strong lust to serve, to give, to nurse, to amuse — came from the imperative need for dominance over almost all she touched — Thomas Wolfe > < his lust for power, his craving to dominate, his burning sense of a historical mission given to him by God — W.L.Shirer > 2. < at times such material considerations as oil are allowed to dominate — Karl Baehr > < the application by the courts of the method of sociology … . Even when it does not seem to dominate, it is always in reserve — B.N.Cardozo > < a dominating factor in industrial growth > 3. < a village nestled under a dominating crag > 4. < flimsy temporary structures dominate — P.S.Fritz > < the dominating rocks are granitic > < the dominating winds are westerly > 5. < let one color dominate, using it in the largest areas — Betty Fisk > < the dominating theme in all this avant-garde fiction — G.A.Wagner > |
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