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/ˈmoʊstli/ · /ˈməʊstli/
Used to say that something is true or happens in most cases, or that most of a group is a certain way.
大多；主要
核心畫面
Picture a jar of beans that is nearly all black beans, with a few white ones mixed in. When you point at it and say 'mostly black beans', you are naming the big part while quietly admitting the small part is still in there. That gesture — pointing at the large share, not at the whole — can be held as the picture inside 'mostly'. It works the same way over time: mark the days when something happens as the big block on a calendar, leave a few days , and 'mostly' is how you describe that calendar in one word.
可以想成一罐豆子，裡面幾乎都是黑豆，只夾雜幾顆白的。你指著它說 mostly black beans，等於一邊講「大…更多收起
可以想成一罐豆子，裡面幾乎都是黑豆，只夾雜幾顆白的。你指著它說 mostly black beans，等於一邊講「大部分是黑豆」，一邊也悄悄承認「還是有幾顆不是」。mostly 的畫面比較像這個手勢——指的是那一大塊，而不是全部。時間上也一樣：把有發生的日子塗在月曆上，塗成一大片、留下幾格空白，那張月曆用一個字講，就是 mostly。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mostlyadv/ˈməʊstli/
- 1
Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole.
- They're mostly good people, although they have made a few mistakes.
- Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
- 2
obsoleteTo the greatest extent; most.
- She was to be their chosen visitor, she was to be for weeks under the same roof with the person whose society she mostly prized [...]!
- 3
Synonym of probably, likely.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。