分量上壓過別人
秤盤沉下去，是因為這一邊本身就重：力量、影響力、重要性都壓過其他人。
noun · C1
The state of having more power, influence, or importance than anyone or anything else in a particular area.
優勢；主導地位
核心畫面
Think of a set of scales with several pans, and one pan sitting lower than all the rest. The word names that tilt — the fact that one thing is pressing down harder than everything else in the group. What puts it down there can be two different things. It may be weight: one country, one company, one team simply outmatches the others. Or it may be sheer number: so many of one kind went into the pan that nothing else comes close.
可以想成一台有好幾個秤盤的天平，其中一盤沉得比其他都低。這個字講的就是那個往下沉的狀態——這一邊壓過了其他每一邊。讓…更多收起
可以想成一台有好幾個秤盤的天平，其中一盤沉得比其他都低。這個字講的就是那個往下沉的狀態——這一邊壓過了其他每一邊。讓它沉下去的原因有兩種。一種是分量：某個國家、某家公司、某支隊伍就是比別人強。另一種是數量：同一類的東西丟進去太多了，其他盤怎麼比都比不上。From the word’s history
The packet gives two cuts of the same word. It comes from predominant plus the noun ending -ance; and by surface analysis it is pre- plus dominance. Dominance already means holding others down, and pre- puts this one out in front of the rest. That is the tilted pan: not merely strong, but ahead of everything else in the group.
證據給了兩種拆法。一種是 predominant 加上名詞字尾 -ance。另一種照字面拆，是 pre-（在前面）加 dominance（支配）。dominance 本來就有壓住別人的意思，pre- 再把這一個推到其他人前面。合起來就是那個沉下去的秤盤：不只是強，而是在這一群裡走在最前面。
Wiktionary entry for predominance, kaikki extract supplied in the evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1092011206:5060): 'From predominant + -ance. By surface analysis, pre- + dominance.'
Two branches
數量上壓過別類
同樣是那個沉下去的秤盤，但這次壓下去的不是力量，而是件數——同一類丟進去太多了。
noun · C1
The fact that one type of person or thing is more numerous in a group than any other type.
占多數；居多