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To preponderate is to be more important, or to happen more, than something else. One kind of evidence can preponderate; one view can preponderate in a meeting. It often takes over: the advantages preponderate over the risks. Though actually, this is a rare, stiff verb. Even careful writers often choose outweigh, be more common, or be more important instead — and that usually sounds better. The Latin start is praeponderāre, to outweigh: you are saying one side of the scales wins. It is not a verb for the dinner table. If you use it, keep it for formal writing, and do not force an object the way you would with beat or defeat.
佔優勢、壓過（書面；日常會說「比……多／重要」）
組成From Latin praeponderātus, the past form of praeponderāre, to outweigh.
同家族的字
- preponderantthe adjective: greater in number or importance
- preponderancethe noun: a greater amount or importance
- preponderantlythe adverb: mainly, or for the most part
原始詞典資料4 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。
preponderateverb
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To outweigh; to be heavier than; to exceed in weight.
- an inconsiderable weight by virtue of its distance from the Centre of the Ballance, will preponderate much greater magnitudes
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To overpower by stronger or moral power.
- That is the preponderating consideration to which everything else has to yield.
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obsoleteTo cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
- The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace.
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To exceed in weight or influence; hence, to predominate.
- Anxiety preponderated over hope; and it was scarcely possible for Evelyn to encounter a danger not previously conjured up by the alarmed fancy of his mistress.
- […] if the principle of utility is good for anything, it must be good for weighing these conflicting utilities against one another, and marking out the region within which one or the other preponderates.
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。