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Перевод: chiefly
[наречие] главным образом; особенно
Тезаурус:
- Before the election, these had chiefly comprised Patten, Woodward, Saatchi, Andrew Lansley, head of the research department and Steve Hilton, the 22-year-old campaign coordinator.
- He untangles his father's early life - tangled chiefly by Brynner himself who always told interviewers a different story - from Switzerland to the farthest reaches of Russia and then to Paris as a teenager in the Thirties, where he joined a Romany gypsy troupe.
- But, he adds, the problem is not acute because Quorn is aimed chiefly at a "mainstream" market - carnivores who want to try healthier eating, rather than "pure" vegetarians.
- Calumny was inevitable, though Shelley seems to have been chiefly interested in working the feelings of a lively adolescent up to febrile hysteria.
- The small producer will be drawn into a socialised enterprise, not by means of non-economic coercion, but chiefly by the economic advantages which will provide him with a tractor, electric light bulbs, agricultural machinery and so on.
- From 1950 until 1970, however, most American firms borrowed chiefly from banks.
- The citation reads: "Today, the Murdoch tabloid, has distinguished itself chiefly by its self-description throughout 1989 as "Newspaper of the Year".
- Christmas was eagerly awaited for, but the day itself meant chiefly watching for the postman, disappointment, chapel, a heavy dinner and crackers, some squabbling comparisons of our presents, tea supper
- Eliot's Waste Land that "in England it was treated chiefly with indignation or contempt", whereas in America The Dial had awarded the author its annual prize of 2,000.
- Literature on the subject has chiefly been critical; for example, in a special review of the world press in 1973, The Times of London had this to say about the African press in what was a uniformly gloomy and disapproving report:
- The original shareholders were chiefly entrepreneurs who had set up their own firms during the previous half century, such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.
- The agency chiefly concerned with neighbourhood liaison was the City Planning Office, which employed a number of community planners responsible for consulting with their allocation of neighbourhood groups.
- Some shortages were inevitable; among them was a dearth of "brylcream" (a term used for any pomade) used chiefly by women to make their hair glisten.
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