[no obj.]be the strongest or main element; be greater in number or amount (数量上)占优势,占绝大多数 small-scale producers predominate in the south. 小型生产者在南方占绝大多数。 ■have or exert control or power 占主导地位,占支配地位 private interest was not allowed to predominate over the public good. 个人利益不许凌驾于公共利益之上。
语源
late 16th cent.: from medieval Latin predominat- 'predominated', from the verb predominari (see pre-, dominate)