main clause

英 [ˌmeɪn ˈklɔːz]

美 [ˌmeɪn ˈklɔːz]

n.  主句

法律

牛津词典

noun

• 主句
  a group of words that includes a subject and a verb and can form a sentence

柯林斯词典

• (语法中的)主句
  Amain clauseis a clause that can stand alone as a complete sentence.

英英释义

noun

• a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
  Synonym:independent clause

双语例句

• A verb, such as have, can, or will, that accompanies the main verb in a clause and helps to make distinctions in mood, voice, aspect, and tense.
  一类动词，如有，可以，或将，在句中伴随主动词，起到帮助区分语气，语态，体及时态。
• When the reporting clause does not appears at the beginning of the sentence, then the clause is regarded as a comment clause, and the direct/ indirect speech as the main clause.
  当转述小句不出现在句首时，它被视为评述分句，直/间接引语被认为是主句。
• In the process of semantic extension from the starting point of the main clause event, time to the main clause event, time, the counter, expectation implicature plays a major role.
  由时间起点义向单纯时间义的语义扩张过程中，这些时间从句常带有的反预期的语用含义起着决定性的作用。
• Clauses of contrast give information that surprises, or contrasts with the main clause.
  对比状语从句用来表示超出主句表达的意义或与主句形成对比的信息。
• This Paper discusses selection principle and method for main blower of Clause sulfur recovery unit, and control way of flow rate, gives a conversion formuls of characteristic curve of centrifugal blower, puts forward several matters to which the attention must be paid in selecting main blower.
  本文论述了硫磺回收装置主风机的设计选用原则、选用方法及流量调节方式，给出了离心鼓风机的特性曲线换算公式，并提出了设计选用主风机所需注意的问题。
• In any English grammar textbooks, there are certain chapters analyzing complex sentences and its subordinate clause and main clause.
  在英语语法著作中，都有专门的章节阐述所谓的复合句、包括从属分句和领句。
• The main ( or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb.
  复杂句中的主句至少有一个主语和一个动词。
• Concessive adverbial clause is used to express certain unfavorable circumstances or opposite conditions, which however, do not prevent the action in the main clause from happening.
  让步状语从句表示某种不利的情况或相反的条件，但这些因素并不能阻止主句动作的发生。
• First, the thesis will identify the process type and main participant of each clause in the two war declaration speeches. Then, a qualitative approach will be adopted to reveal the distributions and functions of process types and main participants.
  文章首先确定两篇宣战演讲中每个句子的过程类型及主要参与者，然后通过定性分析来揭示主要过程及参与者的分布情况及功能，最后指出两篇演说的及物性系统的异同。
• This thesis analyses the syntactic and semantic features of English postpositive attributes, and holds that English postpositive attributes have three semantic features, i.e. modifying and describing the headword, supplementing and explaining the headword, and logically showing the circumstance of actions in the main clause.
  本文分析了英语后置定语的句法和语义特点，认为英语后置定语主要具有对中心词起到限定和描写、补充和说明以及表示主句行为发生的情状等语义特点。