major mode

基本解释

So far, if you edit an .html document, the old HTML major mode will be invoked.
到目前为止，如果编辑 .html 文档，则会调用原有的 HTML 主方式。
The first section of Listing 5 tells Emacs which major mode to invoke when you load a file with a particular extension, similar to the way Windows associates application based on file type.
清单 5 中的第一部分告诉 Emacs，当装入带有特定扩展名的文件时，调用哪种主方式，这与 Windows 中根据文件类型关联应用程序的方法类似。
For quite a long time, large-scale internalized R & D as well as commercialization conducted by big enterprises had been the major mode of technology innovation in industrialized countries.
在相当长的时期内，大企业内部大规模的研究与开发活动和科技成果商业应用一直是工业化国家创新的主要模式。

So, we've got scales that are in the major mode; we've got scales in the minor mode.
我们已经听过大调的调式了,我们已经接触过小调式了
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And they got in this habit of, every time they had a bright, happy text, they'd set this in one kind of mode or key-- a major mode--and every time they had a sad one, they'd set it in minor.
于是人们养成了这样的习惯,每当人们书写欢乐,愉悦的歌词时,他们就设定一个调式或调性,即大调,每当人们书写忧伤的歌词时,他们就定为小调
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