0 the largest or most important part of a meal in which there are different parts served separately -- 主菜
For example, a dinner can be divided into parts such as salad, a main course, and a dessert.
The functions that it finds easy to compute are those with enough support from the environment to enable behavior to be corrected when it deviates from the main course.
Like a meal of small shared dishes, the pleasure of tasting lots of different things is tempered by the sense of losing out on the main course.
Most books are predictably set out lineally; often the arrangement is tripartite like a meal of starter, main course, and something to finish off; sometimes it is a sausagelike continuum.
People vote for a party largely on the basis of their general approval of the main course of action that it represents.
I believe that fish is to be the main course.
