Prevailing
[prɪ'veɪlɪŋ] or [pri'velɪŋ]
解释:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prevail
(a.) Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive.
(a.) Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion.
整理:米莉
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Effectual, dominant, predominant, efficacious, preponderating.[2]. Received (at the present time), current, established, ordinary, usual, PREVALENT, widely extended, most general.
编辑:诺拉
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Controlling, ruling, influential, operative, predominant, prevalent, rife,ascendant, most_general, most_common
ANT:Mitigated, diminishing, subordinate, powerless
整理:莱缪尔
例句:
- Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- One now prevailing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- I grant that in the rigid political conditions prevailing to-day a new issue is an embarrassment, perhaps a hindrance to the procedure of political life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Vice in our cities is a form of the sexual impulse--one of the forms it has taken under prevailing social conditions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- But his prevailing occupation was splendour. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- This exhibited merely the prevailing price of gold; but as its quotations changed from instant to instant, it was in a most literal sense the cynosure of neighboring eyes. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Our prevailing habit is to think about phrases, ideals, theories, not about the realities they express. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The Evans system, with minor modifications and improvements, was the prevailing one for three-quarters of a century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- This advice prevailing over the stables and the jelly, they turned towards the coach-office to witness the Lightning's arrival. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- It bowed to the prevailing conscience when it proposed taboos instead of radical changes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- If you want to impose a taboo upon a whole community, you must do it autocratically, you must make it part of the prevailing superstitions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- His judges sat upon the Bench in feathered hats; but the rough red cap and tricoloured cockade was the head-dress otherwise prevailing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Therefore, if it had depended upon me to touch the prevailing chord among them with any skill, I should have made a poor hand of it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Their prevailing tints are gray and brown, approaching to red. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- This fixation has brought down upon the socialists a torrent of abuse in which atheism and materialism are prevailing epithets. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The Sol skilfully carries a vein of the prevailing interest through the Harmonic nights. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The armored cruiser was the particular development of the antagonistic views prevailing among naval architects. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- All over the world the close of the sixteenth century saw monarchy prevailing and tending towards absolutism. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The prevailing animals in the spreading woods of Europe were the royal stag, the great ox, and the bison; the mammoth and the musk ox had gone. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Sir Thomas Liverseege had fallen a victim to the prevailing fever at Swampton. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- This view was so contrary to prevailing beliefs that Copernicus refused to publish his theory for th irty-six years. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The satisfaction of prevailing on one of the most worthless young men in Great Britain to be her husband might then have rested in its proper place. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
整理:莱缪尔