Prevailing
[prɪ'veɪlɪŋ] or [pri'velɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Effectual, dominant, predominant, efficacious, preponderating.[2]. Received (at the present time), current, established, ordinary, usual, PREVALENT, widely extended, most general.
編輯:诺拉
同義詞及反義詞：
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/造句/用法:
- 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. 世紀發明.
- One now prevailing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Vice in our cities is a form of the sexual impulse--one of the forms it has taken under prevailing social conditions. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But his prevailing occupation was splendour. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Our prevailing habit is to think about phrases, ideals, theories, not about the realities they express. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It bowed to the prevailing conscience when it proposed taboos instead of radical changes. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- His judges sat upon the Bench in feathered hats; but the rough red cap and tricoloured cockade was the head-dress otherwise prevailing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Their prevailing tints are gray and brown, approaching to red. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- This fixation has brought down upon the socialists a torrent of abuse in which atheism and materialism are prevailing epithets. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The Sol skilfully carries a vein of the prevailing interest through the Harmonic nights. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The armored cruiser was the particular development of the antagonistic views prevailing among naval architects. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- All over the world the close of the sixteenth century saw monarchy prevailing and tending towards absolutism. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Sir Thomas Liverseege had fallen a victim to the prevailing fever at Swampton. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- This view was so contrary to prevailing beliefs that Copernicus refused to publish his theory for th irty-six years. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- 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. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
整理:莱缪尔