Prevalent
['prev(ə)l(ə)nt] or ['prɛvələnt]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious.
(a.) Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease.
校對:卢埃林
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Superior, victorious, predominant, successful.[2]. Powerful, efficacious, effectual.[3]. Received (generally), established, current, ordinary, usual, PREVAILING, widely extended, most general.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Redwood lumber, being light in weight and singularly free from many of the defects so prevalent in other wood, is extremely easy to work. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Besides Mr. Bounderby's gold spoon which was generally received in Coketown, another prevalent fiction was very popular there. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Too much heat is more prevalent than too little. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Ideas of worldly rule by the Church were already prevalent in the fourth century. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was prevalent everywhere. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The knowledge that drunkenness or insanity has been prevalent in a family may be the best safeguard against their recurrence in a future generation. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- But colds were never so prevalent as they have been this autumn. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- But upon the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea winds are more prevalent, seas run higher, the shore is often a danger rather than a refuge. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He condemned, for instance, the prevalent belief in the transmigration of souls. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I need not say how rejoiced I shall be to hear there has been any mistake, but the report is so prevalent that I confess I cannot help trembling. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- There was a prevalent delusion in France that England was a land of liberty. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We give the prevalent view. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Oxen tread the wheat from the ear, after the fashion prevalent in the time of Methuselah. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The prevalent lie is to explain how the new convert, standing upon a mountain of facts, began to trace out the highways that led from hell to heaven. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In the second place, he opposed the prevalent feeling, because with many capacities of being otherwise, he was an ill-conditioned man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Catarrh is a very prevalent disease in America, and consequently numerous catarrh remedies have been devised, most of which contain in a disguised form the pernicious drug, cocaine. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- They were certainly already mingling in Central Asia with Mongolian tribes, but the Mongolian tribes were not then prevalent there. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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