prevailing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 占上风的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, the vicinity of the Atlantic, and the prevailing west wind, made the climate of this district particularly damp.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made out his prevailing qualities directly: self-confidence because his head was well set on his shoulders, and his black eyes looked around with cold assurance; calmness for his skin, rather pale, showed his coolness of blood; energy evinced by the rapid contraction of his lofty brows; and courage because his deep breathing denoted great power of lungs.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And we all, including the rustic youth, drew round the table: an austere silence prevailing while we discussed our meal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Reddening the snowy streets with the prevailing Republican colour, in winding and tramping through them, as they had red-dened them below the snow with a deeper dye, they carried him thus into the courtyard of the building where he lived.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With all these personal advantages (to which may be added a strong savour of tobacco-smoke, and a prevailing greasiness of appearance) Mr Swiveller leant back in his chair with his eyes fixed on the ceiling, and occasionally pitching his voice to the needful key, obliged the company with a few bars of an intensely dismal air, and then, in the middle of a note, relapsed into his former silence.
-- Sometimes walking for a mile or two while her grandfather rode inside, and sometimes even prevailing upon the schoolmaster to take her place and lie down to rest, Nell travelled on very happily until they came to a large town, where the waggon stopped, and where they spent a night.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff set the price, and though much lower than the prevailing price, the peasants began to bargain, finding it high.
-- lower than the one prevailing in the district, and Nekhludoff's income was reduced to almost one-half, but, with money realized from the sale of the timber and yet to be realized from the sale of the stock, it was amply sufficient for him.
-- His sadness increased as the lawyer related with so much pleasure the frightful stories of the prevailing wickedness.
-- The cynicism prevailing among the convicts and their overseers was such that every woman, especially the young women, had to be on the alert.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dulness is their prevailing ingredient, and the whole point consists in mispronouncing a word or a gesture.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the occasional leap of a fish, or dip of an oar, or twittering of a bird not yet at roost, or distant barking of a dog, or lowing of a cow in all such sounds, there was the prevailing breath of rest, which seemed to encompass him in every scent that sweetened the fragrant air.
-- Notwithstanding that its walls were blotched, as if missionary maps were bursting out of them to impart geographical knowledge; notwithstanding that its weird furniture was forlornly faded and musty, and that the prevailing Venetian odour of bilge water and an ebb tide on a weedy shore was very strong; the place was better within, than it promised.
-- She continued to look at him; and if, when he entered the house, he had had any latent hope of prevailing in the least with her, she now looked it out of his heart.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though the long period of a Southern whaling voyage (by far the longest of all voyages now or ever made by man), the peculiar perils of it, and the community of interest prevailing among a company, all of whom, high or low, depend for their profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their common luck, together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and hard work; though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a less rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never mind how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some primitive instances, live together; for all that, the punctilious externals, at least, of the quarter-deck are seldom materially relaxed, and in no instance done away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dressed with the utmost nicety and precision, in a quaint mixture of by-gone costume, with some slight concessions to the prevailing taste, which rather served to point the old style pleasantly than to impair its effect, she sat, in a stately manner, with her hands folded on the table before her.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anxiety on Jane's behalf was another prevailing concern; and Mr. Darcy's explanation, by restoring Bingley to all her former good opinion, heightened the sense of what Jane had lost.
-- The satisfaction of prevailing on one of the most worth-less young men in Great Britain to be her husband might then have rested in its proper place.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, at last, after many secret disputes with myself, and after great perplexities about it (for all these arguments, one way and another, struggled in my head a long time), the eager prevailing desire of deliverance at length mastered all the rest; and I resolved, if possible, to get one of these savag-es into my hands, cost what it would.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sir John was delighted; for to a man, whose prevailing anxiety was the dread of being alone, the acquisition of two, to the number of inhabitants in London, was something.
-- Lodging as I did in Bond Street, there was hardly a day in which I did not catch a glimpse of one or other of you; and nothing but the most constant watchfulness on my side, a most invariably prevailing desire to keep out of your sight, could have separated us so long.
-- YOUR sense of honour and honesty would have led you, I know, when aware of your situation, to attempt all the economy that would appear to you possible: and, perhaps, as long as your frugality retrenched only on your own comfort, you might have been suffered to practice it, but beyond that and how little could the utmost of your single management do to stop the ruin which had begun before your marriage? Beyond THAT, had you endeavoured, however reasonably, to abridge HIS enjoyments, is it not to be feared, that instead of prevailing on feelings so selfish to consent to it, you would have lessened your own influence on his heart, and made him regret the connection which had involved him in such difficulties?"
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