prevalent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 普遍的, 流行的，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：
-- "For," said he, "cannibalism was long prevalent among the ancestors of the most civilized people, and especially (if the Major will not think me personal) among the Scotch."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was prevalent everywhere.
-- On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly a deject-ed disposition to give up, and wither away.
-- The idea was so acceptable in the prevalent absence of any idea, that the crowd caught it up with eagerness, and loudly repeating the suggestion to have 'em out, and to pull 'em out, mobbed the two vehicles so closely that they came to a stop.
-- A suspended interest and a prevalent absence of mind, were perhaps observed by the spies who looked in at the wine-shop, as they looked in at every place, high and low, from the kings palace to the criminal's gaol.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It shows that at last a reasonable and steady view of the matter is becoming prevalent among us."
-- It was the prevalent conviction, and of all other explanations Levin had unconsciously, not knowing when or how, chosen it, as anyway the clearest, and made it his own.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the prevalent opinion, however, that they had been influenced by veneration for the ancient treaty, that had once made them dependent on the Six Nations for military protection, and now rendered them reluctant to encounter their former masters.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only circumstance which gave me anynew hope, was my aunt's stopping on the stairs to inquire about asmell of fire that was prevalent there; and Janet's replying that shehad been making tinder down in the kitchen, of my old shirt.
-- I found as prevalent afashion in the form of the penitence, as I had left outside in theforms of the coats and waistcoats in the windows of the tailors'shops.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How sorry I am!But colds were never so prevalent as they have been this autumn.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This position is sufficient to account for the silence prevalent in the streets shut in between the dome of the Pantheon and the dome of the Val-de-Grace, two conspicuous public buildings which give a yellowish tone to the landscape and darken the whole district that lies beneath the shadow of their leaden-hued cupolas.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides Mr. Bounderby's gold spoon which was generally received in Coketown, another prevalent fiction was very popular there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gentlemen prisoners, feeling themselves at a disadvantage, had for the most part retired, not to say sneaked, to their rooms; from the open windows of which some of them now complimented the doctor with whistles as he passed below, while others, with several stories between them, interchanged sarcastic references to the prevalent excitement.
-- It was inhabited by poor people, who set up their rest among its faded glories, as Arabs of the desert pitch their tents among the fallen stones of the Pyramids; but there was a family sentimental feeling prevalent in the Yard, that it had a character.
-- In the second place, he opposed the prevalent feeling, because with many capacities of being otherwise, he was an ill-conditioned man.
-- Of whom Mr Pancks had taken the prevalent disease, he could no more have told than if he had unconsciously taken a fever.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle.
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