prevail是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 流行, 盛行，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Would he,' asked Mr. Lorry, 'be sensibly relieved if he could prevail upon himself to impart that secret brooding to any one, when it is on him?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout shook it, but with no perceptible effect; for neither shaking nor maledictions could prevail upon it to change its mind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not until wehad rung three or four times that we could prevail on Mrs. Cruppto communicate with us, but at last she appeared, being a stoutlady with a flounce of flannel petticoat below a nankeen gown.
-- All kinds of treatment were tried with him- coaxing, scolding,slapping, bringing him to Buckingham Street (where he instantlydashed at the two cats, to the terror of all beholders); but he nevercould prevail upon himself to bear my aunt's society.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He argued like a young man very much bent on dancing; and Emma was rather surprized to see the consti-tution of the Weston prevail so decidedly against the habits of the Churchills.
-- She resolved to prevail on her to spend a day at Hartfield.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The republican institutions of our country have 68 Frankensteinproduced simpler and happier manners than those which prevail in the great monarchies that surround it.
-- Sometimes I could not prevail on myself to enter my laboratory for several days, and at other times I toiled day and night in order to com-plete my work.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But great allowances should be given to a king, who lives wholly secluded from the rest of the world, and must therefore be altogether unacquainted with the manners and customs that most prevail in other nations: the want of which knowledge will ever produce many prejudices, and a certain narrowness of thinking, from which we, and the politer countries of Europe, are wholly exempted.
-- The king would be the most absolute prince in the uni-verse, if he could but prevail on a ministry to join with him; but these having their estates below on the continent, and 213considering that the office of a favourite has a very uncer-tain tenure, would never consent to the enslaving of their country.
-- He said, 'if it were possible there could be any country where Yahoos alone were endued with rea-son, they certainly must be the governing animal; because reason in time will always prevail against brutal strength.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Out of this same airy talk of his, it always soon came to be understood, wherever he and his wife went, that he had married against the wishes of his exalted relations, and had had much ado to prevail on them to countenance her.
-- It was an odd thing, Fanny smilingly observed, for her who could seldom prevail upon herself even to write a letter, to lend to a man of such vast business as Mr Merdle.
-- Bar could not at once return to his inveiglements of the most enlightened and remarkable jury he had ever seen in that box, with whom, he could tell his learned friend, no shallow sophistry would go down, and no unhappily abused professional tact and skill prevail (this was the way he meant to begin with them); so he said he would go too, and would loiter to and fro near the house while his friend was inside.
-- Will you return with me and try to prevail with him?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg cheerfully blackened and burned her white hands cooking delicate messes for 'the dear', while Amy, a loyal slave of the ring, celebrated her return by giving away as many of her treasures as she could prevail on her sisters to accept.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Closing the door upon the landlady, I endeavored to prevail upon Queequeg to take a chair; but in vain.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was teased by Mr. Collins, who continued most persever-ingly by her side, and though he could not prevail on her to dance with him again, put it out of her power to dance with others.
-- When he was gone, they were certain at least of receiving constant information of what was going on, and their uncle promised, at parting, to prevail on Mr. Bennet to return to Longbourn, as soon as he could, to the great consolation of his sister, who considered it as the only security for her husband's not being killed in a duel.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a word, I gave them every part of my own story; and told them I should prevail with the captain to leave them two barrels of gunpowder more, and some garden-seeds, which I told them I would have been very glad of.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After her entrance, Colonel Brandon became more thoughtful and silent than he had been before, and Mrs. Jennings could not prevail on him to stay long.
-- THESE assured him that his exertion had produced an increase of good-will towards himself, and THESE gave Elinor hopes of its being farther augmented hereafter; but Mrs. Jennings, who knew nothing of all this, who knew only that the Colonel continued as grave as ever, and that she could neither prevail on him to make the offer himself, nor commission her to make it for him, began, at the end of two days, to think that, instead of Midsummer, they would not be married till Michaelmas, and by the end of a week that it would not be a match at all.
-- The Willoughbys left town as soon as they were married; and Elinor now hoped, as there could be no danger of her seeing either of them, to prevail on her sister, who had never yet left the house since the blow first fell, to go out again by degrees as she had done before.
-- Nothing should prevail on him to give up his engagement.
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