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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Men-servants poured water over the hands of the guests, while pages filled the mixing-bowls with wine and water, and handed it round after giving every man his drink-of-fering; then, when they had made their offerings, and had drunk each as much as he was minded, the envoys set out from the tent of Agamemnon son of Atreus; and Nestor, looking first to one and then to another, but most especially at Ulysses, was instant with them that they should prevail with the noble son of Peleus.
-- Fool, he might have known that he should not prevail with him, for the man was in no mood for pity or forbearance but was in grim ear-nest.
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：
-- But the children had abandoned their sports for their beds of skins, and the quiet of night was already beginning to prevail over the turbulence and excitement of so busy and important an evening.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No more intermittent fevers prevail in the regions now covered with forests of the myrtaceae.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The single gentleman has been described as explaining their joint intentions, but it should have been written that they all spoke together; that if any one of them by chance held his peace for a moment, he stood gasping and panting for an opportunity to strike in again: in a word, that they had reached that pitch of impatience and anxiety where men can neither be persuaded nor reasoned with; and that it would have been as easy to turn the most impetuous wind that ever blew, as to prevail on them to reconsider their determination.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The foreman insisted that she was guilty of both the poisoning and robbery; the merchant, colonel, clerk and laborer opposed this view, while the others hesitated, but the opinion of the foreman began to predominate, principally because the jury were tired out, and they willingly joined the side which promised to prevail the sooner, and consequently release them quicker.
-- The copy of the petition from their majesty's bureau also did not prevail with the superintendent.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'She got steeped in the shower of yesterday evening, and there she has sat the night through, and I couldn't prevail on her to stir.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is becoming too wise to hearken always to instincts and desires; he is still too weak to always prevail against them.
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