Prevail

(verb.) use persuasion successfully; 'He prevailed upon her to visit his parents'.

(verb.) prove superior; 'The champion prevailed, though it was a hard fight'.

(verb.) continue to exist; 'These stories die hard'; 'The legend of Elvis endures'.

(verb.) be valid, applicable, or true; 'This theory still holds'.

戴维斯整理

• Nay, he replied, 'suppose' is not the word--I know it; but you will be found out, and by sheer force of argument you will never prevail. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I really cannot prevail upon myself to carry this shocking disclosure any farther. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Will you return with me and try to prevail with him? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It was naturally to be expected, therefore, that folly, negligence, and profusion, should prevail in the whole management of their affairs. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He is a curious, interesting, and nearly perished link between obsolete forms of life and those which generally prevail. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• When Galton questioned persons whom he met in general society he found an entirely different disposition to prevail. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• A common interest, it was anticipated, would produce a more than common union of all the powers; yet great is truth, and it will prevail! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Still, the same quiet life went on at the little cottage, and the same cheerful serenity prevailed among its inmates. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• By dint of alternate threats, promises, and bribes, the lady in question was ultimately prevailed upon to undertake the commission. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Some fanatics among them, to be sure, held that one book, the Koran, was of itself sufficient to insure the well-being of the whole human race, but happily a more enlightened view prevailed. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• She ultimately prevailed; and all-conquering Fife was expected with rapture. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Here Johnston made a stand until the 17th, when Sherman's old tactics prevailed again and the final movement toward Atlanta began. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• For a time one of these peoples, the Khitan, prevailed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Evans' System Prevailed for Three Quarters of a Century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The spirit of party prevails less in Scotland than in England. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The usual corporation spirit, wherever the law does not restrain it, prevails in all regulated companies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• A certain festive cheerfulness prevails. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The interest in both is of the very same kind: It is general, avowed, and prevails in all times and places. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• But nothing so simply true as that prevails in politics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Such is the state of affairs which prevails among them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious association. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• One now prevailing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I grant that in the rigid political conditions prevailing to-day a new issue is an embarrassment, perhaps a hindrance to the procedure of political life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Vice in our cities is a form of the sexual impulse--one of the forms it has taken under prevailing social conditions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But his prevailing occupation was splendour. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This exhibited merely the prevailing price of gold; but as its quotations changed from instant to instant, it was in a most literal sense the cynosure of neighboring eyes. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

校对:谢尔曼