Prevalent

(a.) Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force, influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful; victorious.

(a.) Most generally received or current; most widely adopted or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread; prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease.

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• Redwood lumber, being light in weight and singularly free from many of the defects so prevalent in other wood, is extremely easy to work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Besides Mr. Bounderby's gold spoon which was generally received in Coketown, another prevalent fiction was very popular there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Too much heat is more prevalent than too little. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Ideas of worldly rule by the Church were already prevalent in the fourth century. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was prevalent everywhere. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The knowledge that drunkenness or insanity has been prevalent in a family may be the best safeguard against their recurrence in a future generation. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But colds were never so prevalent as they have been this autumn. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• But upon the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea winds are more prevalent, seas run higher, the shore is often a danger rather than a refuge. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He condemned, for instance, the prevalent belief in the transmigration of souls. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I need not say how rejoiced I shall be to hear there has been any mistake, but the report is so prevalent that I confess I cannot help trembling. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• There was a prevalent delusion in France that England was a land of liberty. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We give the prevalent view. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Oxen tread the wheat from the ear, after the fashion prevalent in the time of Methuselah. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The prevalent lie is to explain how the new convert, standing upon a mountain of facts, began to trace out the highways that led from hell to heaven. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In the second place, he opposed the prevalent feeling, because with many capacities of being otherwise, he was an ill-conditioned man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Catarrh is a very prevalent disease in America, and consequently numerous catarrh remedies have been devised, most of which contain in a disguised form the pernicious drug, cocaine. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• They were certainly already mingling in Central Asia with Mongolian tribes, but the Mongolian tribes were not then prevalent there. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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