prevailing通常被翻译为‘占优势的、盛行的’的意思，作为名词时有’优势的’的意思，读音为[pri’veili?]，在英语中以名词出现较多，在《朗文英汉双解大词典》中，共找到75个与prevailing相关的释义和例句。
1.占优势的
例句:Call me irish, but i don’t believe in cooler heads prevailing
翻译:算我冲动，我不信他们会冷静。
来源：英汉新词词典
2.盛行的
例句:i’m very worried today about this notion, this world, this prevailing kind of force of security.
翻译:如今让我感到忧虑的是在这个世界上 有一种强大的，类似于强制力的“安全”概念。
来源：实用全新英汉双解大词典
3.优势的
例句:The purpose of journalism is to question the prevailing wisdom…
翻译:新闻的目的是 质疑当时的智慧…。
来源：新英汉汉英词典
4.主要的、优势的
例句:Unfortunately, that was the prevailing view among his fellow scientists.
翻译:不幸的是，这就是当时的流行观点 Unfortunately, that was the prevailing view 与他同时代的科学家们认为 among his fellow scientists.。
来源：英国翻译词典
prevailing一般作为名词使用，如在practices prevailing(习惯做法)、the prevailing fashion([网络] 盛行的时装；流行时装)、prevailing cirtances(当时环境)等常见短语中出现较多。
practices prevailing习惯做法the prevailing fashion[网络] 盛行的时装；流行时装prevailing cirtances当时环境prevailing climax优势顶极prevailing condition当时条件prevailing current(海)盛行流1. The purpose of journalism is to question the prevailing wisdom…
翻译:新闻的目的是 质疑当时的智慧…。
2. Unfortunately, that was the prevailing view among his fellow scientists.
翻译:不幸的是，这就是当时的流行观点 Unfortunately, that was the prevailing view 与他同时代的科学家们认为 among his fellow scientists.。
3. And the rational thing for a layman to do is to take seriously the prevailing scientific theory.
翻译:严肃对待权威的科学理论。而根据这一理论。
4. in October of 1903, the prevailing opinion of expert aerodynamicists was that maybe in 10 million years we could build an aircraft that would fly.
翻译:xx年xx月， 动力学专家 普遍认为， 一千万年以后 人类才能造出能飞的飞机。
5. The pregnant woman’s diet and stress level in particular provide important clues to prevailing conditions like a finger lifted to the wind.
翻译:孕妇的食物和压力水平 就象标杆一样给出了 她所处环境的线索。
6. For hundreds of years, the prevailing orthodoxy, the accepted truth, was that God the Father, the Creator, is unchanging and therefore by definition cannot feel pain or sadness.
翻译:数百年来，盛行的正统和公认的真理是： 作为天父和造物主，上帝是永恒不变的， 因此根据定义，上帝是感觉不到痛苦或悲伤的。
7. Now, as you may know, the prevailing rate for this sort of thing is $10,000.
翻译:既然你知道了 这种事的行情是 Now, as you may know, the prevailing rate for this sort of thing… 一万元 …is $10,000.。
8. i blow with the wind and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy.
翻译:我看见转舵，目前的风向 正巧从维其(亲德)吹来。
9. The prevailing wisdom was that on the largest of scales the universe was static.
翻译:普遍的观点是在最大的尺度下 宇宙是静态的。
10. The Anti-Hippocratic Society has always placed itself above the laws and prevailing morality of their peers.
翻译:联盟好像高不可攀 凌驾法律，道德，一切。
11. The prevailing winds are blowing the fallout from east to north.
翻译:风从东边向北边吹。
12. But there was one piece of evidence that convinced Wegener that the prevailing scientific view must be wrong… the Earth itself.
翻译:但是有一个证据使得魏格纳相信 But there was one piece of evidence that convinced Wegener 这个主流的科学观点肯定错了 that the prevailing scientific view must be wrong… 证据就是地球本身 the Earth itself.。
13. The prevailing theory is that this is the hieroglyphic symbol for horrors, but the upper slant is slightly different.
翻译:现在主要的观点是: 这是一个象形符号 代表了恐惧 但是上面的斜向有点不一样。
14. The prevailing French theory is that it’s all a myth anyways.
翻译:普遍法式理论认为 那只是个神话而已。
15. Mind you aren’t influenced by the prevailing culture Bolshevism.
翻译:你得留神可别让 当今在科尔非斯东丹 猖獗一时的布尔什维克文化 把你也没落了。
prevailing作为名词的时候，其近义词以及反义词有0、prevail/1、i等。
