翻译例句:
But do you think she would be prevailed on to go back with us?
不过,你看我们能不能劝她到我们那里去稍住一阵?
be prevailed on: 被劝服
prevail:v.
1. 流行,盛行
【例】
Making resolution on new year's day is a custom that still prevails.
在新年这一天下决心是一个依然流行的习俗.
prevail price: 现行价格= current price
2. 获胜;占优势,占上风
prevail over: 占优
【例】
Political and personal ambitions are starting to prevail over economic interests.
政治抱负和个人野心开始压倒经济利益。
3. 劝说
prevail upon to do, prevail on to do
【例】
Do you think she could be prevailed upon to do those things?
你觉得有可能说服她去做那些事情吗?
【派生词】prevailing: adj. 盛行的,主要的
【例】
Then, for about a year, the Agency simply credited the accounts with interest payments at the prevailing bank rate.
然后有大约一年的时间,中情局自己按当时的现行银行利率向这些帐户支付。
常用的短语有:
prevailing wind 主风;恒风;盛行风
prevailing circumstances 当时环境
prevailing rate 市价;现行汇率
prevailing market price 现行市价
prevailing party 胜诉的一方