| 词组 | prevail |
| 释义 | prevail Prevail is most often used with upon when it means "to use persuasion successfully": • Knowing me to be under a promise that naught can prevail upon me to break —Rafael Sabatini, Saint Martin's Summer, 1924 • ... Harney prevailed upon the men in the sloop to sail up the river again —Marjory Stoneman Douglas, The Everglades: River of Grass, 1947 • ... the McCarthy advisers had been successful in prevailing upon the candidate —David Halberstam, Harper's, December 1968 Less frequently we find it with on: • ... could Wickham be prevailed on to marry his daughter —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813 • ... the Mayor of Winsted ... prevailed on Army engineers to spend a quarter of a million dollars — John Hersey, New Yorker, 17 Sept. 1955 This sense of prevail is also used sometimes with with: • ... 'I don't at all fear of prevailing with the young lady, if once I get her to the room.' —Fanny Burney, Evelina, 1778 • ... they must also formulate policy and try to make it prevail with Congress —John McDonald, Fortune, July 1954 In its other senses, prevail is found quite often with over and against: • ... the rush of pity which always prevailed over every other sensation —Edith Wharton, The Old Maid, 1924 • ... no matter how many troublesome Montgomerys there may be on his team, in the end he will prevail over them —MaxAscoli, The Reporter, 12 Jan. 1956 • Society may require that the squatter shall prevail over the swagman —William Power, Yale Rev., Summer 1954 • Not until the slain father returns from heaven ... in the form of his own statue, does he prevail against his slayer —George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903 • ... newly worked out moral truths can prevail against habit and prejudice —Robert M. Hutchins, Center Mag., January 1968 |
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