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单词

prevalent

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ˈprevələnt
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词根

Prevalent 的词根是-lav-,这个词根来源于拉丁文,意为"strong",强大的。基于此词根,常见的衍生词还有:prevalence(普遍,盛行)。

释义

adj. 流行的;普遍的,广传的

例句

This condition is more prevalent in women than in men.
这种情况在女性中比在男性中更为普遍。
Smoking is becoming increasingly prevalent among younger women.
吸烟在年轻女性中正变得越来越盛行。
Despite the fact that the disease is so prevalent, treatment is still far from satisfactory.
尽管事实上这种疾病非常普遍,治疗却远不尽如人意。

强化记忆

你可以将 prevalent 想象成 pre(先于一切的)+ valent(有力量的),这样它的含义“普遍的,广泛的”就容易理解了。Prevalent 在英语中是个中古英语的词,来源于拉丁文 "praevalēre",意为 "be powerful",在18世纪晚期开始被广泛用来形容某事物“普遍存在”。

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But this problem of negative results that go missing in actionis still very prevalent. In fact it's so prevalentthat it cuts to the core of evidence-based medicine.
which is more than we're sleeping, at 7.7 hours.Sitting is so incredibly prevalent,we don't even question how much we're doing it,
This is not unique to Kenya.It's quite prevalent across Africa.Many of our faith-based organizations have tremendous amounts of wealth
And there were two essential explanationsor ideas that were prevalent.And one was punishment.
by a dating partner each year in the US.That makes dating violence more prevalentthan being bullied on school property,
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