托福写作：写作时必备抽象词（17）

会计考友 · 发表于 2012-8-14 23:46:10

Prevail
用法：①If a proposal, principle ,or opinion prevails , it gains influence or is accepted, often after a struggle or argument.
例句：After the 1870’ s, a number of important authors began to reject the romanticism that had prevailed immediately following the Civil War of 1861-1865 and turned instead to realism. (2001-08)
②If a situation , attitude, or custom prevails in a particular place at a particular time, it is normal or most common in that place at that time.
例句：This attitude prevailed even as the number of urban dwellers increased and cities became an essential feature of the national landscape. Gradually, economic reality overcame ideology.(1998-10)
③If one side in a battle, contest, or dispute prevails , it wins.
④If you prevail upon someone to do something, you succeed in persuading them to do it.

Presume
用法：①If you presume that something is the case, you think that it is the case, although you are not certain.
②If you say that someone presume to do something, you mean that they do it even though they have no right to do it.
③If an idea, theory, or plan presumes certain facts, it regards them as true so that they can be used as a basis for further ideas and theories.

Proclaim
用法：①If people proclaim something, they formally make it known to the public.=declare
例句：Advocates of organic foods – a term whose meaning varies greatly – frequently proclaim that such products are safer and more nutritious than others.（1995-08）
②If you proclaim something, you state it in an emphatic way.
例句：Their distrust was caused, in part, by a national ideology that proclaimed farming the greatest occupation and rural living superior to urban living.（1998-10）

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[托福写作] 托福写作：写作时必备抽象词（17）