['prevələns]
prevalence
n. 传播,流行,普及

例句与用法:

  1. I'm shocked at the prevalence of bribery among these officials.
    我对这些官员的普遍受贿感到震惊。
  2. They are so surprised by the prevalence of anti-government sentiments.
    他们对普遍存在的反政府情绪感到很吃惊。

英英解释:

名词 prevalence:

  1. the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread
  2. (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population
  3. a superiority in numbers or amount
  4. 同义词:preponderance