There are two prevailing theoretical ideas about beauty.

关于美，有两种流行理论观点。

They positioned windows to draw on prevailing breezes and dotted clever features like transom windows above interior doors, which could be cranked open to let stuffy air escape while the door stayed shut for privacy.

他们顺应盛行风向规划开窗位置，还在内门上方增设气窗这类精巧设计，房门关闭保证私密性同时，可旋开气窗排出闷浊热气。

DNA betrayed an importance that could only be explained if its role were more central than prevailing thought allowed.

DNA所扮重要角色说明它角色远远被低估了。

Our prevailing mood of despair is irrational.

我们普遍绝望情绪是非理性。

She rejected the prevailing belief that humans should and could control nature.

她反对社会上所流行一种思想，即人类应该也有能力控制自然界。

Moreover, the drugs' performance will reveal whether the prevailing understanding of Alzheimer's is correct.

此外，这些药物效果将揭示人们对阿尔茨海默病普遍理解是否正确。

So the prevailing view these days seems to be that carbohydrate is bad.

所以现在主流观点似乎是碳水化物不好。

First, scientific work tends to focus on some aspect of prevailing knowledge that is viewed as incomplete or incorrect.

科学工作倾向于关注一些流行科学某些方面，而这些方面又是被认为是不完全和不正确。

They represented the prevailing aesthetic closed floor plan, carpet, lots of curtains, visible light fixtures, basically anything that blocked light.

封闭平面布局，地毯，大量窗帘，可见灯具，基本上所有能阻挡光西。

Corner softening sees sharp edges smoothed-off of a structure to make it more aerodynamic, or small cutouts created on the edges of an structure to " scramble" prevailing winds and reduce the strength of the vortices they create.

它是指将建筑尖锐边缘磨平，使其更符空气动力学，或在建筑物边缘开出小口，以 " 扰乱 " 盛行风，减少其产生漩涡强度。

To be sure, this mantra was eventually phased out as Facebook's motto, but it remains very much a prevailing ethos that animates today's tech ecosystem.

后来脸书逐渐淘汰了这句口号，但它仍然激励着现在技术产业。

Big expensive highway infrastructure projects are still the prevailing band-aid to congestion in the US.

在美国，昂贵大型公路基础设施项目仍是解决交通拥堵权宜之计。

During its early years, the College offered a classic academic course based on the English university model, but consistent with the prevailing Puritan philosophy of the first colonists in New England.

早期哈佛学院按照英国大学模式开设了古典学术课程，但这些课程仍都保持与新英格兰第一批殖民者清教哲学一致。

Now I know that whenever we go that route it ends up a little controversial in the comments – it contradicts the prevailing internet opinion of using day-old-rice… but I promise it's legit and used by restaurants in southwest China.

我知道每当用这种方法时，总会有些争议，这与网上普遍“使用隔夜饭”观点相矛盾… … 但我保证这是法，也是中国西南部餐馆所用方法。

For a long time, the prevailing belief in the scientific community was that you were born with all the neurons you were ever going to get.

在很长一段时间里，科学界普遍看法是，你生来就拥有你将获得所有神经元。

From there, it continued in a westerly direction, taking advantage of prevailing winds.

从那里开始，飞机利用盛行风继续向西飞行。

Because we know from the float what the prevailing weather conditions will be in certain parts of the ocean, we can advise the Navy on search and rescue missions.

因为我们从漂浮物可以得知海洋某一地区主要天气条件，我们可以在搜查、营救任务中向海军提出建议。

First of all, they may have come to this planet of ours thousands or millions of years ago, and found our then prevailing primitive state completely uninteresting to their own advanced knowledge.

首先，他们可能在几千年前或几百年前已来过我们地球，并且发现我们地球汉时普遍存在着原始状态同他们先进知识相比是索然无味。

One trenchant backbench critic acknowledges that many Tory MPs “usually follow the prevailing pattern”.

一位后座议员兼批评家一针见血地指出, 许多托利党议员“一般都会遵循眼下流行观点”。

What precise offence they believe themselves to have committed shifts according to events in their lives and the prevailing public mood: in a religious age, they may feel they have done something wrong in the eyes of god.

根据他们生活中事件和当时大家情绪，他们会认为自己犯了什么确切罪行：在宗教时代，他们可能会觉得自己在上帝眼中做错了什么。