power
美 [?pa??r]
英 [?pa??(r)] 
- n.權力;力量;動力;能力
- v.推動(機器或車輛);快速前進
- 網絡功率;電源;電源開關
詞形變化
復數:powers 現在分詞:powering 過去式:powered 反義詞
同義詞
英漢雙解
操縱control
1. | [u] 控制力;影響力;操縱力the ability to control people or things |
| The aim is to give people more power over their own lives. 目的是讓人們更能主宰自己的生活。 |
| He has the power to make things very unpleasant for us. 他掌握著我們的命運,可以把我們搞得狼狽不堪。 |
| to have sb in your power(= to be able to do what you like with sb) 能支配某人 |
2. | [u] 統治;政權political control of a country or an area |
| to take/seize/lose power 掌握╱奪取╱失掉政權 |
| The present regime has been in power for two years. 現政權已經執政兩年了。 |
| The party came to power at the last election. 這個政黨是在上次大選中當選執政的。 |
| They are hoping to return to power. 他們希望重掌政權。 |
| a power struggle between rival factions within the party 黨內對立派別之間的權力斗爭 |
能力ability
3. | [u] 能力;機會the ability or opportunity to do sth |
| It is not within my power(= I am unable or not in a position) to help you. 我是愛莫能助啊。 |
| I will do everything in my power to help you. 我將盡全力幫助你。 |
4. | [u] (身體、心智的)某種能力a particular ability of the body or mind |
| He had lost the power of speech. 他喪失了語言能力。 |
| The drug may affect your powers of concentration. 這種藥可能會影響你的注意力集中。 |
| He had to use all his powers of persuasion. 他只好使出說服人的全部本領。 |
5. | [pl] (全部)體力,智力all the abilities of a person's body or mind |
| At 26, he is at the height of his powers and ranked fourth in the world. 26 歲時,他處于巔峰狀態,排名世界第四。 |
權威authority
6. | [u][c][usupl] 權力;職權;權勢the right or authority of a person or group to do sth |
| The Secretary of State has the power to approve the proposals. 國務卿有權批準這些提案。 |
| The powers of the police must be clearly defined. 警察的職權必須明確界定。 |
| The president has the power of veto over all new legislation. 總統有權否決一切新法規。 |
國家country
7. | [c] 有影響力的大國;軍事強國a country with a lot of influence in world affairs, or with great military strength |
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| an allied/enemy power 同盟國;敵對國 |
影響influence
8. | [u] 某方面的力量(或影響);實力strength or influence in a particular area of activity |
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| air/sea power(= military strength in the air/ at sea) 空中╱海上軍事力量 |
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9. | [u] (某事物或社會集團的)影響力,勢力the influence of a particular thing or group within society |
| the power of the media 媒體的影響力 |
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能量energy
10. | [u] 力;力量;能量the strength or energy contained in sth |
| The ship was helpless against the power of the storm. 那艘船只能任憑強大的暴風雨肆虐。 |
| It was a performance of great power. 那是巨大能量的作用。 |
11. | [u] (身體的)力量;體力physical strength used in action; physical strength that sb possesses and might use |
| He hit the ball with as much power as he could. 他用盡全力擊球。 |
| the sheer physical power of the man 那個男人驚人的體力 |
12. | [u] 能;能量;動力energy that can be collected and used to operate a machine, to make electricity, etc. |
| nuclear/wind/solar power 核能;風能;太陽能 |
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電electricity
13. | [u] 電力供應the public supply of electricity |
| They've switched off the power. 他們關掉了電源。 |
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數學mathematics
14. | [c][ususing] 乘方;冪the number of times that an amount is to be multiplied by itself |
| 4 to the power of 3 is 4³ (= 4 × 4 × 4 = 64). 4 的 3 次方是 4³。 |
透鏡of lens
15. | [u] 放大倍數;放大率the amount by which a lens can make objects appear larger |
| the power of a microscope/telescope 顯微鏡╱望遠鏡的放大率 |
善良的╱邪惡的精靈good/evil spirit
16. | [c] 正義(或邪惡)力量a good or evil spirit that controls the lives of others |
| the powers of darkness(= the forces of evil) 黑暗勢力 |
提供動力supply energy
1. | [t][usupass] ~ sth 驅動,推動(機器或車輛)to supply a machine or vehicle with the energy that makes it work |
| The aircraft is powered by a jet engine. 這架飛機由噴氣發動機驅動。 |
快速移動move quickly
2. | [i][t] (使)迅猛移動,快速前進to move or move sth very quickly and with great power in a particular direction |
| He powered through the water. 他在水中迅速游動。 |
| She powered her way into the lead. 她迅速用力沖到最前面。 |
| He powered his header past the goalie. 他用力把球頂過了守門員。 |
習慣用語
do sb a power of good
對身心大為有益to be very good for sb's physical or mental health
more power to sbs elbow
(表示支持或鼓勵)再加把勁,加油,祝…成功used to express support or encouragement for sb to do sth
the (real) power behind the throne
太上皇;幕后操縱者the person who really controls an organization, a country, etc. in contrast to the person who is legally in charge
the powers that be
當權派;權力集團the people who control an organization, a country, etc.
英漢解釋
n. | 1. 【機】動力,機力;簡單的機械;電力;電(能)源;功率;率;能量;生產率 2. 力,力量;能力;體力,精力;(生理)機能;才能 |
v. | 1. 〈美〉給...裝發動機,賦與...以動力;用動力發動 |
英英解釋
例句
Sexual harassment is often a display of power aimed at intimidating and degrading the harassed person.
性騷擾也是炫耀旨在恐嚇和羞辱被侵犯人的能力。
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
除非你想用它來做大事,否則有多少回報或有多大的力量都沒有什么意義。
The speed, power, and ammo of the Orca also makes it a prime choice for taking out husks.
奧卡的速度,火力和彈藥使它成為清除外殼的最佳選擇。
In such a situation, it would be easy for the mine to exploit the power station by suddenly jacking up the price of coal.
在這種情況下,煤礦很容易通過突然推高煤價而剝削發電站。
Even Spain, with its new Anglo-Saxon business culture, tried to stop a German utility from taking over a Spanish power company.
甚至西班牙在新盎格魯薩克森商業文化影響下,也阻止德國公用事業公司插手西班牙電力企業。
Yet Markus Willeke has found a way of investing watercolour painting with a new task, up-to-date relevance and astounding power.
然而馬克斯·威勒克已經找到致力于水彩畫的方式,那就是新任務、不斷更新的相關性和驚人的力量。
All sports coaches believe passionately in the power of the team to lift performance not by just a little, but by 100%.
所有體育教練都滿懷激情地認為集體的力量有助于提高成績,不是提高一點點,而是100%地提高。
However, the Java language's power is often most evident when you use a little creativity in your API and programming choices.
但是,當稍微創造性地選擇API和編程方式時,Java語言的強大之處常常最明顯。
With 1. 3 billion people like this, able to grind out the toughest and most grim situations, no wonder they will be the next super power.
13億人同樣如此,能機械地堅韌近乎冷酷地面對這種情況,所以無怪乎他們是一個超級大國。
Power said it was unclear whether the commission could end the duties on its own, or if EU governments would be able to weigh in.
電力說,還不清楚該委員會是否能夠結束職責依靠自己的力量,或者如果歐盟各國政府能夠衡量。
But no matter how much a parent intervenes, siblings have a unique power over each other.
不過無論家長們多么努力介入,兄弟姐妹之間總存在著一種相互影響的獨特力量。
President Andrew Jackson understood the power of the Bank of the United States. He opposed giving the bank a new charter.
安德魯杰克遜總統了解美國銀行的權利,他反對給銀行一個新的章程。
Writing, for the speaker, is the knock on the door of misery, and of course this again returns to the theme of maternity-witch power.
寫作,對于說話人來說,就是敲苦難的房門,這當然又要回到母性-巫婆力量。
Despite the power of wind, water and fire, the garden appears as a metaphor of the weakness and vulnerability of the city and the culture.
盡管有風、水、火的力量,但公園仍顯得虛弱和不堪一擊,而這正象征了城市和文化。
In a recent paper, he tries to assess whether Germany is doing enough to live up to its self-image of being "a power of peace" .
在最近的一份報紙上,他試圖評價,為了配得上其自我定位的“和平力量”形象,德國的作為是否足夠。
Sir Thomas heard with some surprise that it would be totally out of Mrs. Norris's power to take any share in the personal charge of her.
諾里斯太太回答說,她絲毫沒有能力跟著一起照料那孩子,伯特倫爵士聽了頗為驚訝。
Man is his own master, but he tends to give his power away to outside authorities who claim to know the truth and to want the best for you.
人類是自己的主人,但他傾向于放棄自己的力量,而求助于外界的權威——那些聲稱了解真相并對你有好處的人。
He even wondered if it might be possible to make computers for the poor in countries without an electric power grid.
他甚至想知道有沒有可能為那些不通電的國家的窮人制造計算機。
His long absence and speculation over his health have led to calls for him to hand over power to his vice-president.
他的長期不在和對他健康的猜測要求他移交總統權利給副總統。
Certainly, nuclear power and weapons, if it comes to that, would be a matter of national pride.
如果就這點而言,核能力和武器會是一個關系到民族自豪感的問題。
The combining power of one element in the compound must be equal to the combining power of the other element.
化合物中一種元素的化合價必須等于另一元素的化合價。
She was smothered by his despotic power.
她被他的淫威鎮住了。
Power densities that can be tolerated by a gage are strongly related to the specimen which serves as the heat sink.
應變片所能允許的電能密度與起著散熱器作用的試件密切相關。
The only thing in life he wanted was power behind the scenes, and Doenitz might still offer him this.
他一生中唯一想要的是幕后的權力,也許鄧尼茨會給他這種權力。
Germany in particular used her air power to commit such experimental horrors as the bombing of the defenceless little township of Guernica.
尤其是德國,它用空軍轟炸不設防的小城鎮格爾尼卡,進行試驗性的恐怖空襲。
Men, in the desire to increase their individual power and to satisfy their passions, will necessarily clash.
因為人們都欲求增加個體的力量,滿足自己的激情,所以人們之間必然發生傾軋。
The light power of the composite system is equal to the ratio of the two single light power's.
組合系統的光力則為兩個單個光力之比。
A vast industry scattered through a number of states is dependent on expenditures for air power.
散布在許多州的廣大工業部門都得依靠空軍的經費來維持生產。
The United States knows that peaceful power from atomic energy is no dream of the future.
美國知道原子能產生的和平力量不是未來的夢想。
There was little challenge to the notion that the commercialization of nuclear power deserved a high priority.
很少有人對“核電商業化理應列為重點”的看法提出異議。
One of them was the emergence of the United States during this period as the dominant industrial power in the world.
有一點是美國在此期間涌現為世界上占支配地位的工業國。
It is not satisfactory from a dimensional standpoint, since the power to which we raise e must be dimensionless.
從量綱的觀點來看,它是不能令人滿意的,因為e的冪必須是無量綱的。
Economic and social circumstances continued to weaken its power to influence events, and yet it remained a player in the game.
經濟和社會狀況繼續削弱著它影響事態發展的能力。它仍然是勾心斗角的角逐中的一方。
He played the game of power politics as if he were a divine right monarch, but he played it well and for the peace of the world.
他象一個神權君主似的玩弄強權政治游戲,不過玩得很好,而且是為了世界和平。
For one so young there was a rather strange power in him of seeing things in some sort of proportion.
年紀盡管這樣輕,他卻有一種權衡事情輕重的異常能力。
I had a weight of guilt upon me enough to sink any creature who had the least power of reflection left.
我有一個罪惡的重擔壓在身上,但凡有點反省能力的人都會給這重擔壓倒下去。
Oughtn't he have told me of it to have given me the power of clearing myself?
難道他不應該把這先告訴我,使我可以澄清事實嗎?
His vices were no barrier to Hitler's collaboration with him along the hard and dangerous part to power.
他的劣行并不妨礙希特勒和他在奪取政權這條艱苦而危險的道路上互相合作。
Sometimes I thought she was in the power of some man. But I should not really believe it.
有時候我認為她受某個男人的擺布,然而我真不信竟會如此。
Here we see the swiftly drawn portrait of a woman of energy, power and judgment, as well as emotion.
這里我們看到了一幅生氣勃勃,多才善斷,感情充沛的婦女速寫畫。
As he had maintained his power without becoming unpopular, it may be presumed that he had exercised some wisdom.
由于他維持了自己的權力,又沒有變得不受人歡迎,我們可以認為,他是運用了相當的智慧的。
Nature had already gifted me with the love of pleasure, and the desire of gain and power.
我生來就追求享樂和權勢,唯利是圖。
There was something sinister about the power of that man.
這個人的本質可真有點令人發瘆。
It was imperative in his mind that he should be sure he had the power to move her.
他內心里堅信,他有能力感動她,這是理所當然的。
In his striving for wealth, power, or sexual satisfaction, he reverts to his true animal nature, and the facade of civilization falls away.
在為財富、權力和性的滿足奮斗時,人恢復了他真正的動物本性,文明的外觀煙消云散。
His accession to power was sudden, and occurred at a difficult, critical period in the company's history.
他執掌大權這事來得突然,發生在公司歷史上一個艱苦、關鍵的階段。
The development of nuclear power would surge forward, beginning to fill the void that would be left by oil.
核電工業將會迅速發展以彌補石油的空缺。
Dismissing faith in the confused creeds of the heathen world, he reposed the greatest faith in the power of human wisdom.
他不相信異教徒信奉的種種雜亂無章的教義,卻特別相信人類智慧的力量。
"The men of wealth and power in poor nations, " the President continued, "must lead the fight for those basic reforms. "
總統繼續說到,“窮國中有財有勢的人必須領導這些基本改革的斗爭。”
The movement of eyes, which without being in the least theatrical, struck him as highly trained and full of conscious power.
她眼睛的轉動,絲毫不做作,給他一種受過高級訓練和充滿內在力量的深刻印象。
Agility also provides Attack Power, and Crit, however, not enough to make it better than Attack Power for the BM Hunter.
敏捷還提供了攻擊力,并擊,但仍不足以使其攻擊強度比為骨髓獵人。
Love we must have the other salt, she gives us the infinite power of our physical and mental state of excitement at the moment.
愛情是我們必需的另一種鹽,她給我們帶來無窮的力量,使我們的身心時刻處于亢奮狀態。
And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?
看哪,這不過是上帝工作的些微;我們所聽于他的是何等細微的聲音!他大能的雷聲誰能明透呢?
For one so young there was a rather strange power in him of seeing things in some sort of proportion.
年紀盡管這樣輕,他卻有一種權衡事情輕重的異常能力。
Having lost engine power, the boat's crew found themselves at the mercy of the wind.
在失去引擎動力之后,船員們發現自己只能任憑風力擺布了。
And that incident right there was enough to let me in on the potent power that scary quotes from horror movies hold over you.
這件事讓我有足夠的勇氣將恐怖片中的恐怖臺詞對你們和盤托出。
If Congress isn't ready to take that step, it could at least give USDA the power to act and the FDA the funding it needs to do its job.
如果國會不準備作出行動,那么它應該至少授權美國農業部,給食品及藥物管理局撥款,讓它們來行使該行使的職能。
I was raised to believe he devil's got some crazy power, but I don't think shining him on this wall is gonna bring it down.
我從小就認為這些惡魔有著瘋狂的力量,但我認為把它投影到墻上不會把墻放倒。
Drain the girl, drain her power until there is nothing but a vacant shell.
吸干這女孩的能量,直到她徹底變成一具軀殼。
He said: "Li Zhongren was really someone. He was the acting president after then president had fallen out of power. "
他說,李宗仁可是個大人物,是國民黨蔣介石下野后的代總統。
The power of a grain of wheat to grow into a plant remains latent if it is not planted.
如果不種植,一顆麥種長成一株植物的力量仍然潛在著。
"China is not close to developing into a global military power, " says Christopher D. Yung of the National Defense University.
美國國防大學(NationalDefenseUniversity)的克里斯托弗?D?揚(ChristopherD.Yung)表示:“中國發展成為世界軍事強國尚需時日。”
He earned fame in his own country through the power of the Hallyu Wave, how can he not know that?
他贏得了聲譽在自己的國家通過力量的韓流波,他怎么能不知道呢?。
US officials say one option that trying to push Gaddafi out of power is to create a no fly zone over Libya.
美國官員稱,迫使卡扎菲下臺的方法之一就是,在利比亞設立禁飛區。
So setting up scientific, reasonable local environment legislative power is one of the preconditions in two-oriented society construction.
而設置科學、合理的地方環境立法權是建立兩型社會的先決條件之一。
The question is how much the state-owned power companies will actually use the pollution control equipment once it is installed.
問題是這些國有企業安裝這些設備將有多少真正投入使用。
To the everyday bus operator, battery electric power would seem to offer few specific advantages over the conventional diesel power.
對于每日營運的公共汽車公司而言,由電瓶提供動力與由一般的柴油機提供動力相比,似乎沒有什么明顯的優勢。
Rather the body has a corpuscular structure, which gives it a power to cause that idea of yellow in me.
而是存在一種微粒結構,促使我形成了一種黃顏色的觀念。
keep him in the dark about the true nature of his power.
讓他蒙在鼓里對自己的真實能力毫不知情。
It has never come close to power in Egypt, but exerts subtle influence through social work and has been a strong force in trade unions.
兄弟會在埃及的地位從未觸及政權,但通過社會工作對埃及產生了微妙的影響,也成了行業聯盟的中堅力量。
In any event, he had the power to name his successor and was determined to use it.
但不管怎樣,他有權提名他的接班人,并決心運用這種權力。
The nature of military technology was such that the balance of power could no longer be thought of as uniform.
軍事技術的性質,使得力量均衡不再被認為是一成不變的。
They extended their power as much by the fear they incited as by the hope they inspired.
他們既利用被他們所激發的希望,也利用被他們所煽動的恐懼心理來擴大自己的勢力。
It went on for nearly thirty years, and wasted all the power of Greece.
它持續了將近三十年,耗盡了希臘的全部力量。
Over the years, this group has become like a sovereign power at Ford unto itself.
多年后,這批人卻成了福特公司的一股獨立勢力。
The government was determined to break the power of the trade unions.
政府決心削弱工會的力量。
It has the power to judge whether acts by corporations or governments are compatible with EEC treaties.
它對公司或政府的行為是否違背共同體條約有權作出決定。
The gradual erosion of our strength and power began in those halcyon years following World War II.
我們的力量是在第二次世界大戰以后太平盛世開始逐漸消失的。
The puzzle appears greater when one recalls the vast accumulation of material power available to the Habsburgs.
回想一下哈布斯堡家族所能積聚和掌握的大量物質力量就更令人困惑費解。
Three hundred dollars is a power of money.
三百塊大洋可真是一筆大錢呀。