power
美 [ˈpaʊər]
英 [ˈpaʊə(r)] 
- n.权力;力量;动力;能力
- v.推动(机器或车辆);快速前进
- 网络功率;电源;电源开关
词形变化
复数:powers 现在分词:powering 过去式:powered 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
操纵control
1. | [u] 控制力;影响力;操纵力the ability to control people or things |
| The aim is to give people more power over their own lives. 目的是让人们更能主宰自己的生活。 |
| He has the power to make things very unpleasant for us. 他掌握着我们的命运,可以把我们搞得狼狈不堪。 |
| to have sb in your power(= to be able to do what you like with sb) 能支配某人 |
2. | [u] 统治;政权political control of a country or an area |
| to take/seize/lose power 掌握╱夺取╱失掉政权 |
| The present regime has been in power for two years. 现政权已经执政两年了。 |
| The party came to power at the last election. 这个政党是在上次大选中当选执政的。 |
| They are hoping to return to power. 他们希望重掌政权。 |
| a power struggle between rival factions within the party 党内对立派别之间的权力斗争 |
能力ability
3. | [u] 能力;机会the ability or opportunity to do sth |
| It is not within my power(= I am unable or not in a position) to help you. 我是爱莫能助啊。 |
| I will do everything in my power to help you. 我将尽全力帮助你。 |
4. | [u] (身体、心智的)某种能力a particular ability of the body or mind |
| He had lost the power of speech. 他丧失了语言能力。 |
| The drug may affect your powers of concentration. 这种药可能会影响你的注意力集中。 |
| He had to use all his powers of persuasion. 他只好使出说服人的全部本领。 |
5. | [pl] (全部)体力,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 岁时,他处于巅峰状态,排名世界第四。 |
权威authority
6. | [u][c][usupl] 权力;职权;权势the right or authority of a person or group to do sth |
| The Secretary of State has the power to approve the proposals. 国务卿有权批准这些提案。 |
| The powers of the police must be clearly defined. 警察的职权必须明确界定。 |
| The president has the power of veto over all new legislation. 总统有权否决一切新法规。 |
国家country
7. | [c] 有影响力的大国;军事强国a country with a lot of influence in world affairs, or with great military strength |
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| an allied/enemy power 同盟国;敌对国 |
影响influence
8. | [u] 某方面的力量(或影响);实力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╱海上军事力量 |
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9. | [u] (某事物或社会集团的)影响力,势力the influence of a particular thing or group within society |
| the power of the media 媒体的影响力 |
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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. 那艘船只能任凭强大的暴风雨肆虐。 |
| It was a performance of great power. 那是巨大能量的作用。 |
11. | [u] (身体的)力量;体力physical strength used in action; physical strength that sb possesses and might use |
| He hit the ball with as much power as he could. 他用尽全力击球。 |
| the sheer physical power of the man 那个男人惊人的体力 |
12. | [u] 能;能量;动力energy that can be collected and used to operate a machine, to make electricity, etc. |
| nuclear/wind/solar power 核能;风能;太阳能 |
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电electricity
13. | [u] 电力供应the public supply of electricity |
| They've switched off the power. 他们关掉了电源。 |
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数学mathematics
14. | [c][ususing] 乘方;幂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。 |
透镜of lens
15. | [u] 放大倍数;放大率the amount by which a lens can make objects appear larger |
| the power of a microscope/telescope 显微镜╱望远镜的放大率 |
善良的╱邪恶的精灵good/evil spirit
16. | [c] 正义(或邪恶)力量a good or evil spirit that controls the lives of others |
| the powers of darkness(= the forces of evil) 黑暗势力 |
提供动力supply energy
1. | [t][usupass] ~ sth 驱动,推动(机器或车辆)to supply a machine or vehicle with the energy that makes it work |
| The aircraft is powered by a jet engine. 这架飞机由喷气发动机驱动。 |
快速移动move quickly
2. | [i][t] (使)迅猛移动,快速前进to move or move sth very quickly and with great power in a particular direction |
| He powered through the water. 他在水中迅速游动。 |
| She powered her way into the lead. 她迅速用力冲到最前面。 |
| He powered his header past the goalie. 他用力把球顶过了守门员。 |
习惯用语
do sb a power of good
对身心大为有益to be very good for sb's physical or mental health
more power to sbs elbow
(表示支持或鼓励)再加把劲,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;幕后操纵者the person who really controls an organization, a country, etc. in contrast to the person who is legally in charge
the powers that be
当权派;权力集团the people who control an organization, a country, etc.
英汉解释
n. | 1. 【机】动力,机力;简单的机械;电力;电(能)源;功率;率;能量;生产率 2. 力,力量;能力;体力,精力;(生理)机能;才能 |
v. | 1. 〈美〉给...装发动机,赋与...以动力;用动力发动 |
英英解释
例句
Sexual harassment is often a display of power aimed at intimidating and degrading the harassed person.
性骚扰也是炫耀旨在恐吓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.
除非你想用它来做大事,否则有多少回报或有多大的力量都没有什么意义。
The speed, power, and ammo of the Orca also makes it a prime choice for taking out husks.
奥卡的速度,火力和弹药使它成为清除外壳的最佳选择。
In such a situation, it would be easy for the mine to exploit the power station by suddenly jacking up the price of coal.
在这种情况下,煤矿很容易通过突然推高煤价而剥削发电站。
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鲁萨克森商业文化影响下,也阻止德国公用事业公司插手西班牙电力企业。
Yet Markus Willeke has found a way of investing watercolour painting with a new task, up-to-date relevance and astounding power.
然而马克斯·威勒克已经找到致力于水彩画的方式,那就是新任务、不断更新的相关性和惊人的力量。
All sports coaches believe passionately in the power of the team to lift performance not by just a little, but by 100%.
所有体育教练都满怀激情地认为集体的力量有助于提高成绩,不是提高一点点,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,当稍微创造性地选择API和编程方式时,Java语言的强大之处常常最明显。
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.
13亿人同样如此,能机械地坚韧近乎冷酷地面对这种情况,所以无怪乎他们是一个超级大国。
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.
电力说,还不清楚该委员会是否能够结束职责依靠自己的力量,或者如果欧盟各国政府能够衡量。
But no matter how much a parent intervenes, siblings have a unique power over each other.
不过无论家长们多么努力介入,兄弟姐妹之间总存在着一种相互影响的独特力量。
President Andrew Jackson understood the power of the Bank of the United States. He opposed giving the bank a new charter.
安德鲁杰克逊总统了解美国银行的权利,他反对给银行一个新的章程。
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.
写作,对于说话人来说,就是敲苦难的房门,这当然又要回到母性-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.
尽管有风、水、火的力量,但公园仍显得虚弱和不堪一击,而这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" .
在最近的一份报纸上,他试图评价,为了配得上其自我定位的“和平力量”形象,德国的作为是否足够。
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.
诺里斯太太回答说,她丝毫没有能力跟着一起照料那孩子,伯特伦爵士听了颇为惊讶。
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.
人类是自己的主人,但他倾向于放弃自己的力量,而求助于外界的权威——那些声称了解真相并对你有好处的人。
He even wondered if it might be possible to make computers for the poor in countries without an electric power grid.
他甚至想知道有没有可能为那些不通电的国家的穷人制造计算机。
His long absence and speculation over his health have led to calls for him to hand over power to his vice-president.
他的长期不在和对他健康的猜测要求他移交总统权利给副总统。
Certainly, nuclear power and weapons, if it comes to that, would be a matter of national pride.
如果就这点而言,核能力和武器会是一个关系到民族自豪感的问题。
The combining power of one element in the compound must be equal to the combining power of the other element.
化合物中一种元素的化合价必须等于另一元素的化合价。
She was smothered by his despotic power.
她被他的淫威镇住了。
Power densities that can be tolerated by a gage are strongly related to the specimen which serves as the heat sink.
应变片所能允许的电能密度与起着散热器作用的试件密切相关。
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权力,也许邓尼茨会给他这种权力。
Germany in particular used her air power to commit such experimental horrors as the bombing of the defenceless little township of Guernica.
尤其是德国,它用空军轰炸不设防的小城镇格尔尼卡,进行试验性的恐怖空袭。
Men, in the desire to increase their individual power and to satisfy their passions, will necessarily clash.
因为人们都欲求增加个体的力量,满足自己的激情,所以人们之间必然发生倾轧。
The light power of the composite system is equal to the ratio of the two single light power's.
组合系统的光力则为两个单个光力之比。
A vast industry scattered through a number of states is dependent on expenditures for air power.
散布在许多州的广大工业部门都得依靠空军的经费来维持生产。
The United States knows that peaceful power from atomic energy is no dream of the future.
美国知道原子能产生的和平力量不是未来的梦想。
There was little challenge to the notion that the commercialization of nuclear power deserved a high priority.
很少有人对“核电商业化理应列为重点”的看法提出异议。
One of them was the emergence of the United States during this period as the dominant industrial power in the world.
有一点是美国在此期间涌现为世界上占支配地位的工业国。
It is not satisfactory from a dimensional standpoint, since the power to which we raise e must be dimensionless.
从量纲的观点来看,它是不能令人满意的,因为e的幂必须是无量纲的。
Economic and social circumstances continued to weaken its power to influence events, and yet it remained a player in the game.
经济和社会状况继续削弱着它影响事态发展的能力。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.
他象一个神权君主似的玩弄强权政治游戏,不过玩得很好,而且是为了世界和平。
For one so young there was a rather strange power in him of seeing things in some sort of proportion.
年纪尽管这样轻,他却有一种权衡事情轻重的异常能力。
I had a weight of guilt upon me enough to sink any creature who had the least power of reflection left.
我有一个罪恶的重担压在身上,但凡有点反省能力的人都会给这重担压倒下去。
Oughtn't he have told me of it to have given me the power of clearing myself?
难道他不应该把这先告诉我,使我可以澄清事实吗?
His vices were no barrier to Hitler's collaboration with him along the hard and dangerous part to power.
他的劣行并不妨碍希特勒和他在夺取政权这条艰苦而危险的道路上互相合作。
Sometimes I thought she was in the power of some man. But I should not really believe it.
有时候我认为她受某个男人的摆布,然而我真不信竟会如此。
Here we see the swiftly drawn portrait of a woman of energy, power and judgment, as well as emotion.
这里我们看到了一幅生气勃勃,多才善断,感情充沛的妇女速写画。
As he had maintained his power without becoming unpopular, it may be presumed that he had exercised some wisdom.
由于他维持了自己的权力,又没有变得不受人欢迎,我们可以认为,他是运用了相当的智慧的。
Nature had already gifted me with the love of pleasure, and the desire of gain and power.
我生来就追求享乐和权势,唯利是图。
There was something sinister about the power of that man.
这个人的本质可真有点令人发瘆。
It was imperative in his mind that he should be sure he had the power to move her.
他内心里坚信,他有能力感动她,这是理所当然的。
In his striving for wealth, power, or sexual satisfaction, he reverts to his true animal nature, and the facade of civilization falls away.
在为财富、权力和性的满足奋斗时,人恢复了他真正的动物本性,文明的外观烟消云散。
His accession to power was sudden, and occurred at a difficult, critical period in the company's history.
他执掌大权这事来得突然,发生在公司历史上一个艰苦、关键的阶段。
The development of nuclear power would surge forward, beginning to fill the void that would be left by oil.
核电工业将会迅速发展以弥补石油的空缺。
Dismissing faith in the confused creeds of the heathen world, he reposed the greatest faith in the power of human wisdom.
他不相信异教徒信奉的种种杂乱无章的教义,却特别相信人类智慧的力量。
"The men of wealth and power in poor nations, " the President continued, "must lead the fight for those basic reforms. "
总统继续说到,“穷国中有财有势的人必须领导这些基本改革的斗争。”
The movement of eyes, which without being in the least theatrical, struck him as highly trained and full of conscious power.
她眼睛的转动,丝毫不做作,给他一种受过高级训练和充满内在力量的深刻印象。
Agility also provides Attack Power, and Crit, however, not enough to make it better than Attack Power for the BM Hunter.
敏捷还提供了攻击力,并击,但仍不足以使其攻击强度比为骨髓猎人。
Love we must have the other salt, she gives us the infinite power of our physical and mental state of excitement at the moment.
爱情是我们必需的另一种盐,她给我们带来无穷的力量,使我们的身心时刻处于亢奋状态。
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,这不过是上帝工作的些微;我们所听于他的是何等细微的声音!他大能的雷声谁能明透呢?
For one so young there was a rather strange power in him of seeing things in some sort of proportion.
年纪尽管这样轻,他却有一种权衡事情轻重的异常能力。
Having lost engine power, the boat's crew found themselves at the mercy of the wind.
在失去引擎动力之后,船员们发现自己只能任凭风力摆布了。
And that incident right there was enough to let me in on the potent power that scary quotes from horror movies hold over you.
这件事让我有足够的勇气将恐怖片中的恐怖台词对你们和盘托出。
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.
如果国会不准备作出行动,那么它应该至少授权美国农业部,给食品及药物管理局拨款,让它们来行使该行使的职能。
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.
我从小就认为这些恶魔有着疯狂的力量,但我认为把它投影到墙上不会把墙放倒。
Drain the girl, drain her power until there is nothing but a vacant shell.
吸干这女孩的能量,直到她彻底变成一具躯壳。
He said: "Li Zhongren was really someone. He was the acting president after then president had fallen out of power. "
他说,李宗仁可是个大人物,是国民党蒋介石下野后的代总统。
The power of a grain of wheat to grow into a plant remains latent if it is not planted.
如果不种植,一颗麦种长成一株植物的力量仍然潜在着。
"China is not close to developing into a global military power, " says Christopher D. Yung of the National Defense University.
美国国防大学(NationalDefenseUniversity)的克里斯托弗•D•扬(ChristopherD.Yung)表示:“中国发展成为世界军事强国尚需时日。”
He earned fame in his own country through the power of the Hallyu Wave, how can he not know that?
他赢得了声誉在自己的国家通过力量的韩流波,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.
美国官员称,迫使卡扎菲下台的方法之一就是,在利比亚设立禁飞区。
So setting up scientific, reasonable local environment legislative power is one of the preconditions in two-oriented society construction.
而设置科学、合理的地方环境立法权是建立两型社会的先决条件之一。
The question is how much the state-owned power companies will actually use the pollution control equipment once it is installed.
问题是这些国有企业安装这些设备将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.
对于每日营运的公共汽车公司而言,由电瓶提供动力与由一般的柴油机提供动力相比,似乎没有什么明显的优势。
Rather the body has a corpuscular structure, which gives it a power to cause that idea of yellow in me.
而是存在一种微粒结构,促使我形成了一种黄颜色的观念。
keep him in the dark about the true nature of his power.
让他蒙在鼓里对自己的真实能力毫不知情。
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.
兄弟会在埃及的地位从未触及政权,但通过社会工作对埃及产生了微妙的影响,也成了行业联盟的中坚力量。
In any event, he had the power to name his successor and was determined to use it.
但不管怎样,他有权提名他的接班人,并决心运用这种权力。
The nature of military technology was such that the balance of power could no longer be thought of as uniform.
军事技术的性质,使得力量均衡不再被认为是一成不变的。
They extended their power as much by the fear they incited as by the hope they inspired.
他们既利用被他们所激发的希望,也利用被他们所煽动的恐惧心理来扩大自己的势力。
It went on for nearly thirty years, and wasted all the power of Greece.
它持续了将近三十年,耗尽了希腊的全部力量。
Over the years, this group has become like a sovereign power at Ford unto itself.
多年后,这批人却成了福特公司的一股独立势力。
The government was determined to break the power of the trade unions.
政府决心削弱工会的力量。
It has the power to judge whether acts by corporations or governments are compatible with EEC treaties.
它对公司或政府的行为是否违背共同体条约有权作出决定。
The gradual erosion of our strength and power began in those halcyon years following World War II.
我们的力量是在第二次世界大战以后太平盛世开始逐渐消失的。
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积聚和掌握的大量物质力量就更令人困惑费解。
Three hundred dollars is a power of money.
三百块大洋可真是一笔大钱呀。