posse

英 ['pɒsɪ] 美['pɑsi]

低频词畅通词汇GRE

复数: posses;

posse 一群，一伙

来自拉丁语posse,有权力，有能力，使能够，词源同possible,potent.后引申词义一群人，一帮土匪，受美国西部电影影响该词得以流行。

posse: posse: [17] Posse was the Latin verb for ‘be able’. It was a conflation of an earlier expression potis esse ‘be able’; and potis ‘able’ was descended from an Indo-European base *potthat also produced Sanskrit pati- ‘master, husband’ and Lithuanian patis ‘husband’. In medieval Latin posse came to be used as a noun meaning ‘power, force’.

It formed the basis of the expression posse comitātus, literally ‘force of the county’, denoting a body of men whom the sheriff of a county was empowered to raise for such purposes as suppressing a riot. The abbreviated form posse emerged at the end of the 17th century, but really came into its own in 18th- and 19th-century America.
=> possible, potent
posse (n.): 1640s (in Anglo-Latin from early 14c.), shortening of posse comitatus "the force of the county" (1620s, in Anglo-Latin from late 13c.), from Medieval Latin posse "body of men, power," from Latin posse "have power, be able" (see potent) + comitatus "of the county," genitive of Late Latin word for "court palace" (see comitatus). Modern slang meaning "small gang" is probably from Western movies.

A posse of Marsh's friends persuaded them that this was a bad idea.: 马什的一群朋友劝他们说这是个馊主意。

Street lamp light crouchs posse , resemble brushy balloon, wave in the sky in grey indigo color.: 路灯光蜷缩一团, 象毛茸茸的气球, 飘在灰靛色的空中.

The sheriff said that the posse could head off the outlaws at the pass.: 那位行政司法长官说,警察们可以在关口截住那些''.'亡命之徒'.''.

Joy in living can never be assumed as a posse or put on as a mask.: 生活的乐趣是无法靠姿态摆出来的,也无法用戴上一张面具来伪装.

Reforming the old posse seems to have lit a spark under its leader as well.: 改革过去的乐队组合似乎同样在它的领头人身体底下点了把火.

The sheriff said posse could head off the outlaws at the pass.: 那位行政司法长官说,警察们可以在关口截住那些亡命之徒.

Only the wise posse ideas ; the greater part of mankind is possessed by them.: 惟有智者有创见,而大部分的人则被这些创见迷住了.

To overcome this problem, microwave sintering posse sses is attempted in the present process.: 微波烧结具有升温速率快、反应时间短和体加热等显著特点,能解决传统烧结带来的问题.

A posse of Detroit executives went to Tokyo to plead for relief from Japan's export drive.: 底特律汽车界的一些高管们前往东京,恳求日本减弱其向美国的出口势头.

Laugh at posse every time, 3 lunar hind laugh a few days again, really happy.: 每次都笑成一团, 三个月后又大笑几天, 真是快乐.

Those on today's posse got one drink coming from the county budget!: 今天巡逻的人喝一杯县里出钱的酒.

Chen Zhankui battle song gallops sky, we are posse fire.: 军工战歌陈占奎驰骋天空, 我们是一团火.

A posse of Marsh's friends persuaded them that this was a bad idea.: 马什的一群朋友劝他们说这是个馊主意。