首页英语词典powerpower的意思

power

英 ['paʊə] 美['paʊɚ]

英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

近义词command dominion control mastery

n. 功率；力量；能力；政权；势力；[数] 幂
vt. 激励；供以动力；使…有力量
vi. 快速前进
adj. 借影响有权势人物以操纵权力的
n. (Power)人名；(英、葡)鲍尔

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词态变化

复数: powers;第三人称单数: powers;过去式: powered;过去分词: powered;现在分词: powering;

中文词源

power 权力，实力，力量，能量，乘方，幂

来自中古英语poer,力量，能力，来自古法语poeir,使有力量，来自拉丁语*potere,来自potis,有力量的，有权力的，词源同potent,possible.插入字母w,拼写比较tower,turret.引申诸相关词义。

英英释意

1. possession of controlling influence;: "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade"

2. (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second)

3. possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done;: "danger heightened his powers of discrimination"

4. a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world

5. (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power;: "being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"; "during his first year in office"; "during his first year in power"; "the power of the president"

6. one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority;: "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil"

7. physical strength

8. a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself

9. a very wealthy or powerful businessman;: "an oil baron"

英文词源

power: power: [13] Old Latin *potēre was the precursor of Latin posse ‘be able or powerful’ (source of English posse and possible). Its present participial stem potent- has given English potent. It seems to have remained current in colloquial speech, and by the 8th century AD was reasserting itself as the main form of the verb. It passed into Old French as poeir, later povoir (whence modern French pouvoir), and this came to be used as a noun, meaning ‘ability to do things’. Its Anglo-Norman version poer passed into English, where it became power.
=> posse, possible, potent
power (n.): c. 1300, "ability; ability to act or do; strength, vigor, might," especially in battle; "efficacy; control, mastery, lordship, dominion; legal power or authority; authorization; military force, an army," from Anglo-French pouair, Old French povoir, noun use of the infinitive, "to be able," earlier podir (9c.), from Vulgar Latin *potere, from Latin potis "powerful" (see potent).
Whatever some hypocritical ministers of government may say about it, power is the greatest of all pleasures. It seems to me that only love can beat it, and love is a happy illness that can't be picked up as easily as a Ministry. [Stendhal "de l'Amour," 1822]
Meaning "one who has power" is late 14c. Meaning "specific ability or capacity" is from early 15c. Meaning "a state or nation with regard to international authority or influence" [OED] is from 1726. Used for "a large number of" from 1660s. Meaning "energy available for work is from 1727. Sense of "electrical supply" is from 1896.

Phrase the powers that be is from Rom. xiii:1. As a statement wishing good luck, more power to (someone) is recorded from 1842. A power play in ice hockey so called by 1940. Power failure is from 1911; power steering from 1921.
power (v.): "to supply with power," 1898, from power (n.). Earlier it meant "make powerful" (1530s). Related: Powered; powering.

同义词辨析

energy, force, power, might, strength, vigour

这些名词均有"力"之意。

energy：用于人时，指工作时焕发出的精力或干劲。

force：着重指克服障碍，推动人或物朝所要求的方向运动或能产生明显效应的力量。

power：最普通用词，泛指一切力量或能力等。

might：多指巨大或超人的力量。

strength：指机体内部的能力，是依靠身体组织而存在的力，经使用就变为force。

vigour：指由生命元气的存在所产生的活力、精力。

nation, state, country, land, power

这些名词均含"国家"之意。

nation：普通用词，指在某一国土定居的人民、民族，强调人民。

state：正式用词，指政治概念上的国家，即由政府所代表的国家。

country：普通用词，侧重国土与人民。

land：常用于文学中，侧重国土，带感情色彩。

power：特指拥有强大军事力量，在国际事务中有较强权威或影响的国家，即强国、大国。

考试真题

These teams are gaining more power to run their own affairs.

When governments lose their control on power, law and order begin to disintegrate.

In her experience, people in positions of power or people in finance or engineering do not tend to like the sound of the word.

From her description, Chinese medicine sounded as if it had magic power that worked wonders.

In the last seven years, Americans have grown more pessimistic about the power of education to lead to success.

In the United States, the governor of a state has the power to change a sentence from the death penalty to life in prison.

Italy boasts more UNESCO World Heritage sites than any other country in the world, granting it considerable power and influence within the organization.

Maybe car manufacturers should have some responsibility in limiting the power of their engines.

One of the student inventors, Camellia Rupcich, says the device changes the energy released from the plant into low-level power to charge phones.

Research findings increasingly show the power of food to treat or reverse diseases, but that does not mean that diet alone is always the solution, or that every illness can benefit substantially from dietary changes.

They can recognize power and know how to use it.

without upgrades and new capacity, bridges, roads and power systems are unable to cope with expanding populations.

Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal ( ' , 地热).

Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.

Psychological research shows we consistently underestimate our mental powers.

In just the past few weeks, the world has witnessed the destructive power of earthquakes in Indonesia, typhoons in the Philippines, and the destructive sea waves that struck Samoa and neighboring islands.

find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.

Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.

MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the 118 power to regulate for plain packaging.

Instead, some in Africa and Asia are seeing their first lightbulbs illuminated by the power of sunlight stored in batteries.

In emerging economies, rural communities are bypassing the wires and wooden poles that spread power.

To test the polluting power of fulmars, researchers collected samples of deposit from eleven ponds on Devon Island.

Small wonder that an Indian legend described Devils Tower as being formed by supernatural powers.

Canadian scientists have found a worrisome new example of the power that birds have to spread stuff around.

Whether it is a transition from imported to domestic oil or from coal-powered electricity production to natural-gas power plants, politicians love to talk big.

When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline-powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light, understanding energy system inertia and momentum can help you decide whether their plans are feasible.

When investors put up money to build, say, a nuclear power plant, they expect to earn that money back over the planned life of the plant, which is typically between 40 and 60 years.

The power of such simple psychology in fighting climate change is attracting attention across the political establishment.

Some coal power plants in the United States have operated for more than 70 years! The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson River, and it went into commercial service in 1898.

It is one thing to say that we are going to shift 30 percent of our electricity supply from, say, coal to nuclear power in 20 years.

Chetty has not yet issued a comprehensive analysis of the relative predictive power of each of these factors.

But it was the ones that mentioned the actions of neighbours that drove down power use.

That’s energy in all forms--oil, gas, coal, nuclear, solar and even wind power.

According to college folklore, a well-turned essay has the power to seduce (诱惑) an admissions committee.

Another question invites them to write about the importance (to them, again) of diversity―a word that has assumed magic power in American higher education

In the developed world, women lag behind men in pay and political power.

Give women more political power

Energy to power machinery, both on the farm and in the storage and processing facilities, adds to the energy total, which currently represents about 3.1% of annual global energy consumption.

Stacked near the checkout counters, and as colorful as a Fisher-Price toy, is a not-so-serious-looking power tool: a battery-operated saw-and-drill combination.

Because so many of our modern technologies and services depend on oil, nations, corporations, and institutions that control the trade in oil exercise extraordinary power

We learn from the passage that in today's world, whoever monopolizes the oil market will be able to exercise extraordinary power.

Goals with financial rewards have strong motivational power.

In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books, Robert Darn ton, the head of Harvard University's library, argued that because such books are a common resource – the possession of us all – only public, not-for-profit bodies should be given the power to control them.

This settlement hands Google the power - but only with the agreement of individual rights holders – to exploit its database of out-of-print books

make full use of the power of its search engine

Academic studies have found no evidence so far that older voters have used their power at the ballot box to push for policies that specifically benefit them, though if in future there are many more of them they might start doing so.

Sting in the tail Ashby Plant is one of a number of psychologists who seized on Obama's candidacy to test hypotheses about the power of role models

He chose colors and styles known to communicate power and influence.

They are believed to communicate power and influence

By describing the destructive power of earthquakes.

"Supplying power to trains in this way would offer the shortest distance from well to wheels," he says, "with the least amount of energy lost."

He and other scientists say there are basically two options to replacing fossil fuels: generating energy with renewables or embracing nuclear power.

Here is the most malignant threat to our personal freedom, particularly as the balance of power in the workplace has been shifted so dramatically from worker to boss.

In emerging economies, rural communities are bypassing the wires and wooden poles that spread power.

In reflection, my firm belief in the power of the brand was naive, not to mention a bit snobby.

More of them, though, will skip those calculations altogether and just power through the holidays into 2017: More than half of American workers don't use up all of their allotted vacation days each year.

MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the power to regulate for plain packaging.

Power tool maker DeWalt partners with companies, such as Lowes and Napa Auto Parts, to collect old tools at their stores for recycling.

Rarely has there been a better example of the power of attitude, one of our most powerful psychological tools.

Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal (地热).

The combination of computational power and engineering advances will eventually enable lower-cost in-home care for the disabled, widespread use of driverless cars that may reduce drunk- and distracted-driving accidents and countless home and service-indus

They may have a home to shelter themselves, but it does not have power supply, a telephone or plumbing.

They worry that the adolescent peer group has the power to push its members into behavior that is foolish and even dangerous.

When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline -powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light

Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people's powers of attention.

But they do come to the text with a few biases (偏向): their reading of Henry v minimizes his misuse of power.

I don't know how many people would have done that; they would have listened to their agents or the studio powers.

I was now fascinated by the idea of poetry, words that had the power to make or break a person's world.

Internet companies' control of data gives them enormous power.

It can be concluded from the passage that "patty poem" leads the writer to discover the power of poetry.

Jack was working in the lab when the power cut occurred.

More wind power stations will spring up to meet the demand for clean energy.

On september 11, 1933, famous physicist Ernest Rutherford stated, with confidence, "anyone who expects a source of power in the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine."

Other cultures may use silence in other ways, particularly when dealing with conflicts among people or in relationships of people with different amounts of power.

Some experts say that women will become more effective managers than men because they have the power to reach common goals in a way that traditional male managers cannot.

The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel.

The steam-powered printing press was still in its early stages; the literacy rate in england was under 50%.

The studio powers didn't like his agent.

Then there's the kind of popularity that appears in adolescence: status born of power and even dishonorable behavior.

They are potential powers we possess: energy, skill, sound judgment, creative ideas — even physical strength greater than most of US realize.

They have a different kind of superpower that all of US possess: the power to make a difference in the lives of others.

They have got the power to change the world.

This development was only possible with the introduction of electric-powered engines and lifts.

This was the power that music in the classroom could have.

We are so fond of our high intelligence that we assume that when it comes to brain power, more must be better.

You can plant a tree, make a meal with locally grown vegetables, or save power — the possibilities are endless.

Since our chief business with them is to enable them to share in a common life we cannot help considering whether or no we are forming the powers which will secure this ability.

Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure family perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc.

The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.

The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after he has turned it on.

The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

Now the company is suddenly claiming that the 2002 agreement is invalid because of the 2006 legislation, and that only the federal government has regulatory power over nuclear issues.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the word.

The Constitutional principles that Washington alone has the power to.

The 8-0 objection to President Obama trues on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as “a shocking assertion assertion of federal executive power”.

Some powers do belong exclusively to the federal government,and control of citizenship and the borders is among them.

At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.

The potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giants.

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

"The valuable examples which they furnish of the power of self-help, of patient purpose, resolute working and steadfast integrity, issuing in the formation of truly noble and manly character, exhibit," wrote Smiles, " what it is in the power of each to ac

And yet, John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.

As such, it needed to appreciate the economic realities, the social contexts and power relations in which each epoch stood.

At a time when Thomas piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.

But a boost in the storage capacity of batteries is making their ability to keep power flowing around the clock more likely.

But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their li

But it can be done: Glasgow's year as European capital of culture can certainly be seen as one of complex series of factors that have turned the city into the power of art, music and theatre that it remains today.

But on the more important matter of the Constitution,the decision was an 8-0 defeat for the Administration's effort to upset the balance of power between the federal government and the states.

But that message did not play well with many in Iowa, where wind turbines dot the fields and provide 36 percent of the state's electricity generation – and where tech giants like Microsoft are being attracted by the availability of clean energy to power t

By the time a problem has been addressed and remedied it may have vanished in the marketplace, to be replaced by new abuses of power.

Competition law appears to be the only way to address these imbalances of power.

During the Renaissance, the great minds of nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei demonstrated the power of scientific study and discovery.

In a recent speech in Lowa, he dismissed wind power as an unreliable energy source.

In both cases, we need a rebalancing of power.

In March, for the first time, wind and solar power accounted for more than 10 percent of the power generated in the US, reported the US Energy Information Administration.

In Scotland, for example, wind turbines provide enough electricity to power 95 percent of homes.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

Stereotypes associated with obesity include laziness, lack of will power, and lower prospects for success.

The 8-0 objection to President Obama turns on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as "a shocking assertion of federal executive power".

The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont's only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

The Constitutional principles that Washington alone has the power to "establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization" and that federal laws precede state laws are non-controversial.

The Labour party has recently announced that it will retain a large part of the coalition's spending plans if it returns to power.

The move to renewables is picking up momentum around the world: They now account for more than half of new power sources going on line.

The potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giant.

The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first

The younger they learn how computers think, how to coax the machine into producing what they want 一 the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that 一 the better.

They gave justices permanent positions so they would be free to upset those in power and have no need to cultivate political support.

They had pushed the agency to designate the bird as "endangered, " a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats.

Through experiments and observation, social scientists like Dr. Berning have learned that there is power in tying certain behaviors to habitual cues through ruthless advertising.

tim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, points to a study in the early 1980s that divided undergraduates into two groups: some were advised to set out monthly goals and study activities; others were told to plan activit

When women do break through to the summit of corporate power—as, for example, Sheryl Sandberg recently did at Facebook—they attract massive attention precisely because they remain the exception to the rule.

While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping hags and straws, we're ignoring the balance of power that implies that as "consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as "citizens" hole our

词组搭配

do someone/thing a power of good

(informal)be very beneficial to someone or something

(非正式)对（人，物）大有好处

in the power of

under the control of

在…的控制下，受…支配

more power to your elbow!

(Brit.)said to encourage someone or express approval of their actions

(英)（表示鼓励、赞同）祝一帆风顺！祝你成功！

power behind the throne

a person who exerts authority or influence without having formal status

幕后操纵者，垂帘听政者

the powers that be

the authorities

当权者

powers that be

Those who hold effective power in a system or situation

掌权者：在某一系统或职位中掌握实权的人

a plan vetoed by the powers that be.
被掌权者们否决了的计划

实用场景例句

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命。

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

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。

She interviewed six women who have reached positions of great power and influence...: 她采访了6名身居高位，并且颇具影响力的女士。

In a democracy, power must be divided.: 在民主政体中，权力必须分制。

Human societies have the power to solve the problems confronting them...: 人类社会有能力解决面临的问题。

Fathers have the power to dominate children and young people...: 父辈们有能力支配孩子们和年轻人的生活。

Your debt situation is only temporary, and it is within your power to resolve it...: 你的债务情况只是暂时的，你有能力解决好。

Although it is not in his power to do so, he said he would rebuild the Air Base...: 虽然这超出了他的能力范围，他还是说他会重建空军基地。

The Prime Minister has the power to dismiss and appoint senior ministers...: 首相有权任免高级部长。

The police have the power of arrest...: 警方有权拘捕。

In 1964 Labour came into power...: 工党于1964年上台。

He first assumed power in 1970...: 他于1970年首次执政。

In Western eyes, Iraq is a major power in an area of great strategic importance.: 在西方人眼里，伊拉克是位于具有重要战略意义的地区的一个重要强国。

...the emergence of the new major economic power, Japan.: 新兴重要经济强国日本的崛起

The Roadrunner had better power, better tyres, and better brakes.: “路行者”汽车的性能、轮胎和刹车都更好。

...massive computing power.: 强大的计算能力

Nuclear power is cleaner than coal...: 核能比煤清洁。

Power has been restored to most parts that were hit last night by high winds...: 大部分昨晚遭大风袭击的地区已恢复供电。

The 'flywheel' battery, it is said, could power an electric car for 600 miles on a single charge...: 据说“飞轮”电池充电一次就能驱动电动汽车行驶600英里。

The planes are powered by Rolls Royce engines.: 这些飞机由劳斯莱斯公司制造的发动机提供动力。

...large power tools, such as chainsaws.: 大型电动工具，如链锯

...a power drill.: 电钻

Any number to the power of nought is equal to one.: 任何数的0次方等于1。

The powers that be, in this case the independent Television Association, banned the advertisement altogether...: 掌权的，在这件事中即独立的电视协会，干脆禁播了那则电视广告。

The powers that be may keep us from building a house just where we want to.: 当局可能会阻止我们随意建房屋。