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单词 powerful
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powerful
(pəʳfʊl )
1. adjective B1+
A powerful person or organization is able to control or influence people and events.
You're a powerful man–people will listen to you.
...Russia and India, two large, powerful countries.
...Hong Kong's powerful business community.
Synonyms: influential, dominant, controlling, commanding  
2.  See also all-powerful
3. adjective B1+
You say that someone's body is powerful when it is physically strong.
Hans flexed his powerful muscles.
It's such a big powerful dog.
powerfully adverb [ADVERB with verb] B2
He is described as a strong, powerfully-built man of 60.
You can contract your muscles more powerfully by linking up your breathing to the exercise.
4. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B1+
A powerful machine or substance is effective because it is very strong.
The more powerful the car the more difficult it is to handle.
...powerful computer systems.
...a powerful magnet.
powerfully adverb [ADVERB adjective] B2
The substance is powerfully addictive.
5. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2
A powerful smell is very strong.
There was a powerful smell of garlic.
...tiny creamy flowers with a powerful scent.
Synonyms: intoxicating, strong, heady  
powerfully adverb [ADVERB after verb]
The railway station smelt powerfully of cats and drains.
6. adjective
A powerful voice is loud and can be heard from a long way away.
At that moment the housekeeper's powerful voice interrupted them, announcing a visitor.
7. adjective B2
You describe a piece of writing, speech, or work of art as powerful when it has a strong effect on people's feelings or beliefs.
...Bleasdale's powerful 11-part drama about a corrupt city leader.
...one of the world's most powerful and moving operas, Verdi's 'Otello'.
...a powerful new style of dance-theatre.
Synonyms: persuasive, convincing, effective, telling  
powerfully adverb [ADVERB -ed, ADVERB after verb]
It's a play–painful, funny and powerfully acted.
Synonyms: strongly, hard, vigorously, forcibly  
Collocations:
powerful brand
It became a powerful brand.
Times, Sunday Times
It remains one of the most powerful brands on the planet.
Times, Sunday Times
The study also ranked the most powerful brands, measuring how much the name and logo contribute to sales.
The Sun
powerful neighbour
She takes on an arbitration dispute with its large powerful neighbour.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite centuries of pressure from a powerful neighbour and internal hostility, the language has survived and for that miracle alone should be supported.
Times, Sunday Times
By the 1050s he was highly self-confident and ready to confront powerful neighbours.
The Times Literary Supplement
All societies nurture national myths, particularly small countries with powerful neighbours.
Times, Sunday Times
Before that, its brief flirtations with sovereignty were soon crushed by more powerful neighbours.
Times, Sunday Times
powerful presence
The rugged landscape of this vast estate, where more than 60 permanent sculptures loom large, has a powerful presence.
Times, Sunday Times
And she had a very powerful presence: the hand that rocked the cradle rocked the world in that house.
Times,Sunday Times
Skipper led by example and offered a powerful presence.
The Sun
As the ability to sustain this open awareness without reference to the pictures was acquired, bit by painful bit, the joy of immediacy overcame the fear of powerful presence.
Christianity Today
Live, however, the 48-year-old's powerful presence and bewitching singing drew the audience in to her oddball world from the off and held them transfixed for almost two hours.
Times, Sunday Times
powerful punch
It packs a powerful punch, so keep cuts minimal and fabrics unembellished.
Times, Sunday Times
In small theatres, it will pack a powerful punch.
Times, Sunday Times
The powerful punch was again followed by the powerful counter-punch.
Times, Sunday Times
We're talking the texture and comfort of a lightweight balm teamed with the powerful punch of pigment and a vinyl finish.
The Sun
Its economy packs a surprisingly powerful punch.
Times, Sunday Times
powerful statement
A protest would have been a powerful statement.
The Sun
And yet though 'being there' was by definition a powerful statement, still his presence troubled me.
Times, Sunday Times
Go whole range and a company can make a powerful statement.
Times, Sunday Times
There couldn't be a more powerful statement about the nature of politics.
Times, Sunday Times
The show had been created as a powerful statement of strength but has turned into a living nightmare for the pained performer.
The Sun
powerful storm
This was possibly the most powerful storm on record to make landfall anywhere in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
The flood followed a powerful storm that dropped almost half a year's rainfall over two days.
Times, Sunday Times
There was little warning from forecasters, but some older people had noticed unusual signs beforehand and suspected that a powerful storm was approaching.
Times, Sunday Times
Most residents did not know a powerful storm was coming until four hours before landfall.
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The hurricane causes severe waves and a powerful storm surge, damaging life guard stations and wrecking or washing 31 vessels ashore.
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powerful symbol
It's a powerful symbol of the ambitions of potentates brought low and looks an amusing parody/tribute.
Times, Sunday Times
The powerful symbol of the collapsing wall deserves to be celebrated as a sign not only of hope but of endurance.
Times, Sunday Times
It would have provided a powerful symbol of the threat from climate change - but it was not to be.
Times, Sunday Times
And now, as it celebrates its 150th anniversary, it stands as a powerful symbol of resilience.
Smithsonian Mag
Now a powerful symbol of the friendship and unity between our two countries lies shunned and rotting in a storage depot.
The Sun
powerful telescope
She was so fired by his passion for cosmology that she bought herself a powerful telescope.
Times, Sunday Times
It's the most powerful microscope ever built and at the same time the most powerful telescope ever built.
Times, Sunday Times
If the skies are clear at night, guests can view the heavens through the lodge's powerful telescope.
ST
Enjoy informative talks on the solar eclipse and view the night skies with powerful telescopes.
ST
Take a tour around distant galaxies, nebulae and star clusters through the powerful telescopes at this public observing evening.
Times, Sunday Times
powerful testimony
One particular preacher, a businessman who had experienced a sensational conversion, was known for his one sermon-a powerful testimony capped by an altar call.
Christianity Today
A new story was being written in our church's life, and it offered a powerful testimony to those who observed from without.
Christianity Today
It came after powerful testimony from her alleged victims.
The Sun
They are known for their powerful testimonies as well as for their music.
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Translations:
Chinese: 强大的
Japanese: 強力な
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