| 单词 | power |
| 释义 | pow·er I. 1. a. < party in power > < there are no … assignable boundaries to sovereign power — J.H.Hallowell > < bidding for personal power and aiming to make himself absolute dictator — A.P.Ryan > < knowledge meant power over nature — W.A.Kaufmann > b. (1) < mechanized, motorized, horse and foot units … make the enemy a formidable power — Shipley Thomas > < sea-borne air power successfully challenged land-based planes — Atlantic > (2) < his military power absolutely crushed — Oscar Handlin > c. chiefly dialect < there had been such a power of elderberries the year before — Mary Webb > < contains a power of fine Arizona scenery — Newsweek > 2. a. (1) < purchasing power > < countries behind the Iron Curtain would make the same choice if they had the power — A.J.Toynbee > < the urbane power of reason, and the persuasive influence of just consideration — Gilbert Parker > < learned more about the power and the beauty of clear design by reading … sonnets — Janna Burgess > (2) < their visual sense was far more highly developed than their power of smell — W.E.Swinton > < a man who has learned the technique of scientific investigation has added a new power to his mind — Benjamin Farrington > < showed his power as a playwright — A.H.Quinn > — often used in plural < a man of fine mental powers — C.B.Fisher > < test your powers of observation — Richard Harrison > < loath to believe that a bird so small … could possess such vocal powers — John Burroughs > (3) b. < when the Democratic party regained power in the state, he was reappointed surrogate — H.W.H.Knott > < a man of power with the Sioux, rescued the three captives — I.B.Richman > 3. a. (1) < invaded his powers as commander-in-chief — Isabel Whittier > < not necessary for Congress to trace back every one of its powers to some single grant of authority — F.A.Ogg & P.O.Ray > (2) < an emissary with power to negotiate > b. < not until the end of September did the British representative … show satisfactory powers to treat with the thirteen United States of America — W.C.Ford > c. < the power to bestow degrees was granted by the legislature in 1820 — American Guide Series: Maine > < argument began over the nature of the proposed pact and whether it would deprive Congress of the power to declare war — L.B.Burbank > specifically 4. < was a power in ecclesiastical councils — H.E.Starr > < the organs of justice … are the chief power in the state — Jacques Maritain > < I wish the powers that be would send me out there — Rose Macaulay > < preferred in politics to be the power behind the throne — Louis Bromfield > specifically < the brutal and unprovoked assault … has caused reassessment of the foreign policies of the western powers — Army-Navy-Air Force Journal > 5. a. powers plural, often capitalized < the powers and Thrones above — John Keble > b. < the sky … is the male power — J.G.Frazer > < a good power called God — Time > < shamanistic powers … were associated with animal or abstract beings — M.J.Herskovits > c. dialect < almost got the power with the rest of them if for no other reason than the coffee and sandwiches — H.A.Chippendale > 6. a. < punishment calls for clear predominance of power — H.D.Gideonse > < the dancer is … using only a portion of his power — Reginald & Gladys Laubin > < a great flood moving with majesty and power — Willa Cather > < the building has unusual power — American Guide Series: New York City > b. < laid down with great power and insight a spiritual philosophy — W.R.Inge > < the power of his curiosity surprised him — Morley Callaghan > < it is fine, sturdy stuff and more power to him — G.N.Shuster > c. < present-day tendency … to speak of the state almost exclusively in terms of power — American Polit. Sci. Review > 7. a. b. 8. a. < they are … powers of material substances — Grace De Laguna > < adrenalin … has the power of constricting the blood vessels — Morris Fishbein > b. (1) < the power of K was usually written by C — Stanley Wemyss > (2) 9. a. archaic b. (1) < muscle power > < tractor power > < wind power > < atomic power > < using horses and mules for power — C.B.Bender > especially < the shortage of power dims the streets — Wyndham Lewis > (2) < gathered their herds and started them on their own power in charge of cowboys — W.P.Webb > < ships … arrive, dock, and depart under their own power — American Guide Series: North Carolina > c. < mechanical power of the internal combustion engine — A.C.Morrison > — usually expressed in horsepower or watts 10. a. b. Synonyms: < the Governor's position is no longer one merely of dignity and honor, but of constantly increasing power — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > < the trustees have power to appoint and displace professors, tutors, and other officers — John Marshall > or to make effective use of one's capacities < the Senate had been voting according to direction for so long that they seemed to have lost the power of independent decisions — Robert Graves > control emphasizes the power of direction or restraint < his nervous exasperation had grown so much that now very often he used to lose control of his voice — Joseph Conrad > < he is likely to be the most hated man, because he exercises the greatest control — Abram Kardiner > < all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress — U.S. Constitution > authority usually implies the granting of power for a specific purpose and within a carefully delineated frame of reference < by authority we mean the established right, within any social order, to determine policies, to pronounce judgments on relevant issues, and to settle controversies, or, more broadly, to act as leader or guide to other men — R.M.MacIver > but may also refer to influence derived from public sanction < some of the new philosophies undermine the authority of science, as some of the older systems undermined the authority of religion — W.R.Inge > jurisdiction usually applies to official power and responsibility formally determined and demarcated < in all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction — U.S. Constitution > < there can be no doubt as to the jurisdiction of this court to revise the judgment of the Circuit Court, and to reverse it for any error apparent on the record — R.B.Taney > < many of the smaller squires and most of the larger ones had the right to private jurisdiction; the number of nobles with the right to put a man to death upon their own estates was appreciable — Hilaire Belloc > command stresses the power to make arbitrary decisions and to compel obedience < in war the president assumes command of the army and navy > < he had no command among the men, and people did what they pleased with him — R.L.Stevenson > or it may imply self-mastery or mastery over one's resources < the author's command of his material is admirable, and his presentation masterly — H.O.Taylor > dominion indicates ultimate sovereignty or supreme authority < neither the English nor colonial Governments claimed or exercised any dominion over the tribe or nation by whom it was occupied, nor claimed the right to the possession of the territory, until the tribe or nation consented to cede it — R.B.Taney > < the four wars between England and France for dominion in North America — American Guide Series: North Carolina > sway, somewhat rhetorical in effect, indicates a sweeping extent over which dominant power or dominion is exercised < it was as a successful warlord that the dictator Julius Caesar, after the defeat of Pompey at Pharsalia in 48 B.C., had brought the whole Roman world under the sway of one supreme military commander — P.N.Ure > < in 1673 the Dutch recaptured the Colony, but in 1674 it was restored by treaty to the English, who promptly resumed their sway — American Guide Series: New York > < no government, whatever its nature or form, can hold absolute sway in the multitudinous ramifications of human activity — Encyc. Americana > Synonyms: < power, which is any and every capacity to produce results — American Polit. Sci. Review > < the immense property value of the slaves and the power of the owners to control all the political agencies of the government — W.C.Ford > < the power of the bridge to withstand great weights > < the precious power to lift the minds and hearts of children — R.H.Wittcoff > < the power to understand and be affected by music > < who was a power in marine and financial circles in New York — H.W.H.Knott > force stresses the actual exercise of power, often applying to something which exercises its power efficaciously < to charge against a door with enough force to break it down > < a society crowded by almost every other force toward like-mindedness and conformity — Oscar Handlin > < a powerful political force > < a police force > energy contrasts with latent power, denoting the power expended or capable of being transformed into work; in common use it implies stored-up power; in the physical sciences it is conceived of as one of two possible aspects of matter (the other being mass) and signifying, roughly, the capacity for work, realized or potential < how the immense energy of volcanoes might be harnessed for man's use — Howel Williams > < measuring the physical output may furnish some rough estimate of the energy given out by the worker — J.A.Hobson > < energy for sudden action, rapidity of decision, mystical fusion of reason and passion, which characterizes men created to act — William Troy > < the electrical energy expended in the circuit is derived from the chemical energy of the freshly compounded battery — K.K.Darrow > < energy and mass are two aspects of the same entity, and when the energy departs the corresponding amount of mass also departs — A.S.Eddington > strength applies to the power residing in a thing as a result of qualities or properties (as health or soundness in bodily condition, or numbers or great equipment in military organization) that enable it to exert force or manifest great energy as in resistance, attack, or endurance < a man of great strength > < a wall of great strength > < a political party of great strength > < a military force of great strength > might, somewhat literary, suggests great or superhuman power or force < sportsmen have risen in their articulate might and blasted the proposals out of legislative halls — American Guide Series: Michigan > < the most savage winter in the memory of the Colonies hurled its icy might against the Americans at Valley Forge — F.V.W.Mason > although in certain current fixed constructions it still retains its older sense of strength or force < they reserve to themselves the right to curse the city's shortcomings with might and main — American Guide Series: Maryland > < Washington remonstrated with all his might — H.E.Scudder > puissance, rhetorical and literary, is similar to might but suggests a display of power < the sapience and puissance of the American businessman in general and the American financier in particular — G.W.Johnson > < their legs had lost almost all puissance; for minutes they would stand virtually in place, unable to coordinate their thighs and feet to move forward — Norman Mailer > arm in this connection is the figurative extension of arm, the human limb, and signifies operative and effective power or that in which such power resides; or it can, in related but specialized use, signify a branch of the service < the strong arm of the law > < the military was a fairly good arm of the American people — T.D.Clark > < until all arms of the international fighting services are up to strength — A.P.Ryan > II. transitive verb 1. < warships … other craft, powered by 80,000,000 horsepower — Time > 2. a. < tankers … fetch the fuel that powers trains and trucks — Andrew Boyd > < are you waiting for me to power you out the door — F.W.Booth > especially < tiny atomic batteries designed to power the electronic brains in guided missiles — Newsweek > b. < decision to revenge … his wife, is powered by a quiet, controlled anger — Atlantic > intransitive verb < we powered cautiously into a fog — Thomas Morgan > III. IV. V. 1. < a power hitter in baseball > 2. < a power critic > 3. < a power restaurant > < a power lunch > 4. < blue power suits > < a power smile > |
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