power

英[ˈpaʊə(r)]美[ˈpaʊər]

n.权力，能力，操纵力，职权，*权，体力，强国，实力，影响力，动力，能量，电力供应，幂，放大率，势力；

v.驱动，快速前进；

adj.电动的；

复数：powers;

第三人称单数：powers;

过去式：powered;

过去分词：powered;

现在分词：powering;

例句

His greed for power knows no bounds.他的权力欲是无止境的。

unprocessed liquid waste from a nuclear power station核电站排出的未经处理的废液

She claimed that nuclear power was the most environmentally safe form of energy.她声称核能是*环保的能源。

to decentralise and geographically disperse political and economic power将**和经济权力下放和分散到各地区

the purposes for which power can be rightfully exercised为了权力能够正当行使的目的

The oboe tends to lose power in the upper register, but with the clarinet the opposite is the case.双簧管往往在高音区效果不佳，而单簧管则正好相反。

The court has no power to order a psychiatric examination of the child’s parents.法院无权要求对孩子的父母进行精神病检查。

The country has sold out its principles in yielding to the demands of a military power.这个国家屈从于一个*事大国的要求而出卖原则。

They may grant you power,honour,and riches but afflict you with servitude,infamy,and poverty.他们可以给你权力、荣誉和财富,但却用奴役、耻辱和贫穷来折磨你。

They are rewarded in pay,power and perquisites.作为报偿,他们得到了钱、权力和额外收益。

英语六级真题

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

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-UNCOUNT

权力；权势；操纵力

If someone has power, they have a lot of control over people and activities.

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N-UNCOUNT

能力；才能

Your power to do something is your ability to do it.

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在…能力范围之内

If it is in or within your power to do something, you are able to do it or you have the resources to deal with it.

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N-UNCOUNT

（法律赋予当权者的）权力，权限，职权

If someone in authority has the power to do something, they have the legal right to do it.

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N-UNCOUNT

*权；统治权

If people take power or come to power, they take charge of a country's affairs. If a group of people are in power, they are in charge of a country's affairs.

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N-COUNT

强国；大国

You can use power to refer to a country that is very rich or important, or has strong military forces.

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N-UNCOUNT

动力；功率力

The power of something is the ability that it has to move or affect things.

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N-UNCOUNT

能源；能量；（尤指）电力

Power is energy, especially electricity, that is obtained in large quantities from a fuel source and used to operate lights, heating, and machinery.

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VERB

给…提供能量；驱动（机器）

The device or fuel that powers a machine provides the energy that the machine needs in order to work.

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ADJ

电动的

Power tools are operated by electricity.

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N-SING

（数学中的）幂，乘方

In mathematics, power is used in expressions such as 2 to the power of 4 or 2 to the 4th power to indicate that 2 must be multiplied by itself 4 times. This is written in numbers as 24, or 2 x 2 x 2 x 2, which equals 16.

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PHRASE

当权者，当*（尤指对其不赞同或不能理解其言行）

You can refer to people in authority as the powers that be, especially when you want to say that you disagree with them or do not understand what they say or do.

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英汉词典释义

n.

权力, 势力; 影响力

*权

职权

能力, 天赋; 体力, 力量

功力, 动力, 功率

强国, 有权势的人[团体等]

幂, 乘方

放大倍数；放大率

正义（或邪恶）力量

控制力；操纵力

能力；机会

（身体、心智的）某种能力

（全部）体力，智力

某方面的力量（或影响）；实力

（某事物或社会集团的）影响力，势力

电力供应

vt.

用发动机发动；给…提供动力

驱动，推动（机器或车辆）

（使）迅猛移动，快速前进

为(机器)装发动机

vi.

靠动力行进，靠发动机行进；快速行进，奋力前进

adj.

用电力(或动力)发动的

动力的；电力的；输电的

(为省力而)装有辅助动力系统的，有助力装置的

权力的

(运动员或打法)力量型的

英英词典释义

Noun

1. possession of controlling influence;

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;

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;

6. one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority;

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;

Verb

1. supply the force or power for the functioning of;

行业词典

体育： 功率；爆发力；

力学： 功率；

医学： 力：能力，力量，作用力；放大率：显微镜的放大倍数；功率；

数学： 幂；

水产： ［主机］额定功率： rating power在现行有关标准规定的环境条件下，允许长期持续运转的*大有效输出功率。；机帆渔船: powered sail fishing vessel 利用机械动力和风帆推进的渔船。；机动渔船: driven fishing vessel 依靠本船机械动力来推进的渔船。；

水利： 功率；单位时间内所做的功。；

法律： 威力；强权；权限；权力；

物理学： 功率［密度］谱；［density］ spectrum；

电力： 工频过电压: power-frequency overvoltage；额定断流能力: power-frequency current interrup-ting rating；工频耐受电压: power-frequency withstand voltage；工频放电电压: power-frequency sparkover voltage；工频试验变压器: power-frequency testing transformer；功角曲线: power-angle curve；

电子学： 功率；