powerful
英 ['pa??f?l; -f(?)l]
美['pa??fl]
- adj. 強(qiáng)大的；強(qiáng)有力的
- adv. 很；非常
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英文詞源
- powerful (adj.)
- c. 1400, from power (n.) + -ful. Meaning "of great quality or number" is from 1811; colloquial sense of "exceedingly" (adv.) is from 1822. Related: Powerfully. Thornton ("American Glossary") notes powerful as "Much used by common people in the sense of very," along with monstrous and cites curious expressions such as devilish good, monstrous pretty (1799), , cruel pretty, abominable fine (1803), "or when a young lady admires a lap dog for being so vastly small and declares him prodigious handsome" (1799).
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. The government wilted in the face of such powerful pressure.
- 政府面對(duì)如此大的壓力，失去了信心。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. The social cachet of some form of qualification in India is powerful.
- 在印度，具有某種資格享有巨大的社會(huì)威望。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. The once-powerful post unions have been cut down to size.
- 一度很強(qiáng)勢(shì)的郵政聯(lián)盟已經(jīng)威風(fēng)不再。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. Ferries are very powerful and manoeuvrable compared to cargo ships.
- 與貨船相比，渡船馬力大而且易操縱。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. In some works, flowers take on a powerful emblematic quality.
- 在一些作品中，花具有強(qiáng)烈的象征意義。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句