power

参见：Power

英语

其他形式

• powre (弃用)

词源

源自中古英语 power、poer，源自古法语 poeir，源自通俗拉丁语 *potēre，源自拉丁语 possum、posse (“能够”)，见potent。对比法语 pouvoir。取代了古英语原生词汇anweald。

发音

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈpaʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈpaʊ.ə(ɹ)/
  • (有三元音平滑) 国际音标^(帮助)：/paə/, /paː/, /pɑː/
• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/, /ˈpaʊɹ/, [ˈpʰaʊ̯ɚ], [ˈpʰaʊ̯ɹ]

• 音频（美式）

  （文档）

• 韵部：-aʊ.ə(ɹ), -aʊə(ɹ)
• 断字：pow‧er

名词

power (可数 和 不可数, 复数 powers)

1. 能力
   • 2018, Marilyn McCord Adams, Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God (page 74)

     If it is spirits who have power to suffer, it seems they would also have active powers to think and will.

2. (社会学) 影响力，势力
   1. (可数) 影响力，控制力
      • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 卷 III, London: A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, book ii:

        An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.

      • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 卷 III, London: A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, book iii:

        Thwackum, on the contrary, maintained that the human mind, since the fall, was nothing but a sink of iniquity, till purified and redeemed by grace. […] The favourite phrase of the former, was the natural beauty of virtue; that of the latter, was the divine power of grace.

      • 1913, Robert Barr, 章号 4, 出自 Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[1]:

        “ […] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]”

        （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

      • 1998, Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

        Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present.

   2. 权力，势力
      • 1949, Eric Blair, aka George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

        The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. [...] We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

      • 2005, Columbia Law Review, April

        In the face of expanding federal power, California in particular struggled to maintain control over its Chinese population.

      • 2013 8月 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, 出自 The Economist, 卷 408, 期 8848:

        It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.

        （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

   3. (转喻义，主要用复数) 政权，当局

      近义词： powers that be

   4. (转喻义) 影响力巨大的集体，如强国，大型企业等
      • 2013 8月 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, 出自 The Guardian Weekly, 卷 189, 期 10，页号 8:

        Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.

        （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

3. (物理学，不可数) 效率，效果
   1. 力量

      He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.

      他需要很大力量才能将球打出体育馆。

   2. 电力

      After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days.

      输电塔塌了以后，这个镇子已经停电好几天了。

      • 1913, Robert Barr, 章号 4, 出自 Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[2]:

        “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up. […] You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. […]”

        （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

      • 2013 7月 20, “Out of the gloom”, 出自 The Economist, 卷 408, 期 8845:

        [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

        （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

   3. （电的）功率
   4. (透镜等的) 放大倍数

      We need a microscope with higher power.

      我们需要一个倍数更高的显微镜。

4. (口语，过时) 大量
   • Template:RQ:Holinshed Chronicles

     The threatning words of duke Robert comming at the last to king Henries eares, caused him foorthwith to conceiue verie sore displeasure against a power of men sent into Normandie.

   • 1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It:

     Don't you mind my snuffling a little—becuz we're in a power of trouble.

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

5. (机械的) 拉力，牵引力等；力量
6. (物理学，机械) 功率
7. (数学)
   1. 幂
   2. (集合论) （集合的）势
   3. (统计学) 统计功效
8. (圣经，复数) 能天使

近义词

• aptitude
• arm
• authority
• capability
• capacity
• clout
• command
• competence
• competency
• control
• dominion
• energy
• force
• grip
• hold
• influence
• main
• mastery
• might
• muscle
• potency
• pull
• sinew
• strength
• sway
• vigor
• wald
• weight

 

反义词

• impotence
• weakness

下义词

• atomic power
• black power
• candlepower
• colonial power
• empower
• flower power
• gray power
• grey power
• hard power
• horsepower
• institutional power
• moral power
• nuclear power
• optical power
• personal power
• political power
• poor power
• running powers
• sea power
• social power
• soft power
• solar power
• superpower
• white power
• wind power

 

衍生词汇

• candlepower
• empower
• horsepower
• in power
• more power to someone, more power to your elbow
• power base
• power behind the throne
• power bottom
• power broker
• power cable
• power consumption
• power cord
• Power County
• power cut
• power failure
• power forward
• power jam
• power lead
• power of attorney
• power plant
• power projection
• power set
• power station
• power struggle
• power user
• power vacuum
• power-cycle
• power-egg
• power-operated
• powerful
• powerless
• powerlike
• powerplay, power play
• powers that be
• powersharing, power-sharing, power sharing
• powertrip, power-trip, power trip
• superpower
• will to power

 

相关词汇

• possible
• potent

派生语汇

• → 德语: Power
• → 威尔士语: pŵer

动词

power (第三人称单数简单现在时 powers, 现在分词 powering, 一般过去时及过去分词 powered)

1. (及物) 给...供电

   This CD player is powered by batteries.

   这台CD播放器是由电池供电的。

2. (及物) 猛击，猛踢
   • 2011 2月 1, Mandeep Sanghera, “Man Utd 3 - 1 Aston Villa”, 出自 BBC‎^[3]:

     United keeper Edwin van der Sar was the unlikely provider as his clearance found Rooney, who had got ahead of last defender Richard Dunne, and the forward brilliantly controlled a ball coming from over his shoulder before powering a shot past Brad Friedel.

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

3. 促进，驱动
   • 2017 4月 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, 出自 the Guardian‎^[4]:

     Abdul Sattar Edhi came to Karachi as a poor man from an Indian village in 1947. Starting with a small pharmacy tent, his work rapidly expanded, powered by donations from ordinary citizens.

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

衍生词汇

• power down
• power up
• empower

形容词

power (比较级 more power, 最高级 most power)

1. (新加坡，口语) 很棒的
   • 2001, Thian, Makan Time‎^[5]:

     Check out the POWER Mee Rebus & Lontong in this newly established Nasi Padang coffee shop at Market Street Carpark.

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

   • 2005, Bayya, Bayya Eats ... and Other Stuff‎^[6]:

     Their performance is very the Power!

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

   • 2010, Caihong Lim & Kesheng Lim, Footprints All Over: Love, Happiness,Joy‎^[7]:

     His hokkien is damn power lah!

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

   • 2015, SGMOJI, Your Ultimate Guide to Locally-Grown Emojis‎^[8]:

     Eh his soccer skills damn power one.

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

延伸阅读

• OneLook 在线词典 上有关 power 的释义

异序词

• powre

德语

词源 1

源自法语 pauvre，源自拉丁语 pauper。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈpoːvər/, [ˈpoːvɐ]
• 断字：po‧wer

形容词

power (强变化主格阳性单数 powerer, 比较级 powerer, 最高级 am powersten)

1. (方言，非正式) 可悲的

变格

power的原级

性&数		单数			复数
		阳性	阴性	中性	任何词性
表语		er ist power	sie ist power	es ist power	sie sind power
强变化 （无冠词）	主格	powerer	powere	poweres	powere
	属格	poweren	powerer	poweren	powerer
	与格	powerem	powerer	powerem	poweren
	宾格	poweren	powere	poweres	powere
弱变化 （带定冠词）	主格	der powere	die powere	das powere	die poweren
	属格	des poweren	der poweren	des poweren	der poweren
	与格	dem poweren	der poweren	dem poweren	den poweren
	宾格	den poweren	die powere	das powere	die poweren
混合变化 （带不定冠词）	主格	ein powerer	eine powere	ein poweres	(keine) poweren
	属格	eines poweren	einer poweren	eines poweren	(keiner) poweren
	与格	einem poweren	einer poweren	einem poweren	(keinen) poweren
	宾格	einen poweren	eine powere	ein poweres	(keine) poweren

power的比较级

性&数		单数			复数
		阳性	阴性	中性	任何词性
表语		er ist powerer	sie ist powerer	es ist powerer	sie sind powerer
强变化 （无冠词）	主格	powererer	powerere	powereres	powerere
	属格	powereren	powererer	powereren	powererer
	与格	powererem	powererer	powererem	powereren
	宾格	powereren	powerere	powereres	powerere
弱变化 （带定冠词）	主格	der powerere	die powerere	das powerere	die powereren
	属格	des powereren	der powereren	des powereren	der powereren
	与格	dem powereren	der powereren	dem powereren	den powereren
	宾格	den powereren	die powerere	das powerere	die powereren
混合变化 （带不定冠词）	主格	ein powererer	eine powerere	ein powereres	(keine) powereren
	属格	eines powereren	einer powereren	eines powereren	(keiner) powereren
	与格	einem powereren	einer powereren	einem powereren	(keinen) powereren
	宾格	einen powereren	eine powerere	ein powereres	(keine) powereren

power的最高级

性&数		单数			复数
		阳性	阴性	中性	任何词性
表语		er ist am powersten	sie ist am powersten	es ist am powersten	sie sind am powersten
强变化 （无冠词）	主格	powerster	powerste	powerstes	powerste
	属格	powersten	powerster	powersten	powerster
	与格	powerstem	powerster	powerstem	powersten
	宾格	powersten	powerste	powerstes	powerste
弱变化 （带定冠词）	主格	der powerste	die powerste	das powerste	die powersten
	属格	des powersten	der powersten	des powersten	der powersten
	与格	dem powersten	der powersten	dem powersten	den powersten
	宾格	den powersten	die powerste	das powerste	die powersten
混合变化 （带不定冠词）	主格	ein powerster	eine powerste	ein powerstes	(keine) powersten
	属格	eines powersten	einer powersten	eines powersten	(keiner) powersten
	与格	einem powersten	einer powersten	einem powersten	(keinen) powersten
	宾格	einen powersten	eine powerste	ein powerstes	(keine) powersten

词源 2

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈpaʊ̯ər/, [ˈpaʊ̯ɐ]
• 同音词：Power

动词

power

1. powern 的单数命令式
2. (口语) powern 的第一人称单数现在时

延伸阅读

• “power”在《杜登线上辞典》上的解释