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powerfully

/pou-er-fuhl/US // ˈpaʊ ər fəl //UK // (ˈpaʊəfʊl) //

有力地,强有力地,强大的,强有力

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having or exerting great power or force.
    • : physically strong, as a person: a large, powerful athlete.
    • : producing great physical effects, as a machine or a blow.
    • : potent; efficacious: a powerful drug.
    • : having great effectiveness, as a speech, speaker, description, reason, etc.
    • : having great power, authority, or influence; mighty: a powerful nation.
    • : Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. great in number or amount: a powerful lot of money.

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Examples

  • The Senate, by happenstance rather than design, has evolved into what Jonathan Chait aptly terms “the most powerful source of institutional racism in American life.”

  • The Paleogene began with the detonation of an asteroid a billion times more powerful than a nuclear bomb, wiping out 75 percent of all plants and animals on the planet.

  • Clearly, it’s a powerful way to help rescue restaurants and bars.

  • This summer Honeywell revealed a quantum computer that it claimed was more powerful than any other, as measured by an IBM’s own preferred quantum volume metric.

  • Then I carefully opened the trap and watched as the mole used its powerful front legs—as if doing a breaststroke—to burrow down into the leaves and dirt, disappearing in only a few seconds.

  • They carved a refuge out of the wilderness and then, in 200 years, built it into the most powerful nation on earth.

  • In memoriam, Parker Molloy writes a powerful letter to Leelah.

  • It might be the most powerful affirmation, and perhaps even a feminist or political statement, from any public person this year.

  • It was fearless and raunchy and fun and ridiculous and weird and feminist and powerful.

  • But taking such action puts them at odds with the most powerful and best-organized segment of their coalition.

  • Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.

  • European tobacco is lacking in flavor and is less powerful than the tobacco of America.

  • He had seen through a powerful naval glass some figures standing erect and silhouetted against the sky on the parapet.

  • But green Chartreuse unhappily is not innocent; it is more than a spirit, it is a powerful drug.

  • The trains were pulled up the incline at the Lickey by powerful stationary engines.