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prowess

/prou-is/US // ˈpraʊ ɪs //UK // (ˈpraʊɪs) //

威力,力量,能力,厉害

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : exceptional valor, bravery, or ability, especially in combat or battle.
    • : exceptional or superior ability, skill, or strength: his prowess as a public speaker.
    • : a valiant or daring deed.

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Examples

  • With the recent explosion in computing hardware prowess and AI, we’ve been able to somewhat adequately duplicate our core senses with machines.

  • Plus, if you’d spent a summer as a sous-chef, you would try to find a way to casually demonstrate your cooking prowess, too.

  • In theory, the Brooklyn Nets have a Big Three now, one of the most phenomenal mergers of individual offensive prowess the NBA has ever seen.

  • That legal prowess, coupled with an activist’s spirit, has bolstered his reputation since he entered Maryland politics roughly 15 years ago.

  • Hyundai plans to implement its newly-acquired robotics prowess for everything from service and logistics robots to autonomous driving and smart factories.

  • And, in a gratuitous show of homicidal prowess, Moses kills two assassins he meets while wandering in the desert of Sinai.

  • She embodied heroin chic, and her vodka-chugging prowess earned her the nickname ‘The Tank.’

  • Displaying equal prowess with their words, in the end it came down to the crowd, whose energy Arsonal channeled with precision.

  • Guzmán essentially leveraged violence, political influence, and financial prowess to gain power and market share.

  • As narcocorridos extolled his prowess, he built his business empire.

  • This story was a favourite with Abershawe: it afforded him a reliable criterion of his unholy prowess.

  • He could fence, ride, and carry off the prize in games requiring physical prowess as well as mental fitness.

  • So the Queen bade him farewell, saying that wheresoever he might chance to tarry there would all deem him a man of prowess.

  • With eagerness sought Thorir to urge him on to make this journey, praising him and his prowess most exceedingly.

  • These Indians seem to hold in exalted estimation the martial prowess of the Americans.