powerful是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 强大的, 有力的, 有权的,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Let me hear another sound from you,' said Scrooge, 'and you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation!You're quite a powerful speaker, sir,' he added, turning to his neph-ew.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- So powerful is use, and so desirable to be good use in the beginning.
-- The bronze face, the shaggy black hair and beard, the coarse woollen red cap, the rough medley dress of home-spun stuff and hairy skins of beasts, the powerful frame attenuated by spare living, and the sullen and desper-ate compression of the lips in sleep, inspired the mender of roads with awe.
-- Little Lucie sat by her grandfather with her hands clasped through his arm: and he, in a tone not rising much above a whisper, began to tell her a story of a great and powerful Fairy who had opened a prison-wall and let out a captive who had once done the Fairy a service.
-- Change these back again to what they were, thou powerful enchanter, Time, and they shall be seen to be the carriages of absolute mon-archs, the equipages of feudal nobles, the toilettes of flaring Jezebels, the churches that are not my father's house but 529dens of thieves, the huts of millions of starving peasants!
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The largest was many miles in extent; all were lighted up by the powerful Aurora Borealis, and all were so large, so empty, so icy cold, and so resplendent!Mirth never reigned there; there was never even a little bear-ball, with the storm for music, while the polar bears went on their hindlegs and showed off their steps.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He was born in the midst of those who had been and are the powerful ones of this world.
-- She had never anticipated that the utterance of love would produce such a powerful effect on her.
-- The wind had been powerful on the steps, but on the platform, under the lee of the carriages, there was a lull.
-- You think it mean of me to count the trees in my forest, while you may Ryabinin a present of thirty thousand; but you get rents from your lands and I don't know what, while I don't and so I prize what's come to me from my ancestors or been won by hard work.... We are aristocrats, and not those who can only exist by favor of the powerful of this world, and who can be bought for twopence halfpenny."
-- No, what's wanted is a powerful party of independent men like you and me."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Two powerful locomotives, carrying nine cars of invited guests, amongst whom was Thomas C. Durant, vice-president of the road, stopped at this point; cheers were given, the Sioux and Pawnees performed an imitation Indian battle, fireworks were let off, and the first number of the Railway Pioneer was printed by a press brought on the train.
-- The whistle of the locomotive, more powerful than Amphion's lyre, was about to bid them rise from American soil.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Clif was sitting on the small of his back, shoeless feet upon the study table, reading a Sherlock Holmes story which rested on the powerful volume of Osler's Medicine which he considered himself to be reading.
-- Barney poured, from a bottle plainly marked Ginger Ale, two glasses of powerful and appalling raw whiskey, and Clif and Martin took them to the table in the corner.
-- The stink of cheap feeble cigarettes and cheap powerful cigars hovered about the table like a malign spirit; the floor was scattered with stubs, matches, old cards, and whisky bottles.
-- It had held a Glad-hand Week, when everybody was supposed to speak to at least three strangers daily, to the end that infuriated elderly traveling salesmen were back-slapped all day long by hearty and powerful unknown persons.
-- Chapter 23 It may have been a yearning to give one concentrated dose of inspiration so powerful that no citizen of Nautilus would ever again dare to be ill, or perhaps Dr. Pickerbaugh desired a little reasonable publicity for his congressional campaign, but certainly the Health Fair which the good man organized was overpowering.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the over-wrought and deranged nervous system.
-- These powerful omniscient cir-cles who despised everyone and showed everyone up had long inspired in him a peculiar but quite vague alarm.
-- But his speech produced a powerful effect.
-- Think what the passion for pro-paganda will bring some girls to!I, of course, threw it all on my destiny, posed as hungering and thirsting for light, and finally resorted to the most powerful weapon in the subjec-tion of the female heart, a weapon which never fails one.
-- On the contrary, she had her own ver-sion of her son's sudden departure; she told them with tears how he had come to say good-bye to her, hinting that she alone knew many mysterious and important facts, and that Rodya had many very powerful enemies, so that it was nec-essary for him to be in hiding.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I suspect the truth to be, that theinflu- ence of Agnes was upon me, undisturbed by the sight ofhim; and that it was the more powerful with me, because she hadso large a share in my thoughts and interest.
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