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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As these were made, they were hung upon an arm of the pitman who had last come up, with instructions how to use them: and as he stood, shown by the light he carried, leaning his powerful loose hand upon one of the poles, and sometimes glancing down the pit, and sometimes glancing round upon the people, he was not the least conspicuous figure in the scene.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To tell the honest truth, when the right word would not come, it was generally replaced by a very powerful adjective.
-- With these words Professor Hardwigg took off his spectacles, and, taking a powerful magnifying glass, examined the book carefully.
-- There was one objection to the house, and that was, the very powerful odor of dried fish, of macerated meat, and of sour milk, which three fragrances combined did not at all suit my olfactory nerves.
-- There is nothing more powerful than this attraction towards an abyss.
-- I was about to fall headlong into the gaping well, when I was drawn back by a firm and powerful hand.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a question of will; a subtle, subtle, powerful emanation of will out of yourself brought back to you the mysterious nothingness of money a word on a bit of paper.
-- Old oak-trees stood around, grey, powerful trunks, rain-blackened, round and vital, throwing off reckless limbs.
-- He had become a practical man himself and an amazingly as-tute and powerful one, a master.
-- The trees stood like powerful beings, dim, twilit, silent and alive.
-- The powerful old castle was a ruin, yet it hung its bulk on the low sky-line, over the black plumes and the white that waved on the damp air below.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just as the big ship in tow gets the credit, with most spectators, of being the powerful object, so the Patriarch usually seemed to have said himself whatever Pancks said for him.
-- When the latter was powerful with her, she usually sent up secret messages importing that she was not in parlour condition as to her attire, and that she solicited a sight of 'her child' in the kitchen; there, she would bless her child's face, and bless her child's heart, and hug her child, in a medley of tears and congratulations, chopping-boards, rolling-pins, and pie-crust, with the tenderness of an old attached servant, which is a very pretty tenderness indeed.
-- 'Be as rich as you can, sir,' Pancks adjured him with a powerful concentration of all his energies on the advice.
-- (In his agitation Young John adopted his mother's powerful construction of sentences.)
-- Mr F.'s Aunt was so stiffened that she had the appearance of being past bending by any means short of powerful mechanical pressure.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had never read Sartor Resartus, but she had a womanly in-stinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than commonly powerful and alert, to seek to hamstring him, as it were, by sundering or maiming his gigantic tail-tendon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Noah, with well-affected dismay: and in tones so loud and agitated, that they not only caught the ear of Mr. Bumble himself, who happened to be hard by, but alarmed him so much that he rushed into the yard without his cocked hat,--which is a very curious and remarkable circumstance: as showing that even a beadle, acted upon a sudden and powerful impulse, may be afflicted with a momentary visitation of loss of self-possession, and forgetfulness of personal dignity.
-- Dogs are not generally apt to revenge injuries inflicted upon them by their masters; but Mr. Sikes's dog, having faults of temper in common with his owner, and labouring, perhaps, at this moment, under a powerful sense of injury, made no more ado but at once fixed his teeth in one of the half-boots.
-- cried Oliver, struggling in the man's powerful grasp.
-- All the honours to which great talents and powerful connections can help men in public life, are in store for you.
-- It so happened, however: as it will happen very often, when men fall into company under such circumstances: that Mr. Bumble felt, every now and then, a powerful inducement, which he could not resist, to steal a look at the stranger: and that whenever he did so, he withdrew his eyes, in some confusion, to find that the stranger was at that moment stealing a look at him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not to appear to disgrace his family, to degen-erate from the popular qualities, or lose the influence of the Pemberley House, is a powerful motive.
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