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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man came forward immediately, hatchet in hand, and approaching him cautiously, with one powerful stroke cut off his tail.
-- Almost breathless with the swift motion, frozen with the cold air, which pierced them through, and blinded with the whirling snow, they gasped for breath, and became exhausted and nearly inanimate, only retaining their hold of the rocks by a powerful instinct of self-preservation.
-- He measured more than fifteen feet, and his powerful wings bore him along with scarcely the slightest effort, for it is the prerogative of large birds to fly with calm majesty, while insects have to beat their wings a thousand times a second.
-- The moment, therefore, that Thalcave got to a right distance, he flung his BOLAS with such a powerful hand, and so skillfully, that he caught the bird round the legs and paralyzed his efforts at once.
-- "Chiefs that were all powerful thirty years ago, before they were driven beyond the sierras.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, this puts a very powerful weapon into our hands.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Epanchin was surprised at the effect which the news from Moscow had upon the girls, and they were no less sur-prised that after solemnly remarking that her most striking characteristic was 'being mistaken in people' she should have troubled to obtain for the prince the favour and protec-tion of so powerful an old lady as the Princess Bielokonski.
-- Oh yes, and more powerful than ever!
-- Yes, the laws of selfpreservation and of self-destruction are equal-ly powerful in this world.
-- There must have been something stronger than the stake or the fire, or even than the habits of twenty years!There must have been an idea more powerful than all the calami-ties and sorrows of this world, famine or torture, leprosy or plague an idea which entered into the heart, directed and enlarged the springs of life, and made even that hell sup-portable to humanity!Show me a force, a power like that, in this our century of vices and railways!I might say, perhaps, in our century of steamboats and railways, but I repeat in our century of vices and railways, because I am drunk but truthful!Show me a single idea which unites men nowa-days with half the strength that it had in those centuries, and dare to maintain that the 'springs of life' have not been polluted and weakened beneath this 'star,' beneath this net-work in which men are entangled!Don't talk to me about your prosperity, your riches, the rarity of famine, the rapid-ity of the means of transport!There is more of riches, but less of force.
-- It was the great and powerful angel in the Apocalypse.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She said no more, and they went down the other dance and parted in silence; and on each side dissatisfied, though not to an equal degree, for in Darcy's breast there was a tolerable powerful feeling towards her, which soon procured her pardon, and directed all his anger against another.
-- And in the wretched state of his own finances, there was a very powerful motive for secrecy, in addition to his fear of discovery by Lydia's relations, for it had just transpired that he had left gaming debts behind him to a very considerable amount.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the ship lay almost two leagues from the shore, we had a full view of them as the came, and a plain sight even of their faces; because the tide having set them a little to the east of the other boat, they rowed up under shore, to come to the same place where the other had landed, and where the boat lay; by this means, I say, we had a full view of them, and the captain knew the persons and characters of all the men in the boat, of whom, he said, there were three very honest fellows, who, he was sure, were led into this con-spiracy by the rest, being over-powered and frightened; but that as for the boatswain, who it seems was the chief officer among them, and all the rest, they were as outrageous as any of the ship's crew, and were no doubt made desperate in their new enterprise; and terribly apprehensive he was that they would be too powerful for us.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lucy first put an end to it by saying in a lower tone, though Marianne was then giving them the powerful protection of a very magnificent concerto "I will honestly tell you of one scheme which has lately come into my head, for bringing matters to bear; indeed I am bound to let you into the secret, for you are a party concerned.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an important thing to her to hear one so well-positioned and powerful speaking in this manner.
-- Her longing for consideration was not sufficiently powerful to move her to demand it.
-- He was like a vessel, powerful and dangerous, but rolling and floundering without sail.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then they tucked the old man into a beauti- ful room, which was the spare room, and in the night some time he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stan-chion and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod, and clumb back again and had a good old time; and towards daylight he crawled out again, drunk as a fiddler, and rolled off the porch and broke his left arm in two places, and was most froze to death when somebody found him after sun-up.
-- I was powerful lazy and comfortable didn't want to get up and cook breakfast.
-- I 'uz powerful sorry you's killed, Huck, but I ain't no mo' now.
-- Jim whispered and said he was feeling powerful sick, and told me to come along.
-- It did seem a powerful long time before Jim's light showed up; and when it did show it looked like it was a thousand mile off.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Take pity on a poor boy who is being chased by two Assass--" He did not finish, for two powerful hands grasped him by the neck and the same two horrible voices growled threateningly: "Now we have you!"
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