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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They that dwelt about Percote and Practius, with Ses-tos, Abydos, and Arisbe these were led by Asius, son of Hyrtacus, a brave commander Asius, the son of Hyrtacus, whom his powerful dark bay steeds, of the breed that comes from the river Selleis, had brought from Arisbe.
-- A god less powerful than yourself might be alarmed at what they are doing, but your fame reaches as far as dawn itself.
-- Then he went to rouse his brother, who was by far the most powerful of the Achaeans, and was honoured by the people as though he were a god.
-- I know no prophesyings which I am heeding, nor has my mother told me anything from the mouth of Jove, but I am cut to the very heart that one of my own rank should dare to rob me because he is more powerful than I am.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The news had been brought, toward the decline of a day in midsummer, by an Indian runner, who also bore an urgent request from Munro, the commander of a work on the shore of the 'holy lake,' for a speedy and powerful reinforcement.
-- Receiving no reply to this extraordinary appeal, which in truth, as it was delivered with the vigor of full and so-norous tones, merited some sort of notice, he who had thus sung forth the language of the holy book turned to the si-lent figure to whom he had unwittingly addressed himself, and found a new and more powerful subject of admiration in the object that encountered his gaze.
-- * In the state of Rhode Island there is a bay called Narra-gansett, so named after a powerful tribe of Indians, which formerly dwelt on its banks.
-- Alice made no very powerful effort to control her merriment; and even the dark, thoughtful eye of Cora light-ed with a humor that it would seem, the habit, rather than the nature, of its mistress repressed.
-- Yielding to his powerful interest in the subject, and impatient of a delay that seemed fraught with so much additional danger, Heyward drew still nigher to the dusky group, with an intention of making his offers of compensa-tion more definite, when the white man, motioning with his hand, as if he conceded the disputed point, turned away, saying in a sort of soliloquy, and in the English tongue: 'Uncas is right!it would not be the act of men to leave such harmless things to their fate, even though it breaks up the harboring place forever.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He appeared to be a horse-man of large dimensions, and mounted on a black horse of powerful frame.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But how strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to his own ruin, perhaps, and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him; and yet no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till at last, conquered, they have abandoned the joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister.
-- "He was a powerful fellow, Tough Bill, but he didn't quite like the look of Charlie, so he began cursing him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Learned, clear-headed, and practical, he fulfilled in all emergencies those three conditions which united ought to insure human success activity of mind and body, impetuous wishes, and powerful will.
-- On the left, the sight extended several miles to the north; but, on the northwest, at the point occupied by the explorers, it was cut short by the ridge of a fantastically-shaped spur, which formed a powerful support of the central cone.
-- In truth, Neb had found an excellent name, for this cape was very like the powerful claw of the fantastic animal which this singularly-shaped island represented.
-- During these excursions, which were not extended far from the brick-field, the hunters could discern the recent passage of animals of a large size, armed with powerful claws, but they could not recognize the species.
-- They were now outside the forest, at the beginning of the powerful spurs which supported Mount Franklin towa rds the west.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was perhaps not very unreasonable to suspect from what had already passed, that Mr Swiveller was not quite recovered from the effects of the powerful sunlight to which he had made allusion; but if no such suspicion had been awakened by his speech, his wiry hair, dull eyes, and sallow face would still have been strong witnesses against him.
-- Mr Swiveller appeared to think that they implied some mental struggle consequent upon the powerful effect of his address, for he poked his friend with his cane and whispered his conviction that he had administered 'a clincher,' and that he expected a commission on the profits.
-- Having dealt out these admonitions, the ladies fell to a more powerful assault than they had yet made upon the mixed tea, new bread, fresh butter, shrimps, and watercresses, and said that their vexation was so great to see her going on like that, that they could hardly bring themselves to eat a single morsel.
-- 'May the present moment,' said Dick, sticking his fork into a large carbuncular potato, 'be the worst of our lives!I like the plan of sending 'em with the peel on; there's a charm in drawing a potato from its native element (if I may so express it) to which the rich and powerful are strangers.
-- Once investing the dwarf with a design of his own in abetting them, which the attainment of their purpose would serve, it was easy to believe him sincere and hearty in the cause; and as there could be no doubt of his proving a powerful and useful auxiliary, Trent determined to accept his invitation and go to his house that night, and if what he said and did confirmed him in the impression he had formed, to let him share the labour of their plan, but not the profit.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus Nekhludoff felt the foulness of his act, and he also felt the powerful hand of the master, but did not yet understand the significance of his act, did not recognize the master.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had a line about my waist and followed obediently after the sea-cook, who held the loose end of the rope, now in his free hand, now between his powerful teeth.
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