power是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 力， 精力； 功率， 电力； (数学) 幂； 权力， 势力，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：
-- If each smooth tile had been a blank at first, with power to shape some picture on its surface from the disjointed fragments of his thoughts, there would have been a copy of old Marley's head on every one.
-- The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.
-- He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a plea-sure or a toil.
-- Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count them up: what then.
-- And perhaps it was the pleasure the good Spirit had in showing off this power of his, or else it was his own kind, generous, hearty nature, and his sympathy with all poor men, that led him straight to Scrooge's clerk's; for there he went, and took Scrooge with him, holding to his robe; and on the threshold of the door the Spirit smiled, and stopped to bless Bob Cratchit's dwelling with the sprinkling of his torch.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now that the cloud settled on Saint Antoine, which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred countenance, the darkness of it was heavy-cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance, and want, were the lords in waiting on the saintly pres-ence-nobles of great power all of them; but, most especially the last.
-- Only his daughter had the power of charming this black brooding from his mind.
-- Not absolutely always, for she could recall some occasions on which her power had failed; but they were few and slight, and she believed them over.
-- The more business he got, the greater his power seemed to grow of getting at its pith and marrow; and however late at night he sat carousing with Sydney Carton, he always had his points at his fingers' ends in the morning.
-- 145VII Monseigneur in Town onseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the MCourt, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris.
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：
-- By the magic power of the shoes he was carried back to the times of King Hans; on which account his foot very naturally sank in the mud and puddles of the street, there having been in those days no pavement in Copenhagen.
-- exclaimed he in agony; and while he so thought, all his ideas and feelings of overpower-ing dizziness, against which he struggled with the utmost power of desperation, encompassed him with renewed force.
-- It related the mythus of its birth, told of the power of the sun-light that spread out its delicate leaves, and forced them to impreg-nate the air with their incense and then he thought of the manifold struggles of life, which in like manner awaken the budding flowers of feeling in our bosom.
-- I would behold magnificent Switzerland; I would travel to Italy, and '60 Andersen's Fairy Tales It was a good thing that the power of the Galoshes worked as instantaneously as lightning in a powder-magazine would do, otherwise the poor man with his overstrained wishes would have travelled about the world too much for himself as well as for us.
-- One day he was in a very good humor, for he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was re-flected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know that he applies all the power of his intellect to justify existing evils."
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch, a man of great power in the world of politics, felt himself helpless in this.
-- Some higher power might do it."
-- "Oh, well, the higher power of Ryabinin can.
-- "In general terms, he'll say in his official manner, and with all distinctness and precision, that he cannot let me go, but will take all measures in his power to prevent scandal.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "These sacrifices do not occur in the larger portion of India," replied Sir Francis; "but we have no power over these savage territories, and especially here in Bundelcund.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was disconcerting to Martin that she should seem to think that she was a superior person quite as much as himself, but he was even more disconcerted when she bubbled: "At the same time, Martin, one does have to be practical, doesn't one!Think how much more money--no, I mean how much more social position and power for doing good a successful doctor has than one of these scientists that just putter, and don't know what's going on in the world.
-- "Probably not--and until some genius like yourself, Arrowsmith, can herd together a few hundred people with exactly identical cases of erysipelas, it probably never will be tried!Meanwhile I trust that you other gentlemen, who perhaps lack Mr. Arrowsmith's profound scientific attainments and the power to use such handy technical terms as 'control,' will, merely on my feeble advice, continue to use ichthyol!"
-- She had an immense power of accepting people as they were.
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