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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The minute he begins to see that other folks appreciate and reward your skill, that minute he must begin to feel your power and so to get well.
-- In the presence of a Napoleon like Clif and a Gladstone like George F. Babbitt, Martin perceived his own lack of power and business skill, and when he had returned to Mohalis he was restless.
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：
-- Almost every criminal is subject to a failure of will and rea-soning power by a childish and phenomenal heedlessness, at the very instant when prudence and caution are most es-sential.
-- It was his conviction that this eclipse of reason and failure of will power attacked a man like a disease, devel-oped gradually and reached its highest point just before the perpetration of the crime, continued with equal violence at the moment of the crime and for longer or shorter time after, according to the individual case, and then passed off like any other disease.
-- But he had so completely lost all power of reflection that he walked straight to the door and opened it.
-- The conviction that all his faculties, even memory, and the simplest power of reflection were failing him, began to be an insufferable torture.
-- He must clear everything up while he still had some strength, some reasoning power left him芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This may be fancy, though I think the memory of most of us can gofarther back into such times than many of us suppose; just as Ibelieve the power of observation in numbers of very youngchildren to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy.
-- I'll do the best in my power for you.
-- He was a person of great power in my eyes; that was, of course,the reason of my mind running on him.
-- 'If you think, Steerforth,' said Mr. Mell, 'that I am not acquaintedwith the power you can establish over any mind here'- he laid hishand, without considering what he did (as I supposed), upon myhead- 'or that I have not observed you, within a few minutes,urging your juniors on to every sort of outrage against me, you aremistaken.'
-- How much I suffered, it is, as Ihave said already, utterly beyond my power to tell.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her early attachment to herself was very amiable; and her inclination for good company, and power of appreciat-ing what was elegant and clever, shewed that there was no want of taste, though strength of understanding must not be expected.
-- Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beau-ty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being ad-mired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.
-- Man's boasted power and freedom, all are flown; Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave, And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone.
-- Man's boasted power and freedom, all are flown.
-- It was no longer in Emma's power to superintend his happiness or quicken his measures.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tune was not floating unhindered into the open air: it seemed muffled in some way, and was altogether too curtailed in power to spread high or wide.
-- Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.
-- Bathsheba paused, as if about to refuse a reply, but the temptation to say yes, since it was really in her power was irresistible by aspiring virginity, in spite of her spleen at having been published as old.
-- The numerous evidences of her power to attract were only thrown into greater relief by a marked exception.
-- The full power of the clear heaven was not equal to that of a cloudy sky at noon, when Boldwood arose and dressed himself.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rastignac was impressed with a sense of the formidable power of the lackey who can accuse or condemn his masters by a word; he coolly opened the door by which the man had just entered the ante-chamber, meaning, no doubt, to show these insolent flunkeys that he was familiar with the house; but he found that he had thoughtlessly precipitated himself into a small room full of dressers, where lamps were standing, and hot-water pipes, on which towels were being dried; a dark passage and a back staircase lay beyond it.
-- The mighty name had all the power of a fairy's wand; those closed compartments in the southern brain flew open again; Rastignac's carefully drilled faculties returned.
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