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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What power there must be in the petitions put up by such hearts; how pure the fervor that bears their souls to Heaven in prayer!What exquisite joy they would find in self-sacrifice!What a pang for his mother's heart if she could not send him all that he asked for!And this noble affection, these sacrifices made at such terrible cost, were to serve as the ladder by which he meant to climb to Delphine de Nucingen.
-- His plain good sense led him to accept the position of President of the Section, so as to secure for his business the protection of those in power at that dangerous epoch.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever.
-- At that age I became acquainted with the celebrated poets of our own country; but it was only when it had ceased to be in my power to derive its most important benefits from such a conviction that I perceived the necessity of becoming acquainted with more languages than that of my native country.
-- The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions seem still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth.
-- I believe it to be an intuitive dis-cernment, a quick but never-failing power of judgment, a penetration into the causes of things, unequalled for clear-ness and precision; add to this a facility of expression and a 21voice whose varied intonations are soul-subduing music.
-- My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett had made her plans to spend Christmas at Tara, but after Ashley's telegram came no power on earth, noteven a direct command from the disappointed Ellen, could drag her away from Atlanta.
-- The muscles of his big body rippled against his well-tailored clothes, as he got in beside her, and, as always, thesense of his great physical power struck her like a blow.
-- Scarlett saw her mother as she must have been in those last days, a thin power of strengthin Tara, nursing, working, doing without sleep and food that the others might rest and eat.
-- Merely holding herself erect required an effort of will power and shetalked as briefly as possible, dispensing with the usual forms of courtesy her mother had always taught her to use withnegroes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gave me power to keep them back and to look at her: so, she gave a contemptuous toss--but with a sense, I thought, of having made too sure that I was so wounded--and left me.
-- But I saw him collapse as his master rubbed me out with his hands, and my first decided experience of the stupendous power of money was, that it had morally laid upon his back Trabb's boy.
-- Both Mr. and Mrs. Pocket had such a noticeable air of being in somebody else's hands, that I wondered who really was in possession of the house and let them live there, until I found this unknown power to be the servants.
-- "There's power here," said Mr. Jaggers, coolly tracing out the sinews with his forefinger.
-- "Very few men have the power of wrist that this woman has.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she had three great crowns on her head, and around her stood all the pomp and power of the Church.
-- It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world.
-- Look, do you see that large cauldron of water which I am obliged to keep on the fire!As soon as they have 134 Grimms' Fairy Talesyou in their power they will kill you without mercy, and cook and eat you, for they are eaters of men.
-- Then an angel from heaven came to her and said: 'Be at rest, you shall have a son with the power of wishing, so that whatsoever in the world he wishes for, that shall he have.'
-- Then came the old cook, who knew that the child had the power of wishing, and stole it away, and he took a hen, and cut it in pieces, and dropped some of its blood on the queen's apron and on her dress.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce ev-ery thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memo-ry; although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species.
-- When I formerly hinted to you something of this in a letter, you were pleased to answer that you were afraid of giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the press, and apt not only to interpret, but to pun-ish every thing which looked like an innuendo (as I think you call it).
-- We compute the Tramecksan, or high heels, to exceed us in number; but the power is wholly on our side.
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