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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, even if it is, the con-sciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.'
-- The more you love and trust Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom.
-- It keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While he was speaking these words, the howling of the shrieking, slanting storm without seemed to add new power to the preacher, who, when describing Jonah's sea-storm, seemed tossed by a storm himself.
-- But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen.
-- Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back.
-- But he who in the rightly regal and intelligent spirit presides over his own private dinner-table of invited guests, that man's unchallenged power and dominion of individual influence for the time; that man's royalty of state transcends Belshazzar's, for Belshazzar was not the greatest.
-- Yet without power to kill, or change, or shun the fact; he likewise knew that to mankind he did long dissemble; in some sort, did still.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What an excellent example of the power of dress, young Oliver Twist was!Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar; it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have assigned him his proper station in society.
-- To do him justice, he was, as far as his power went--it was not very extensive--kindly disposed towards the boy; perhaps, because it was his interest to be so; perhaps, because his wife disliked him.
-- Although the presiding Genii in such an office as this, exercise a summary and arbitrary power over the liberties, the good name, the character, almost the lives, of Her Majesty's subjects, expecially of the poorer class; and although, within such walls, enough fantastic tricks are daily played to make the angels blind with weeping; they are closed to the public, save through the medium of the daily press.
-- Never mind how he came there; it's quite enough for my power over him that he was in a robbery; that's all I want.
-- Oliver could see that he had some power over the girl's better feelings, and, for an instant, thought of appealing to her compassion for his helpless state.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were in fact very fine ladies; not deficient in good humour when they were pleased, nor in the power of making themselves agree-able when they chose it, but proud and conceited.
-- The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any atten-tion to the imperfection of the performance.
-- Elizabeth listened with delight to the happy, though modest hopes which Jane entertained of Mr. Bingley's re-gard, and said all in her power to heighten her confidence in it.
-- It will be in my power to assure him that her ladyship was quite well yesterday se'nnight.'
-- She was teased by Mr. Collins, who continued most persever-ingly by her side, and though he could not prevail on her to dance with him again, put it out of her power to dance with others.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But my ill fate pushed me on now with an obstinacy that nothing could resist; and though I had several times loud calls from my reason and my more composed judgment to go home, yet I had no power to do it.
-- Even the earth-quake, though nothing could be more terrible in its nature, or more immediately directing to the invisible Power which alone directs such things, yet no sooner was the first fright over, but the impression it had made went off also.
-- Well, but then it came on strangely, if God has made all these things, He guides and governs them all, and all things that concern them; for the Power that could make all things must certainly have power to guide and direct them.
-- But still plucking up my spirits as well as I could, and encouraging myself a little with considering that the power and presence of God was everywhere, and was able to protect me, I stepped forward again, and by the light of the firebrand, holding it up a little over my head, I saw lying on the ground a monstrous, frightful old he-goat, just making his will, as we say, and gasping for life, and, dy-ing, indeed, of mere old age.
-- There are some secret springs in the affections which, when they are set a-going by some object in view, or, though not in view, yet rendered present to the mind by the power of imagination, that motion carries out the soul, by its im-petuosity, to such violent, eager embracings of the object, that the absence of it is insupportable.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself or his son; but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most needed a provision by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods.
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