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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Evidently motive power lay in the cloud itself, for there was not a breath of wind.
-- He went down into the hold, inspected the screw department and the engine-room, examining the engine thoroughly, and inquired about its power and consumption.
-- May heaven be our guide, and keep us from ever being thrown within the power of those fierce natives!"
-- He was a man of energy, till now happy and powerful, and deprived in a moment of power and happiness.
-- No European power had thought of taking possession of this archipelago, which commands the whole Pacific Ocean.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
-- This matter cuts very deep, and though I have not finally made up my mind whether it is a benevolent or a malevolent agency which is in touch with us, I am conscious always of power and de-sign.
-- 'It puts him in the power of the cabman.'
-- 'A glance at our friend here reveals the rounded head of the Celt, which carries inside it the Celtic enthusiasm and power of attachment.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. John Dashwood had not the strong feelings of the rest of the family; but he was affected by a recommendation of such a nature at such a time, and he promised to do every thing in his power to make them comfortable.
-- His father was rendered easy by such an assurance, and Mr. John Dashwood had then leisure to consider how much there might prudently be in his power to do for them.
-- "He did not stipulate for any particular sum, my dear Fanny; he only requested me, in general terms, to assist them, and make their situation more comfortable than it was in his power to do.
-- His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of observation and analysis.
-- She walked bravely forward, led by an honest desire to find employment and delayed at every step by the interest of the unfolding scene, and a sense of helplessness amid so much evidence of power and force which she did not understand.
-- She was too busy scrubbing the kitchen woodwork and calculating the purchasing power of eighty cents for Sunday's dinner.
-- Naturally timid in all things that related to her own advancement, and especially so when without power or resource, her craving for pleasure was so strong that it was the one stay of her nature.
-- It was something that was power in itself.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to any- body, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it.
-- I put down the needle and thread, and let on to be in- terested and I was, too and says: 'Three hundred dollars is a power of money.
-- The fifth night below St. Louis we had a big storm after midnight, with a power of thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in a solid sheet.
-- There was a power of style about her.
-- 'Why, Aunty, it cost us a power of work weeks of it hours and hours, every night, whilst you was all asleep.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When bad boys become good and kind, they have the power of making their homes gay and new with happiness."
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