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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a serious thing to be in the power of this spiteful old busybody.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He admitted that he was to blame for all, but candidly confessed that he could not bring himself to feel any remorse for his original guilt towards herself, because he was a man of sensual passions which were inborn and ineradicable, and that he had no power over himself in this respect; but that he wished, seriously, to marry at last, and that the whole fate of the most desirable social union which he contemplated, was in her hands; in a word, he confided his all to her generosity of heart.
-- I always used to fall into a sort of torpid condition after such a series, and lost my memory almost entirely; and though I was not altogether without reason at such times, yet I had no logi-cal power of thought.
-- But in in-terpreting revelation I am the equal of anyone, great as he may be!Such is the power of the mind and the spirit.
-- There must have been something stronger than the stake or the fire, or even than the habits of twenty years!There must have been an idea more powerful than all the calami-ties and sorrows of this world, famine or torture, leprosy or plague an idea which entered into the heart, directed and enlarged the springs of life, and made even that hell sup-portable to humanity!Show me a force, a power like that, in this our century of vices and railways!I might say, perhaps, in our century of steamboats and railways, but I repeat in our century of vices and railways, because I am drunk but truthful!Show me a single idea which unites men nowa-days with half the strength that it had in those centuries, and dare to maintain that the 'springs of life' have not been polluted and weakened beneath this 'star,' beneath this net-work in which men are entangled!Don't talk to me about your prosperity, your riches, the rarity of famine, the rapid-ity of the means of transport!There is more of riches, but less of force.
-- 'I recognize no jurisdiction over myself, and I know that I am now beyond the power of laws and judges.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such is the will of Jove, who has laid many a proud city in the dust, as he will yet lay others, for his power is above all.
-- They robbed him of his divine power of song, and thenceforth he could strike the lyre no more.
-- We know how great your power is, neverthe-less we have compassion upon the Danaan warriors who are perishing and coming to a bad end.
-- Such is the will of Jove, who has laid many a proud city in the dust as he will yet lay oth-ers, for his power is above all.
-- 'My friends,' he cried, 'princes and counsellors of the Argives, all you who with Agamem-non and Menelaus drink at the public cost, and give orders each to his own people as Jove vouchsafes him power and glory, the fight is so thick about me that I cannot distinguish you severally; come on, therefore, every man unbidden, and think it shame that Patroclus should become meat and mor-sel for Trojan hounds.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not know what he would do, nor even what he had the power to do.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But (and it is a great evil) he is in the power of the Bandar-log, and they, because they live in trees, have no fear of any of our people.'
-- Where is the power that made your pride?
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The veteran Scotchman just named held the first, with a regiment of regulars and a few provincials; a force really by far too small to make head against the for-midable power that Montcalm was leading to the foot of his earthen mounds.
-- If he possessed the power to arrest any wandering eye when exhibiting the glories of his altitude on foot, his equestrian graces were still more likely to attract attention.
-- My charger is either a prey to the beasts of the for-est, or he sees his danger, without the power to avoid it.
-- For near a minute they stood looking one another in the eye, and gradually exerting the power of their muscles for the mastery.
-- Her hands were clasped before her in prayer, but instead of look-ing upward toward that power which alone could rescue them, her unconscious looks wandered to the countenance of Duncan with infantile dependency.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps Charles Strickland's power and originality would scarcely have sufficed to turn the scale if the remarkable mythopoeic faculty of mankind had not brushed aside with impatience a story which disappointed all its craving for the extraordinary.
-- I seemed to feel in him some vehement power that was struggling within him; it gave me the sensation of something very strong, overmastering, that held him, as it were, against his will.
-- He seems to me to be possessed by some power which is using him for its own ends, and in whose hold he is as helpless as a fly in a spider's web.
-- Perhaps Stroeve's passion excited without satisfying that part of her nature, and she hated Strickland because she felt in him the power to give her what she needed.
-- He seemed to have lost all power of will; he was like an obedient child.
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