potent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 有力的, 有效的，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：
-- Barriers of fire are a potent preservation from wild beasts, but New Zealand has neither tiger, nor lion, nor bear, nor any wild animal, but the Maori adequately fills their place, and a fire would only have served to attract this two-footed jaguar.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another darkness was closing in as surely, when the church bells, then ringing pleasantly in many an airy steeple over France, should be melted into thundering cannon; when the military drums should be beating to drown a wretched voice, that night all potent as the voice of Power and Plenty, Freedom and Life.
-- Like 332 A tale of two citiesthe fabled rustic who raised the Devil with infinite pains, and was so terrified at the sight of him that he could ask the Enemy no question, but immediately fled; so, Monseigneur, after boldly reading the Lord's Prayer backwards for a great number of years, and performing many other potent spells for compelling the Evil One, no sooner beheld him in his terrors than he took to his noble heels.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sons, in short square-skirted coats, with rows of stupendous brass buttons, and their hair generally queued in the fash-ion of the times, especially if they could procure an eelskin for the purpose, it being esteemed throughout the country as a potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I tell you what, Steerforth,' said I, 'if your high spirits will listen tome-' 'They are potent spirits, and will do whatever you like,' heanswered, moving from the table to the fireside again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, that shrinking from having Miss Havisham and Estella discussed, which had come upon me in the beginning, grew much more potent as time went on.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet the black looks of her eyes made Gerald feel drowned in some potent darkness that almost frightened him.
-- To Gudrun, however, it was potent and half-repulsive.
-- She felt herself drawn out at evening into the main street of the town, that was uncreated and ugly, and yet surcharged with this same potent atmosphere of intense, dark callousness.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For,' said he, 'as flourishing a condition as we may appear to be in to- foreigners, we labour under two mighty evils: a violent faction at home, and the danger of an invasion, by a most potent enemy, from abroad.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Mr. Gradgrind, glancing at the potent Bounderby for assistance.
-- He next had recourse to the administration of potent restoratives, such as screwing the patient's thumbs, smiting her hands, abundantly watering her face, and inserting salt in her mouth.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She quivered again at the potent inexorable entry inside her, so strange and terrible.
-- The unspeakable beauty to the touch of the warm, living buttocks!The life within life, the sheer warm, potent loveliness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So rife and potent was the fever in Bleeding Heart Yard, that Mr Pancks's rent-days caused no interval in the patients.
-- Pressure came on, and you were done for!This consideration was very potent in many quarters, but nowhere more so than among the young clerks and partners who had never been in the slightest danger of overdoing it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxiliary.
-- Meantime, Ahab, out of hearing of his officers, having sided the furthest to windward, was still ranging ahead of the other boats; a circumstance bespeaking how potent a crew was pulling him.
-- He bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all hard things visible and invisible, never mind how knobby; as an ostrich of potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints.
-- Nevertheless, so potent an influence did this thing have on those seamen in the Pequod who came to the full knowledge of it, and by such a strange delicacy, to call it so, were they governed in this matter, that they kept the secret among themselves so that it never transpired abaft the Pequod's main-mast.
-- Besides, from the ashes of the burned scraps of the whale, a potent lye is readily made; and whenever any adhesiveness from the back of the whale remains clinging to the side, that lye quickly exterminates it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her sensibility was potent enough!
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This feeling was strengthened by actions of a direct and more potent nature on the part of Hurstwood.
-- Time was when both represented for her all that was most potent in earthly success.
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