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At the bottom of every sense of 'power' you can picture one thing: the capacity to make something happen — the strength or ability to act and to have an effect. Aim that capacity at people and it becomes control; aim it at machines and it becomes energy.

可以想成 power 底下永遠藏著同一件事:能讓某件事發生的「能耐」——有力氣、有本事去做、去造成影響。把這份能耐對…更多收起可以想成 power 底下永遠藏著同一件事:能讓某件事發生的「能耐」——有力氣、有本事去做、去造成影響。把這份能耐對著人,就成了控制與權力;對著機器,就成了驅動的能量;對著數字,就成了一再相乘的倍增。全都是「能做、能影響」這股力量的不同去向。

原始詞典資料30 筆記錄

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Powernoun詞源 1

  • 1

    A button of a computer, a video game console, or similar device, that when pressed, causes the device to be either shut down or powered up.

Powername詞源 2

  • 1

    A surname.

    • Although US officials have been sounding the alarm about the imminent risk of famine in the war-torn strip, USAID Administrator Samantha Power is the first official to publicly agree with an assessment that famine is already taking place.

powernoun/ˈpaʊ̯ə̯/

  • 1

    The ability to do or undergo something.

    • He has lost the power to speak.
    • On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines.
  • 2

    The ability to coerce, influence, or control.

    • The proportion of female colleagues in the Hsinchu County Government and its affiliated units has reached 61%. “Women Power” is the power behind over half of the services provided by the county government.
  • 3

    The ability to coerce, influence, or control.

    • the power of the written word
    • An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.
  • 4

    The ability to coerce, influence, or control.

    • He's nominally president, but he does not have any real power.
    • “[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]”
  • 5

    The ability to coerce, influence, or control.

  • 6

    The ability to coerce, influence, or control.

    • In the 19th century, Britain and France were major colonial powers.
    • Britain is no longer the maritime power that it once was.
  • 7

    archaicThe ability to coerce, influence, or control.

    • The threatning words of duke Robert comming at the last to king Henries eares, caused him foorthwith to conceiue verie sore displeasure against the duke, in so much that he sent ouer a power of men into Normandie, which finding no great resistance, did much hurt in the countrie, by fetching and carieng spoiles and preies.
    • Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made, That leads to Pallace of my brothers life, Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not.
  • 8

    Strength, energy.

    • He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.
另外 14 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Strength, energy.

    • She's a power shopper; she knows all the best deals.
    • This high-spec computer is ideal for power users.
  • 10

    Strength, energy.

    • The power to haul the train is supplied by two huge locomotives.
  • 11

    Strength, energy.

    • After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days.
    • “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. […]”
  • 12

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsStrength, energy.

    • The kilowatt is a unit of power, equivalent to 1,000 joules of energy per second.
  • 13

    Strength, energy.

    • We need a microscope with higher power.
  • 14

    A large amount or number.

    • do a power of good
    • Don't you mind my snuffling a little—becuz we're in a power of trouble.
  • 15

    Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).

    • the mechanical powers
  • 16

    A tractor.

    • The set I'm making right now needs a power on it, but we don't have any tractors left in the yard.
  • 17

    engineeringmechanical-engineeringmechanicsA measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.

  • 18

    mathematicssciencesA product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x×x×⋯×x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.

  • 19

    mathematicssciencesset-theoryCardinality.

  • 20

    mathematicssciencesstatisticsThe probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.

  • 21

    biblicallifestylereligionIn Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.

  • 22

    A bonus point awarded for answering correctly before a certain part of the tossup is read.

powerverb/ˈpaʊ̯ə̯/

  • 1

    To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).

    • This CD player is powered by batteries.
  • 2

    To hit or kick something forcefully.

    • United keeper Edwin van der Sar was the unlikely provider as his clearance found Rooney, who had got ahead of last defender Richard Dunne, and the forward brilliantly controlled a ball coming from over his shoulder before powering a shot past Brad Friedel.
  • 3

    To enable or provide the impetus for.

    • Abdul Sattar Edhi came to Karachi as a poor man from an Indian village in 1947. Starting with a small pharmacy tent, his work rapidly expanded, powered by donations from ordinary citizens.
  • 4

    To move or advance with great force or speed.

    • Playing with freedom and no fear, Ashleigh Barty has powered into the Australian Open third round without even a coach. Barty clubbed China’s Yafan Wang 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday before revealing she had been largely flying solo during her charge to the last 32 for only the second time.

poweradj/ˈpaʊ̯ə̯/

  • 1

    Impressive.

    • Check out the POWER Mee Rebus & Lontong in this newly established Nasi Padang coffee shop at Market Street Carpark.
    • Their performance is very the Power!

powerintj/ˈpaʊ̯ə̯/

  • 1

    Used as a cheer to express support

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。