The aim is to give people more power over their own lives.
目的是让人们更能主宰自己的生命。
牛津词典
He has the power to make things very unpleasant for us.
他掌握着我们的命运,可以把我们搞得狼狈不堪。
牛津词典
to have sb in your power (= to be able to do what you like with sb)
能支配某人
牛津词典
to take/seize/lose power
掌握 / 夺取 / 失掉政权
牛津词典
The present regime has been in power for two years.
现政权已经执政两年了。
牛津词典
The party came to power at the last election.
这个政党是在上次大选中当选执政的。
牛津词典
They are hoping to return to power.
他们希望重掌政权。
牛津词典
She interviewed six women who have reached positions of great power and influence...
她采访了6名身居高位,并且颇具影响力的女士。
In a democracy, power must be divided.
在民主政体中,权力必须分制。
Human societies have the power to solve the problems confronting them...
人类社会有能力解决面临的问题。
Fathers have the power to dominate children and young people...
父辈们有能力支配孩子们和年轻人的生活。
Your debt situation is only temporary, and it is within your power to resolve it...
你的债务情况只是暂时的,你有能力解决好。
Although it is not in his power to do so, he said he would rebuild the Air Base...
虽然这超出了他的能力范围,他还是说他会重建空军基地。
The Prime Minister has the power to dismiss and appoint senior ministers...
首相有权任免高级部长。
The police have the power of arrest...
警方有权拘捕。
In 1964 Labour came into power...
工党于1964年上台。
He first assumed power in 1970...
他于1970年首次执政。
In Western eyes, Iraq is a major power in an area of great strategic importance.
在西方人眼里,伊拉克是位于具有重要战略意义的地区的一个重要强国。
...the emergence of the new major economic power, Japan.
新兴重要经济强国日本的崛起
The Roadrunner had better power, better tyres, and better brakes.
“路行者”汽车的性能、轮胎和刹车都更好。
...massive computing power.
强大的计算能力
Nuclear power is cleaner than coal...
核能比煤清洁。
Power has been restored to most parts that were hit last night by high winds...
大部分昨晚遭大风袭击的地区已恢复供电。
The 'flywheel' battery, it is said, could power an electric car for 600 miles on a single charge...
据说“飞轮”电池充电一次就能驱动电动汽车行驶600英里。
The planes are powered by Rolls Royce engines.
这些飞机由劳斯莱斯公司制造的发动机提供动力。
...large power tools, such as chainsaws.
大型电动工具,如链锯
...a power drill.
电钻
Any number to the power of nought is equal to one.
任何数的0次方等于1。
The powers that be, in this case the independent Television Association, banned the advertisement altogether...
掌权的,在这件事中即独立的电视协会,干脆禁播了那则电视广告。
The powers that be may keep us from building a house just where we want to.
当局可能会阻止我们随意建房屋。
These teams are gaining more power to run their own affairs.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文When governments lose their control on power, law and order begin to disintegrate.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文In her experience, people in positions of power or people in finance or engineering do not tend to like the sound of the word.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文From her description, Chinese medicine sounded as if it had magic power that worked wonders.
2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section AIn the last seven years, Americans have grown more pessimistic about the power of education to lead to success.
2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section CIn the United States, the governor of a state has the power to change a sentence from the death penalty to life in prison.
2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section CItaly boasts more UNESCO World Heritage sites than any other country in the world, granting it considerable power and influence within the organization.
2018年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section BMaybe car manufacturers should have some responsibility in limiting the power of their engines.
2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section BOne of the student inventors, Camellia Rupcich, says the device changes the energy released from the plant into low-level power to charge phones.
2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力Research findings increasingly show the power of food to treat or reverse diseases, but that does not mean that diet alone is always the solution, or that every illness can benefit substantially from dietary changes.
2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BThey can recognize power and know how to use it.
2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section Bwithout upgrades and new capacity, bridges, roads and power systems are unable to cope with expanding populations.
2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section CTechnological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal .
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Psychological research shows we consistently underestimate our mental powers.
出自-2017年6月听力原文In just the past few weeks, the world has witnessed the destructive power of earthquakes in Indonesia, typhoons in the Philippines, and the destructive sea waves that struck Samoa and neighboring islands.
出自-2016年6月听力原文find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the 118 power to regulate for plain packaging.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Instead, some in Africa and Asia are seeing their first lightbulbs illuminated by the power of sunlight stored in batteries.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文In emerging economies, rural communities are bypassing the wires and wooden poles that spread power.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文To test the polluting power of fulmars, researchers collected samples of deposit from eleven ponds on Devon Island.
出自-2016年12月听力原文Small wonder that an Indian legend described Devils Tower as being formed by supernatural powers.
出自-2016年12月听力原文Canadian scientists have found a worrisome new example of the power that birds have to spread stuff around.
出自-2016年12月听力原文Whether it is a transition from imported to domestic oil or from coal-powered electricity production to natural-gas power plants, politicians love to talk big.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline-powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light, understanding energy system inertia and momentum can help you decide whether their plans are feasible.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文When investors put up money to build, say, a nuclear power plant, they expect to earn that money back over the planned life of the plant, which is typically between 40 and 60 years.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文The power of such simple psychology in fighting climate change is attracting attention across the political establishment.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文Some coal power plants in the United States have operated for more than 70 years! The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson River, and it went into commercial service in 1898.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文It is one thing to say that we are going to shift 30 percent of our electricity supply from, say, coal to nuclear power in 20 years.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文Chetty has not yet issued a comprehensive analysis of the relative predictive power of each of these factors.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文But it was the ones that mentioned the actions of neighbours that drove down power use.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文That’s energy in all forms--oil, gas, coal, nuclear, solar and even wind power.
出自-2015年12月听力原文According to college folklore, a well-turned essay has the power to seduce (诱惑) an admissions committee.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文Another question invites them to write about the importance (to them, again) of diversity―a word that has assumed magic power in American higher education
出自-2013年12月阅读原文In the developed world, women lag behind men in pay and political power.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文Give women more political power
出自-2013年12月阅读原文Energy to power machinery, both on the farm and in the storage and processing facilities, adds to the energy total, which currently represents about 3.1% of annual global energy consumption.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文Stacked near the checkout counters, and as colorful as a Fisher-Price toy, is a not-so-serious-looking power tool: a battery-operated saw-and-drill combination.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文Because so many of our modern technologies and services depend on oil, nations, corporations, and institutions that control the trade in oil exercise extraordinary power
出自-2013年6月阅读原文We learn from the passage that in today's world, whoever monopolizes the oil market will be able to exercise extraordinary power.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文Goals with financial rewards have strong motivational power.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books, Robert Darn ton, the head of Harvard University's library, argued that because such books are a common resource – the possession of us all – only public, not-for-profit bodies should be given the power to control them.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文This settlement hands Google the power - but only with the agreement of individual rights holders – to exploit its database of out-of-print books
出自-2011年12月阅读原文make full use of the power of its search engine
出自-2011年12月阅读原文Academic studies have found no evidence so far that older voters have used their power at the ballot box to push for policies that specifically benefit them, though if in future there are many more of them they might start doing so.
出自-2010年12月阅读原文Sting in the tail Ashby Plant is one of a number of psychologists who seized on Obama's candidacy to test hypotheses about the power of role models
出自-2010年6月阅读原文He chose colors and styles known to communicate power and influence.
出自-2013年12月听力原文They are believed to communicate power and influence
出自-2013年12月听力原文By describing the destructive power of earthquakes.
出自-2010年6月听力原文"Supplying power to trains in this way would offer the shortest distance from well to wheels," he says, "with the least amount of energy lost."
2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CHe and other scientists say there are basically two options to replacing fossil fuels: generating energy with renewables or embracing nuclear power.
2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section CHere is the most malignant threat to our personal freedom, particularly as the balance of power in the workplace has been shifted so dramatically from worker to boss.
2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CIn emerging economies, rural communities are bypassing the wires and wooden poles that spread power.
2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section CIn reflection, my firm belief in the power of the brand was naive, not to mention a bit snobby.
2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section BMore of them, though, will skip those calculations altogether and just power through the holidays into 2017: More than half of American workers don't use up all of their allotted vacation days each year.
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section CMPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the power to regulate for plain packaging.
2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section CPower tool maker DeWalt partners with companies, such as Lowes and Napa Auto Parts, to collect old tools at their stores for recycling.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section BRarely has there been a better example of the power of attitude, one of our most powerful psychological tools.
2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section CTechnological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal (地热).
2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BThe combination of computational power and engineering advances will eventually enable lower-cost in-home care for the disabled, widespread use of driverless cars that may reduce drunk- and distracted-driving accidents and countless home and service-indus
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section AThey may have a home to shelter themselves, but it does not have power supply, a telephone or plumbing.
2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section CThey worry that the adolescent peer group has the power to push its members into behavior that is foolish and even dangerous.
2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section BWhen you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline -powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light
2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BAdam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people's powers of attention.
2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文But they do come to the text with a few biases (偏向): their reading of Henry v minimizes his misuse of power.
2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文I don't know how many people would have done that; they would have listened to their agents or the studio powers.
2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文I was now fascinated by the idea of poetry, words that had the power to make or break a person's world.
2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文Internet companies' control of data gives them enormous power.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文It can be concluded from the passage that "patty poem" leads the writer to discover the power of poetry.
2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设Jack was working in the lab when the power cut occurred.
2016年高考英语北京卷 单项选择 原文More wind power stations will spring up to meet the demand for clean energy.
2019年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文On september 11, 1933, famous physicist Ernest Rutherford stated, with confidence, "anyone who expects a source of power in the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine."
2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文Other cultures may use silence in other ways, particularly when dealing with conflicts among people or in relationships of people with different amounts of power.
2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文Some experts say that women will become more effective managers than men because they have the power to reach common goals in a way that traditional male managers cannot.
2016年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel.
2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文The steam-powered printing press was still in its early stages; the literacy rate in england was under 50%.
2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文The studio powers didn't like his agent.
2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 选项Then there's the kind of popularity that appears in adolescence: status born of power and even dishonorable behavior.
2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文They are potential powers we possess: energy, skill, sound judgment, creative ideas — even physical strength greater than most of US realize.
2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文They have a different kind of superpower that all of US possess: the power to make a difference in the lives of others.
2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文They have got the power to change the world.
2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项This development was only possible with the introduction of electric-powered engines and lifts.
2017年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文This was the power that music in the classroom could have.
2015年高考英语湖南卷 完形填空 原文We are so fond of our high intelligence that we assume that when it comes to brain power, more must be better.
2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文You can plant a tree, make a meal with locally grown vegetables, or save power — the possibilities are endless.
2019年高考英语北京卷 语法填空 原文Since our chief business with them is to enable them to share in a common life we cannot help considering whether or no we are forming the powers which will secure this ability.
出自-2009年考研翻译原文Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure family perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc.
出自-2009年考研翻译原文The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after he has turned it on.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文Now the company is suddenly claiming that the 2002 agreement is invalid because of the 2006 legislation, and that only the federal government has regulatory power over nuclear issues.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the word.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文The Constitutional principles that Washington alone has the power to.
出自-2013年考研阅读原文The 8-0 objection to President Obama trues on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as “a shocking assertion assertion of federal executive power”.
出自-2013年考研阅读原文Some powers do belong exclusively to the federal government,and control of citizenship and the borders is among them.
出自-2013年考研阅读原文At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.
出自-2015年考研阅读原文The potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giants.
出自-2018年考研阅读原文The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.
出自-2018年考研阅读原文"The valuable examples which they furnish of the power of self-help, of patient purpose, resolute working and steadfast integrity, issuing in the formation of truly noble and manly character, exhibit," wrote Smiles, " what it is in the power of each to ac
2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡAnd yet, John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.
2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡAs such, it needed to appreciate the economic realities, the social contexts and power relations in which each epoch stood.
2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡAt a time when Thomas piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.
2015年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡBut a boost in the storage capacity of batteries is making their ability to keep power flowing around the clock more likely.
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡBut in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their li
2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡBut it can be done: Glasgow's year as European capital of culture can certainly be seen as one of complex series of factors that have turned the city into the power of art, music and theatre that it remains today.
2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡBut on the more important matter of the Constitution,the decision was an 8-0 defeat for the Administration's effort to upset the balance of power between the federal government and the states.
2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡBut that message did not play well with many in Iowa, where wind turbines dot the fields and provide 36 percent of the state's electricity generation – and where tech giants like Microsoft are being attracted by the availability of clean energy to power t
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡBy the time a problem has been addressed and remedied it may have vanished in the marketplace, to be replaced by new abuses of power.
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡCompetition law appears to be the only way to address these imbalances of power.
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡDuring the Renaissance, the great minds of nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei demonstrated the power of scientific study and discovery.
2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡIn a recent speech in Lowa, he dismissed wind power as an unreliable energy source.
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡIn both cases, we need a rebalancing of power.
2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡIn March, for the first time, wind and solar power accounted for more than 10 percent of the power generated in the US, reported the US Energy Information Administration.
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡIn Scotland, for example, wind turbines provide enough electricity to power 95 percent of homes.
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡInstead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.
2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡStereotypes associated with obesity include laziness, lack of will power, and lower prospects for success.
2014年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section ⅠThe 8-0 objection to President Obama turns on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as "a shocking assertion of federal executive power".
2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡThe conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont's only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.
2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡThe Constitutional principles that Washington alone has the power to "establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization" and that federal laws precede state laws are non-controversial.
2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡThe Labour party has recently announced that it will retain a large part of the coalition's spending plans if it returns to power.
2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡThe move to renewables is picking up momentum around the world: They now account for more than half of new power sources going on line.
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡThe potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giant.
2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡThe power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡThe State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first
2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡThe younger they learn how computers think, how to coax the machine into producing what they want 一 the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that 一 the better.
2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡThey gave justices permanent positions so they would be free to upset those in power and have no need to cultivate political support.
2012年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section ⅠThey had pushed the agency to designate the bird as "endangered, " a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats.
2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡThrough experiments and observation, social scientists like Dr. Berning have learned that there is power in tying certain behaviors to habitual cues through ruthless advertising.
2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱtim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, points to a study in the early 1980s that divided undergraduates into two groups: some were advised to set out monthly goals and study activities; others were told to plan activit
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡWhen women do break through to the summit of corporate power—as, for example, Sheryl Sandberg recently did at Facebook—they attract massive attention precisely because they remain the exception to the rule.
2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡWhile the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping hags and straws, we're ignoring the balance of power that implies that as "consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as "citizens" hole our
2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ"the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"
"the power of his love saved her"
"his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade"
"danger heightened his powers of discrimination"
"being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"
"during his first year in office"
"during his first year in power"
"the power of the president"
"the mysterious presence of an evil power"
"may the force be with you"
"the forces of evil"
"an oil baron"
"The gasoline powers the engines"
这些名词均有"力"之意。