powerful是什麽意思

powerful

英 ['paʊəfʊl; -f(ə)l] 美 ['paʊɚfl]

powerful (adj.): c. 1400, from power (n.) + -ful. Meaning "of great quality or number" is from 1811; colloquial sense of "exceedingly" (adv.) is from 1822. Related: Powerfully. Thornton ("American Glossary") notes powerful as "Much used by common people in the sense of very," along with monstrous and cites curious expressions such as devilish good, monstrous pretty (1799), dreadful polite, cruel pretty, abominable fine (1803), "or when a young lady admires a lap dog for being so vastly small and declares him prodigious handsome" (1799).

1. The government wilted in the face of such powerful pressure.: 政府麵對如此大的壓力，失去了信心。

2. The social cachet of some form of qualification in India is powerful.: 在印度，具有某種資格享有巨大的社會威望。

3. The once-powerful post unions have been cut down to size.: 一度很強勢的郵政聯盟已經威風不再。

4. Ferries are very powerful and manoeuvrable compared to cargo ships.: 與貨船相比，渡船馬力大而且易操縱。

5. In some works, flowers take on a powerful emblematic quality.: 在一些作品中，花具有強烈的象征意義。